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   ocr: Laboratornes a around the world, though only about a dozen produce large quantities of amber, which vary in age from 300 million years to just several hundred thousand years old. The best preservation and greatest diversity of organisms comes from Dominican amber, mostly from mines in the mountains just north of Santiago. Dominican amber is 25 to 30 million years old and was formed not from pines or conifers as is commonly thought to be the main source of amber, but from an extinct species of tree in the living genus Hymenaed, which today are tropical canopy trees (in the pea family, 415