The unique thing about this amber is that it dates back  to the Uppermost Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Age, and the plant and insect life that is found in this amber were trapped 110,000,000 million years ago during the time of the Dinosaur. There is a prolific amount of insect life found in the amber and  as a result of  inspection and study by Dr. Grimaldi of the American Museum of Natural History some new species of Insect have been identified.

 Burmite was not produced for seventy years before the area where the source of the amber was rediscovered just recently. It is now being produced for a limited time. Since burmite must be mined by hand and shipped by primative methods ( see picture to the left ) before it can be shipped abroad we don't know when this amber supply may run out or the Burmese Gov't may stop all mining operations.