According to the color, transparency, causes and containing objects, amber can be divided into the following categories.

Cherry amber: Colors like blood, also known as cherry or red amber.

Lemon amber: lemon or gold transparent color, aromas of golden light, transparency is very high.

Beeswax amber: beeswax is translucent and opaque amber, have a variety of colors, including gold and brown color, yellow, yellow is most common.

Insect amber: Amber containing remains of animals, plants, which contain the remains of small animals such as mosquitoes, bees, flies, they are most expensive.

Stone amber: there is a certain petrochemical, greater hardness than other amber.

Blue amber: Blue amber is very rare, high valuable, and under normal circumstances, blue amber does not look blue, but Brown and a little purple, it will appear blue, brown, purple, green etc under different lights.

Green amber: green amber, total of about 2%.

White amber: also the most rare color, amber-1%~2% per cent of total amber.

How to distinguish the real amber and the fake amber?

1. natural amber fire test will be issued when a natural pine fragrance, friction can adsorb small bits of paper.

2. Natural amber float at 1:4 in salt water, and fake amber will sink, however pressed amber with very low value, which does not consider as nature amber in China, can also float in the salt water.

3. Real amber is neutral gem, it is not too hot wearing on summer, and not too cold wearing on winter. Glass or plastic imitations will feel ice.

4. The bubbles in nature amber are mostly round, and uneven appearing inside the amber.

5. Amber beads make very soft and slightly dull sound when rube them in the hand. Plastic or resin make crispy sound.