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Our family has a Spectrolite quarry in Ylämaa, Finland. We bought the quarry in 2003 and since then I’ve been working there with my son and my wife helps in production. The size the quarry is 10x50 meters. We have a workshop where we produce products not only from this raw material but from many other stones, gems, fossils and meteorites; mainly from Russia. During the portion process we excerpt, we saw, we polish and we do cabochons, polished slabs, pendants, jeweler boxes, eggs, spheres and many other things. We sell first-hand products for any taste preferences. Our stones are sold to the kind of people who love stones, gems, meteorites, fossils but also for jewelers, collectors, etc. Thank you for your time! Good luck with your bidding!

Andrey & Family

MAMMOTH

A mammoth is any species of an extinct genus of proboscidean (elephants and their extinct relatives), often with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long har. They lived from the Pliocene epoch from 4.8 million years ago to around 4,500 years ago. The word mammoth comes from the Russian mamont, probably in turn from the Vogu (Mansi) language.

Mammoth remains have been found in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. They are believed to have originally evolved in North Africa about 4.8 million years ago, during the Pliocene, where bones of Mammuthus africanavus have been found in Chad, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. Mammuthus subplanifrons, found in South Africa and Kenya, is also believed to be one of the oldest species (about 4 million years ago).

Despite their African ancestry, they are in fact more closely related to the modern Asian Elephant than either of the two African elephants (as both Mammuthus and Elephas also originated in Africa). The common ancestor of both mammoths and Asian elephants split from the line of African elephants in the Late Miocene about 6 - 7.3 million years ago, probably due to the uplift of East Africa and increasing aridity in the Middle East. The Asian elephants and mammoths diverged about half a million years later, i.e. 5.5 - 6.3 million years ago.

Around 700,000 years ago, the warm climate of the time deteriorated markedly and the savannah plains of Europe, Asia and North America gave way to colder and less fertile steppes. The southern mammoth consequently declined, being replaced across most of its territory by the cold-adapted steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii). This in turn gave rise to the woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius) around 300,000 years ago. Woolly mammoths were better able to cope with the extreme cold of the Ice Ages.    

DESCRIPTION OF THIS ITEM

• 30 pieces of a woolly mammoth tusk from Russia (Yakutia, Island Novaja Zemlja).
• weight: 32,0 g.
• coins size: 23 x 23 x 3 mm.
• 25,4 mm = 1"

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