Product	Origin:	Description:
Asphalt	USA	Natural, hard, thermoplastic hydrocarbon resin that is only found nowadays in the Unitah basin in Utah and that is digged in the mining industry.
Citrus Terpene	USA, Israel, Brazil.	Colourless to slightly yellow with a characteristic, aromatic odour.
Copal	The resin is produced in Indonesia (mainly on the island Celebes) and on the Philippines. The merchandise derives from the plant Agatis Alba / Agatis Damara. The trees are scratched and the oozing resin is collected. From the Philippines the goods are shipped from Manila, from Indonesia mostly from Ujung Pandang, sometimes also in transhipment via Jakarta or Singapore.	It is an aromatic, well-smelling resin. The good qualities are yellowish-whitish clean, the darker ones have dark segregation up to darker pieces, and are partly contaminated by pieces of the bark.
Damar Brown	The brown Damar is produced in Indonesia (mainly on the island Borneo) and in smaller quantities in India. The merchandise is harvested in larger pieces often from already decayed trees, mostly at the mouth of a river. Generally it is roughly scraped and gets into the market as Gum Damar brown Batu halfscraped.	Large to very large brownish pieces with a slight crust.
Damar White	The white Damar is produced in Indonesia and in smaller quantities in India. The mer-chandise is derived from the plant Shorea Wiesneri Staff from the family Dipterocar-paceae. Whitish to yellowish pieces. It reaches Europe by tranship-ment via Singapore or Jakarta.	Whitish to yellowish, nearly transparent pieces. The merchandise is sized from big pieces to dust. It sticks by keeping it in hands and has a low melting point (softening at 75 °C, at 100 °C thickened, at 150 °C fluid and clear). Slightly balsamic odour.
Gum Turpentine	Brazil, Portugal, PR China	Transparent, aromatic liquid.
Larch Turpentine	Italy and Austria (South and East Tyrol).	Transparent, gold yellow liquid, sometimes with a tinge of green (especially in case of fresh material).
Red Yacca Gum	Kangaroo Islands / Tasmania, Australia.	It is dark red natural resin which is dealt in the qualities coarse and fine but for the final use it is mostly powdered. In the past there was also a yellow yacca gum which was mainly used in the lacquer industry.
Turpentine Oil	PR China, Portugal, Indonesia, Russia / CIS-states	Transparent, aromatic liquid.
Venice Turpentine	Austria and Italy (South and East Tyrol).	Gold yellow, dark, honey-like mass.