The Eastern Republic of Uruguay ( (The Romance language
spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain)
Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay) is a small country
located in southern (A continent in the western hemisphere
connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama) South
America. It is bordered by (The largest Latin American
country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the
world; located in the central and northeastern part of South
America; world's leading coffee exporter) Brazil to the
north, the (Click link for more info and facts about Uruguay
River) Uruguay River to the west, the estuary of the (An
estuary between Argentina and Uruguay) Río de la Plata (literally
"Silver River", but commonly known in English as "River
Plate") to the southwest, with (A republic in southern South
America; second largest country in South America) Argentina
on the other bank of both, and finally the South (The 2nd
largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west
from Europe and Africa on the east) Atlantic Ocean to the
southeast. About one-half of its people live in the capital
and largest city, (The capital and largest city of Uruguay;
a cosmopolitan city and one of the busiest ports in South
America) Montevideo.
The nation is the second-smallest country in South America
and is one of the most politically and economically stable.
History of the agates and amethysts in Artigas - Uruguay.
In century XVIII the kings of Spain already were interested
in these semiprecious stones. In 1850 the Germans Becker and
Schuch find agates and amethysts in the zone of the Catalan.
Only agates were exported in the beginning: the interest by
amethysts just began in the first decades of the 900. With
the warlike conflicts that characterized half of century XX,
as much the production as the export seriously was affected.
The certain thing is that this natural wealth was exported
exclusively in gross, to very low prices, until the
Seventies. It is by those years that the government
stimulates his export and industrialization, arising several
quarries in the places where the "old canteristas" had made
diggings by hand. By that time, in Artigas and Montevideo
they appear the first factories where the agates and
amethysts are carved incorporating to them added value. As
much the quarry production as the one of the factories goes
in ascent until principles of the decade of the 90. The Gulf
War of the 92, produced a recession in the consumption
markets and drastically lowered the production as much of
agates as of amethysts in gross. Although the sector has
rounded up something, it is very far from having recovered.
The loss of the prices forced by the synthetic amethyst, the
high mechanization mainly in facetado and the appearance of
new producing markets causes that the recovery of the sector
is slower. The adjustment to a changing world is the slogan
of the moment. The present tendency is of slow but
maintained recovery of the consumption markets.
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