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About
StoneSemiprecious.com
StoneSemiprecious.com provides and exporting minerals obtained
of the prestigious mines of Artigas-Uruguay, that works with minerals like Agate, Amethyst, Citrine,
Carnelian, Jaspe and Quartz.
Our intention is to be able to provide to our clients exclusive
products to him and of appreciated quality.
Uruguay is pais net Farming but within their natural resources their
Semiprecious Stones stand out that they have a location of prestige
in the world-wide market.
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Artigas State (Departamento), is in the north of the country
located in the border with Brazil and Argentina.
The subsoil of the department of Artigas is constituted by basalts
in a 92% of its surface.
The main unit is the Arapey formation, equivalent to Serra Geral, is
a succession of subaerial basaltic spills of individual power
between 10 and 60 meters, interbedded with arenaceous levels of
Aeolian that rarely exceed a meter of thickness.
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.
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