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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. |
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Artigas counts on a modern and advanced center where it is
developed the Program of Fortification of the Arts, Crafts
and Offices (PAOF), that count on the financing of the
European Union and the National Administration of Public
Education.
The PAOF works in a building totally equipped with
technology of last generation, destined to the three artisan
areas that bear direct relation to the resources from the
department of Artigas, textile, leathers and Semiprecious
Stones.
At the present time, Artigas not only exports rough stones
but also offers capacitation to craftsmen and produces unique and 100% of
Artigas final
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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.
 The 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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