Uruguay Minerals
We are a company dedicated to the processing and exportation of semi precious stones, directly from the prestigiousmines of Artigas, Uruguay.
We want to show you all the products that we are processing and exporting to different parts of the globe.
We count with a endless stock of diverse and fascinating minerals.
We work with the finest selection of Agates, Amethysts, and Citrines, to create our entire line of products, distinguished for their high quality and unsurpassable presentation, recognized worldwide.
Mining in Artigas, Uruguay, started in the middle of 19th century.
At the beginning, miners were divided into small groups, each of them with a long piece of iron thrust to the ground, so when they heard some crystal noise, they started to dig in that place. They used to make big holes about 3 meters wide, and 3 or 4 meters deep. After they have got the stones, they sent them to Germany to the Idar-oberstein city.
Exportation quantity at that time was not very much per year; just in the early 80s, mining companies started to buy small machines to work in the land according to the demand of their products from the different countries. These machines worked from 1980 to 1999, so the production continued for 19 years.
The difference was in the destiny of these productions: Brazil imported more than other countries. At the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese market was opened with the rough Agate stone. When this happened, many other companies started to change these smaller machines to bigger machines to supply the demand of this market.
Nowadays, there is a very good and stable marketing with China, Europe, USA and other countries that started to develop more and more businesses. Since 1998, the mining companies started to work on rocks and used dynamite in order to make tunnels to get Amethyst stones. When they started to work this way, different types of Calcites appeared in the Amethyst mines.
http://www.uruguayanminerals.com/index.aspx#.WXO-L4TyuUk
We want to show you all the products that we are processing and exporting to different parts of the globe.
We count with a endless stock of diverse and fascinating minerals.
We work with the finest selection of Agates, Amethysts, and Citrines, to create our entire line of products, distinguished for their high quality and unsurpassable presentation, recognized worldwide.
Mining in Artigas, Uruguay, started in the middle of 19th century.
At the beginning, miners were divided into small groups, each of them with a long piece of iron thrust to the ground, so when they heard some crystal noise, they started to dig in that place. They used to make big holes about 3 meters wide, and 3 or 4 meters deep. After they have got the stones, they sent them to Germany to the Idar-oberstein city.
Exportation quantity at that time was not very much per year; just in the early 80s, mining companies started to buy small machines to work in the land according to the demand of their products from the different countries. These machines worked from 1980 to 1999, so the production continued for 19 years.
The difference was in the destiny of these productions: Brazil imported more than other countries. At the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese market was opened with the rough Agate stone. When this happened, many other companies started to change these smaller machines to bigger machines to supply the demand of this market.
Nowadays, there is a very good and stable marketing with China, Europe, USA and other countries that started to develop more and more businesses. Since 1998, the mining companies started to work on rocks and used dynamite in order to make tunnels to get Amethyst stones. When they started to work this way, different types of Calcites appeared in the Amethyst mines.
http://www.uruguayanminerals.com/index.aspx#.WXO-L4TyuUk
