URU - 2012 - #029 - SERIE - DINAMIGE, MINING AND GEOLOGY

Uruguay - 2012 - DINAMIGE, Goverment Institute of Mining and Geology

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SERIE --- 1,10 EUR
FDC not Sent --- 2,20 EUR
FDC Sent on First Day --- 8,00 EUR
COVER Sent on First Day --- 6,00 EUR

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Issue information:

Country: Uruguay
Date: October 22nd, 2012
Printed: 15.000 copies of each one

Stamp Shape and Size: Rectangular [27 mm. x 39 mm.]
Perforation: Circular
Gum: Water Activated

Block Configuration: 25 stamps [5 x 5]
Block Shape and Size: Rectangular [Unknown Size]

FDC Type: Normal
FDC Shape and Size: Rectangular [165 mm. x 105 mm.]
Cover Shape and Size: Rectangular [238 mm. x 160 mm.]

Catalogue information:

Michel: No Data Available
Ivert: No Data Available
Scott: No Data Available
Stanley & Gibbons: No Data Available

Topics:

Issue:

This serie of an unique stamp was issued in commemoration of the 100 Years of the "Dirección Nacional de Minería y Geología (DINAMIGE)", that is the Goverment Institute of Mining and Geology of Uruguay, and that is dependent of the "Ministerio de Industría, Energía, y Minería" (MIEM)", that is the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining of this country.

The stamp was issued exactly the day when the DINAMIGE celebrates it centenary, as this institution was founded on October 22nd of 1912

The tasks of DINAMIGE, it organizational structure and it responsibilities were established by Executive Power Decree No. 190/997 of 4 June 1997.

In that decree it main responsabilities were set in: 1) To promote, regulate, control and supervise the exploitation, for economic purposes, of the mineral resources of the country; 2) To regulate and control the activities of prospecting and exploration developed outside the State; 3) To Keep updated the country geoscience and mining information; 4) To Manage the grant for concessions of exploitation.

In the design of the stamp, the focus is in a miner working with his pick, and wearing a helmet with flashlight. And the design is completed with a caricatuized pile of semiprecious stones at front, and a radiance, of the same colour of the stone, behind the worker.

The semiprecious stone of the pile, acording to the colour selected for it representation and the uruguayan production of that kind of materials, surely will be an Amethyst, a violet variety of quartz often used in jewelry, and which the best specimens cames from Uruguay.

Finally, the MIEM Logo, resembles the shape of a Flower, however, it was not confirmed that it represent that element of the Vegetal Kindom.

FDC:

The Cancelation of the FDC includes in his design a hammer and a pick, crossing each of its sticks, and surrounded by a circle of MIEM logos.

Coincidentally, or perhaps meaningfull, the design of the cancelation remembers the Hammer and sickle logo of the Communist Party.

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