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Mine
Muzo, Coscuez and Chivor. Titles and alliances held at source for three generations.
Titles and alliances
From source
Colombian emeralds, traced stone by stone.
to certainty.
Scroll to enter the stone
Every emerald begins somewhere
Boyacá, Colombia. Four levels down, the record of the stone is kept.
The declaration
This was never meant to be a commodity.
For centuries the emerald carried territory, memory and bloodline. It passed through empires, royal courts and sacred ceremonies. In modern markets it was reduced to carats and price per gram.
The house was not built to sell stones. It was built to keep their record: born in Muzo, shaped by lineage, documented from the seam to the invoice.
Some things cannot be manufactured. They can only be found: in the earth, in a tradition, in the hands of someone who learned from someone who remembered.
Not a gemstoneAn archive
Not a productA work
Not a purchaseA legacy
Level I · Crown
The Maison
A house born from territory.
Not a company with an about page: a living house, three generations at the source. In the mountains of Boyacá, Colombian emeralds formed in black shale, in veins of calcite and pyrite, a geology unlike that of any other emerald deposit. A territory where nature, time and human knowledge converge.
80
Years at the source.
Generational knowledge in the Colombian emerald districts. Access built through relationships at source: goods that do not necessarily enter the open international market.
Muzo
Western belt
5°32′N 74°06′W
Coscuez
Western belt
10 km north of Muzo
Chivor
Eastern belt
4°53′N 73°22′W
Three districts, two belts, one cordillera. Each with its own geology and its own green.
We do not sell stones. We place sixty million years of Colombian territory in your hand, with its name, its seam, and its story intact.
Founder, CINTARA
Level II · Girdle
The Covenant
From mine to market: one house holds the chain.
A covenant, not a policy: between the house and the land, between the house and the communities of Muzo, between the collector and the origin of what they hold. Each stone is traced from the district where it was mined to the invoice it leaves with. Open any photograph to look closer.
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Rough
Selection at source. Before the cut, there is the stone: its colour, crystal and potential read in the hand.
Selection at source · potential
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Cut
Bogotá workshop. Twenty-five years of precision cutting by our own master cutters; the cut follows the stone.
Bogotá workshop · precision
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Record
Certificate of origin and digital provenance. Origin, weight, cut and treatment documented from the seam to the invoice.
Certificate of origin · digital provenance
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Market
Jewellers, wholesalers and private commissions. Colombian at source, global by reach.
Jewellers · wholesalers
Use the arrows, or swipe, to move along the girdle
The disclosure standard
What the collector has a right to know.
A stone is accompanied by its record, not by a claim. The house does not accelerate extraction for commercial pressure, and it does not withhold what the loupe can see.
- IOrigin, stated. District, belt and host rock, from the seam.
- IITreatment, disclosed. None, minor or moderate, written on the record before the stone is offered.
- IIICustody, unbroken. Mine, rough, cut, record, market: one house holds the chain.
- IVInclusions, kept. The jardín is the stone's fingerprint. It is read, not erased.
Muzo as a living place
Muzo is a place, not a source.
Three generations at the source leave a responsibility to the territory. These are commitments kept in Muzo, not campaigns: stated here once, without the language of marketing.
- Museum Casa de la EsmeraldaA house for the stone's history, in the town where it is found.
- Rural libraryBooks and reading for the children of the mining districts.
- Cultural parkOpen ground for the community, on the valley floor.
- Elder programmesCare and company for the miners who held the knowledge first.
Level III · Pavilion
Heritage
Before human hands
Geological time
Tectonic collision, pressure, mineral infusion. The stone slept beneath the Andes for sixty million years. In Muzo, emeralds are not discovered; they are revealed.
Pre-Columbian
The Muisca
To the people of the high Bogotá plateau the stone was not precious because it was rare. It was a fragment of the divine, buried with chieftains as a guide for the passage into the next world.
Colonial to present
Courts, then custody
From the Conquest the emerald travelled to the royal courts of Europe and Asia. Today the house keeps it where it began: in Muzo, with its name and its record.
To know the stone means knowing how to read it.
- Colour
- Crystal
- Formation
- Zoning
- Inclusions
- Origin
Six readings, in a fixed order, before a stone is bought, cut or offered.
25
Years of precision cutting.
Bogotá, our own master cutters. Experience serving important jewellery maisons and auction houses. Each stone is studied before the first facet; the cut follows the stone.
Level IV · Culet
The Emerald Art Concept
CINTARARecord No. 001
- Origin
- Muzo · Boyacá · Colombia
- Weight
- 4.12 ct
- Cut
- Emerald cut · Bogotá workshop
- Treatment
- Minor · disclosed
- Host rock
- Black shale · calcite vein
- Document
- Certificate · Libro CINTARA
From mineral to meaning: the emerald as a work, not a product. Each stone is traced from the district where it was mined to the invoice it leaves with. Its record (certificate, specimen card and the Libro CINTARA) travels with it. Laboratory reports on request.
- Stone history
- Proof of origin
- The Libro CINTARA
- Exhibition system
- Certifications
- Muzo, the community
Six elements accompany every work
Out of the stone
Opus
A body of works, numbered with intention.
Opus, not product: cut stones, unset crystals, pairs and suites, each with its number in the Libro. No prices are shown publicly; availability is by private inquiry. For those who hold the stone:
- Jewellers
- Cut stones, singles and pairs, calibrated on request
- Wholesalers
- Parcels and suites, every quality, fine goods first
- Private commissions
- Stones selected and cut for a particular piece
Global reach
Colombian at source. Global by reach.
Bogotá, and the markets it serves.
Mexico, Monaco, Taiwan, China, and now the Gulf. Stones travel with their records; the house holds the chain from the district to the invoice.
- BogotáSource and workshop
- MexicoClient market
- MonacoClient market
- TaiwanClient market
- ChinaClient market
- BahrainJewellery Arabia 2026
Jewellery Arabia 2026
Bahrain · 24–28 November
The threshold
Private Access
Access to the stones, the archive and the workshop is by application, not by catalogue.
We are looking for people who collect meaning, not status. If that describes you, we would like to meet. Stones are shown in daylight, with their records.
Begin a conversationCorrespondence
Write with a date and a city; a reply follows within two working days. Laboratory reports on request.