CodyStones: Celebrity Stones

Gold and Silver in Quartz Stones and Jewelry

"I have seen the elephant!"

That was the cry of those lucky enough to have found gold!

This adventure of a lifetime can be shared today in the "New Gold Rush" - jewelry grade "all natural" gold and silver in quartz.

This particular gold and silver is the one of the West's biggest gold treasure story. The legend has been fueled by four major motion pictures over six decades, and in books, newspaper articles, and word of mouth for more than a century.

The list of participants in this legend is a Who's Who's of the Wild West: Geronimo, Buffalo Bill Cody to today's Rothchild's- all players in this romantic quest for nature's wealth.

Buffalo Bill Cody had made jewelry out of the extremely rich ore, found in the northern mountains of Tucson, Arizona. He was aware the value of the rock first popularized in the 1850s by Tiffany's.

CodyStone was named in honor of Buffalo Bill Cody. The stone is mined from the Cody Tunnel near Oracle, AZ. It is one of the very few sources of jewelry-grade gold and silver in quartz.

Extremely exotic and just as extremely expensive, CodyStone fetches roughly $4,000 an ounce for gold and $800 an ounce for silver. As grinding and smelting of gold increases, its value is also enhanced.

The stone is showcased in six museums nationwide and the Mining Hall of Fame.

These pieces of jewelry (right) were mined, designed and fabricated by Flint Carter, an emerging artist who is one of the few who actually creates jewelry from the ground up!

Each piece is available for purchase and includes a few articles on the legend of the stone.

Contact Flint Carter by phone at 520-825-3345 (mention the Cody Stone web site) for more information about these and other pieces and to learn more about the legend behind the Cody Stone.

Help preserve this vanishing history of the Old West and American Heritage through Flint Carter's Educational Exhibit and Museum.

Try finding silver and gold in quartz elsewhere and you might not see the elephant. It's that rare!

Exhibit on display at the Scouts Rest Ranch, North Platte, Nebraska.

These pieces of ore are from the original Cody-Dyer Mining and Milling Company Mine near Oracle, Arizona. Cody's mining endeavor began in the 1900s and is continued today by W. T. Flint Carter.

The bolo tie is made from CodyStone, named after Buffalo Bill Cody, in his honor, and is made from jewelry grade silver and gold in quartz stone. In 1902, Colonel D. B. Dyer, a former Indian agent, interested Cody in a mine prospect containing tungsten, gold and lead. The Cody-Dyer Mine was formed. Cody wrote on March 13, 1903 that the long-sought vein of ore had been struck after seven months of night and day drilling. The mine is in the region of the fabled Mine with the Iron Door, which inspired a novel by Harold Bell Wright.

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Purchase true gold and silver in quartz jewelry exclusively mined, designed and fabricated by Flint Carter. Call 520-825-3345

BRACELET Gold and Silver in Quartz with orange, pink and white matrix. Stone: 1 1/2" height, 1" width at widest edge. $1800.

RING Gold and Silver in Quartz ring size 11. 3/4" width, 1 1/8" height. $1200.

PENDENT Silver in Quartz, huge pendent and chain. 1 3/4" width at edges, 1 1/2" height. $1400.

About the Artist, Author sophisticated primitive! William Thomas Carter, "Flint" to his friends, is an artist and author born in 1947 in Danville, Illinois. After attending Danville High School, he served in Panama during the Vietnam conflict at the Latin American Headquarters Post. He received the National Defense and Good Conduct medals. Returning home, Flint attended Danville Junior College and later Southern Illinois University. Special interest in the design department, headed by Buckminster Fuller, inspired the building of Arizona's first solar heated and cooled museum. While in Arizona, Ted DeGrazia, whose work is well known in the commercial art world, was a mentor and friend. He was the inspiration for the outdoor theater "The Stage in the Sun," named in honor of DeGrazia's Gallery In The Sun. In 1988, "The Oracale Historian" published "The Story of Gold," a short story, followed by "The Legend," a brochure produced by SaddleBrooke Development Corp. At present, an accredited archeological discovery of a lost city involved in the Iron Door Mine legend is being documented for film and literary purposes. In 1995, a special collection of minerals, prehistoric and historic artifacts, art, jewelry and related memorabilia from Arizona's Canyon of Gold, Canada del Oro, was shown at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show at the TCC. The collection has premiered in the lobby entranceway of the Tucson Convention Center. This collection was shown for five years. Environmental accomplishments include a solar stucco design and a multi-million dollar industrial toxic site clean up. The Dixie Auto Parts Clean Up in Danville, spearheaded by Carter set a precedence which lead to the dredging of the Hudson River to remove PCBs- a dredging operation costing $50,000,000 - larger than the entire gold rush of 1849. Also, having secured placement for various historical pieces in museums nationwide, William Thomas Carter was instrumental in returning the war bonnet of Tasin, son of Cochise, to the Apaches at Fort Still, Oklahoma. Contact Flint Carter at 520-825-3345.