By William "Flint" Carter
First popularized by Tiffany in the 1800's, this little-known, extremely valuable commodity of precious noble metals in the natural state could be the Gold Rush of the New Millennium!
The most popular is the beautiful yellow metal matrix in hard white quartz. Similar to diamonds, the hard quartz provides a strong and timeless durability, protecting the soft, precious, noble metals.
Due to thousands of years of mankind's efforts to extract pure gold from the rock by grinding the rock and destroying it, very little remains. Visible gold and silver in quartz is fetching 20 to 100 times the price of pure bullion, and is ever increasing in value.
Hygraders pay huge lease fees to major corporations for specimen collecting on a small scale, but with massive mining procedures the majority of the material is destroyed, as it was in past centuries.
A few small sources offer a variety of colors and types, but with no major amounts available. Usually collectors quickly acquire anything that hits the market.
Only two major commercial sources exist today: the 16-to-1 Mine in Califomia and the Gimpie Mine in Australia.
Recent opening of the old John J. Astor Mine, that was sealed when he went down with the TItanic, now offers a gold in pink quartz.
Celebrity Mine ownership with a provenance is now the new pick of collectors. The law of supply and demand is calculated in millions of tons of destruction in mining worldwide, ever increasing the rarity and value.
Recent reports by reputable sources state that with increasing demand and availability, prices are becoming almost prohibitive for the average consumer.
No known source of silver in quartz is known. Market price fetches $5 per carat ($11,350 per pound), better
than twice the price of pure gold bullion.
Many exotic stones will come and go, but the precious noble metals in their native quartz embody the natural origin of the two oldest commodities since the dawn of civilization: gold and silver.
 Historian Flint Carter
About the Artist, Author
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.
Contact Flint Carter at 520-289-4566. Read more about Flint Carter, his jewelry, art and stories of the Old West and Iron Door Mine.
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Cody Stone Jewelry by Flint Carter
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Purchase true gold and silver in quartz jewelry exclusively mined, designed and fabricated by Flint Carter. Call 520-289-4566
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Gold & Silver from the Catalina Mts.
$20-$25,000
CODY STONE Sunrise Set, two pieces, $10,000 each, 14k, Michael Garcia & Flint Carter artist ORIGINAL. Can be seen at The Oracle Inn Steakhouse, Oracle, AZ. Only five Michael Garcia pieces remaining.
OTHER CODY STONE JEWELRY AVAILABLE! Prices range from $20 to $25,000. Call Flint Carter at 520-289-4566 for more information. Mention the Iron Door web site.
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 RING
Gold and Silver in Quartz ring size 11. 3/4" width, 1 1/8" height. $1200.
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 PENDENT
Silver in Quartz, huge pendent and chain. 1 3/4" width at edges, 1 1/2" height. $1400.
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 BRACELET
Gold and Silver in Quartz with orange, pink and white matrix. Stone: 1 1/2" height, 1" width at widest edge. $1800.
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Cody Stone is mined and designed as jewelry grade gold and silver in quartz from the Old West. Cody stone specimens and hand made items are on display at the Oracle Inn Steakhouse & Saloon in Oracle, Arizona. Get a tour of the area, see artifacts of the Iron Door Mine and Southwest, and mine for gold with Flint Carter. The only source for Cody Stone. Call Flint at 520-289-4566. Mention the Iron Door web site.
"Search for the Iron Door" CD
Listen to seven songs and ballads on CD about the Iron Door Mine, the Santa Catalina Mountains, the Old West and Flint Carter. $9.95. Call 520-289-4566 for more information and to purchase directly. Mention the Iron Door web site.
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Iron Door Mine Legend Tour
Explore displays of over 1,000 Old West artifacts and specimens from the surrounding area with Flint Carter Mine for gems and learn about Western legends. Call Fint at 520-289-4566. Mention the Iron Door web site.
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"MacKenna's Gold" (1969)
Starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sherif
The story of the Iron Door Mine. Attempting to do for Westerns what his Guns of Navarone had done for World War II action epics, director J. Lee Thompson crafted Mackenna's Gold as a lavish, absurdly ambitious variation on Erich Von Stroheim's Greed, resulting in a last-gasp Western so eager to encompass the genre's traditions that it turns into a big, silly, wildly entertaining mess. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com.
DVD edition of MacKenna's Gold . Studio: Sony Pictures. DVD format. Release Date: July 11, 2000. Run Time: 128 minutes.
Poster from Mackenna's Gold - Movie Poster - 11 x 17. This poster measures approx. 11 x 17. Rolled and shipped in a sturdy tube. This poster is from the movie Mackenna's Gold (1969).
Printed book edition of Mackenna's Gold A Five-time Spur Award-winning Author. Somewhere in 100,000 square miles of wilderness was the fabled Lost Canyon of Gold. With his dying breath, an ancient Apache warrior entrusted Glen Mackenna with the location of the lode that would make any man - or woman - rich beyond their wildest dreams. Halfbreed renegade and captive girl, mercenary soldier and thieving scout - brave or beaten, innocent or evil, they'd sell their very souls to possess Mackenna's gold. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Avon Books (Mm) (June 1988).
Watch video on-demand from Amazon.com of MacKenna's Gold .
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The Mine with the Iron Door: A Romance (1936)
Movie Poster from the 1936 film The Mine with the Iron Door - Movie Poster - 11 x 17 Poster for the Mine with the Iron Door movie. Stars Richard Arlen, Ceclia Parker and Henry B. Walthall. Poster measures approx. 11 x 17. Rolled and shipped in a sturdy tube. This poster is from The Mine with the Iron Door (1936).
Printed Edition of The Mine with the Iron Door. (The Collected Works of Harold Bell Wright - 18 Volumes) (Library Binding) Library Binding: 338 pages. Publisher: Classic Publishers, Language: English. ISBN: 158201891X.
Digital CD Edition of Mine with the Iron Door: A Romance, The (CD-ROM Edition) . The CD-ROM contains 338 pages. Publisher: Classic Books; 1923 edition (December 15, 2007).
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