Iron Door Mine

Minding for gold and abundance in the Catalina Mountains
Collecting attenuate stones from Mt. Lemmon
Flint Carter has been prospecting for gold, argent and quartz ores in the Santa Catalina mountains and abreast Mt. Lemmon for decades.
Carter is one of the few humans who stlll maintains a connected mining affirmation in the Santa Catalina Mountains. Carter has captivated two of the better operating mines on Mt. Lemmon.
The Catalina Mountains, just arctic of Tucson, contains not alone huge food of minerals, but a history intertwined with legend.
The adventure of the Lost City and Lost Mission, the Iron Door Mine, the bright history of Campo Bonito and Buffalo Bill Cody's gold abundance at the High Jinks Ranch, and added acceptance accept contributed to the acceptance of the mountains.
Collecting rocks and minerals from the Catalinas Mountains is not allowed, unless the beneficiary has a mining affirmation or it is clandestine deeded land.
Carter has calm bags of ores amd ancient admirable jewelry, tie clips, earrings, necklaces, rings and added pieces by request. Some of his plan aswell includes rock art- cut and able chips advised in acceptable arid and Southwest scenes. His items are in eight museums common and the Mining Hall of Fame.
Rock collectors who admire added attenuate specimens from the Catalina Mountains can acquaintance Flint for specific ores and rocks. Hunting for superior rocks in the Catalinas is Flint's specialty. He has captivated mining claims for bags of acreage of affluent acreage from the Catalinas to the BioSphere during the 1980s and 1990s. His Mt. Lemmon breadth mining backing accept extracted affluent deposits of minerals active abysmal in the mountains.
Carter's all-encompassing ability of mining in the area, accumulated with his aesthetic abilities to transform asperous rocks into adept stones and jewelry, is a attestation to the mining history of the Catalina Mountains.
Flint aswell has aggregate a huge ability of documents, acceptance and artifacts of the area. Share his acquaintance with a alternation of online autograph produced about the history and legends of the Catalina Mountains specialty.
Mining gold from the mountains for centuries
The Arizona Mining Association history of mining in Arizona letters that mining has been advancing for centuries in Arizona.
"The region's abundance aboriginal became credible in 1535 if Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his assembly appear audition tales of cities of gold in the region. Calling their finds the "Seven Cities of Cibola."...in 1582 if Antonio de Espejo appear on the affluence of the arena and the analysis of mines in what is today axial Arizona."
"Spain alternate to the arena in 1686, if the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino was assigned to the breadth accepted as Primeria Alta (upper acreage of the Pima Indians), which is now Northern Sonora and Southern Arizona. Four years after Kino entered abreast Arizona and accustomed the missions of Guevavi, Tumacacori, and San Xavier del Bac. Although Kino's accent was on missionary activity, there are letters of mining by the natives."
"In accession to mining getting done by the natives, the Spaniards aswell resumed mining. In his accounts of Pimeria Alta, Kino wrote, "many acceptable mines of gold and silver... abounding affluent veins now getting established." While it is believed he was autograph about Northern Sonora, he may accept been apropos to the breadth about Tubac, Arizona. This acceptance is based on the attendance of abounding alone Spanish mines in the Tubac-Tumacacori area, which were re-discovered if the Americans accustomed in 1848. "