The Rock Exchange

This is an outreach facet of a market expansion project directly related to the falling market value of precious metals. If you prospect anywhere in the Southern Rocky Mountains, or get deep into online research regarding mineral values and stone types associated with any virtuous occurrence, our site is in development and hopes to offer you a fee free platform for sales. Actual products offered is the bottom line, but the networking and research angles are a powerful component of the industry. Standard precious metals mining tactics are less profitable with every [admittedly righteous] environmental regulation imposed on the standard mining industry. We seek market expansion outside typical mining practices, with the confident knowledge that stones of virtue hold value. Mines are closing, because assay values on gold and silver bullion cannot support operation overhead. Federal mandates are forcing operational overhead beyond profit margin on thousands of independent mines in the United States, and you may be in a region where that is a problem, but the IMMEDIATE focus of this venture is in the Southern end of the Rocky Mountains. ALL miners, and everyone in the families, or businesses, associated with mining in that region needs to hear a simple truth, which I share freely: the strength of stone will carry us through this. It is time to stop the ball mill and pry loose the colored stone. It is worth more than ore values. Markets exist, and our families must be fed. Old ideas that put nothing on the table are BAD ideas. This project seeks new minds willing to invest time, intelligence, hard work, and HEART, in the effort to save what can be saved of the independent mining industry in the South West U.S. Big operators are not our enemy, unless they stop our progress. Expansion in the lapidary and gem grade markets is ours for the taking, and those who take that task to heart and thrive, will be the ones who stand at the board meetings of the big movers and reap their bounties on the winds of change.

This is a chance to step up and be someone who changes fate. What is needed most, is valued least, and strong hearts are needed to explain simple truths, wherever it may matter: the ore that cannot pay mill fees can buy the mill, if placed in the hands of artists. I am a miner. I go into the mountain, and break loose beauty. They have paid me to crush it to dust, but they can no longer pay for that sin, I have put enough metal into the iron boxes of rich bastards for one life, and I am GLAD to be done with the business. I come to you with the truth hidden in every mine, and I tell you the strength and beauty of stone is far more precious than ore values. The carved stone bead is the shape of my soul, and a bar of gold is the corpse of true value. The Rock Exchange is home, for anyone who FELT what I just wrote. It needs work, but I work hard. I need help, but greed is a sin I will not bear, and any heart that hears those words is invited to test me. I give you The Rock Exchange. Become a member. Fuck around. See how long you last.

I have rabid calculus, and a formula that reduces Ebay to a faint memory of a bad dream. Bid and wait is bullshit, and if you're selling GOOD stone you know not to bother. I'm ready to bring the stone trade into real time. I need a webmaster, and I will place him on high, with ground for his throne of skulls. I need site content from anyone who gives a damn, and you are invited to log on and freak out, so my webmaster may harvest your skull. If you play nice, and you do good business, and we are both behind you, while you expand markets in an open industry. Honest merchants at every level are needed, and their performance in saving an industry will shape their career. Honest men can speak of stone. Everyone else flips burgers.

Mining for ore values is no longer a financially viable position for thousands of independent mines in North America. They are INVESTED. We can provide a VIABLE market for quality stone, and save an industry, to our profit. The strength of this idea is within the heart of a simple principle: true and lasting beauty is the noblest thing a mortal can leave to mark his time among the living. The most profound truths are told best by stone. I have been in the heart of many mountains, and I come up to tell you what they tell me: we need artists. I offer them stone, measure for measure, for this truth. I have ground for saws and chisels, and a town that needs dreamers, in the heart of a dying gold town. [bring sunscreen and food stamps, you have a roof]

The Rock Exchange is the property of of everyone who works to make it work. This is my karma for crushing stone. If it brings true and lasting beauty into the world, perhaps my soul can be washed clean. I will go into that challenge ready for the good fight. Everything I am, and everything I can be, rests in that promise. I offer my services to the only industry that understands the true measure of value: the Artists.

If you dig, I was with you. If you wish to keep digging, you must follow. I am reshaping the market. Move ahead of the curve, catch the wave and ride. We need this! Help make it happen!