Elk Run Mining Company

02/23/2026

What We did on our Winter Vacation. Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The most awesome experience. Like ever!

01/30/2026

Just returning from vacation. Overwhelmed by pushy marketing in foreign ports. Not my approach.
I make an exception today only to mention some things I've accomplished. Not brag, just fact.
I have had my jewelry delivered to ALL 7 continents including Antartica. My jewelry was worn by Katherin Heigl in the movie "Killers", and created the eye balls for a sculpture sent to the Moon, cut from a chondrite meteorite.
My art has covered the Earth and Moon. So, I gotta brag, once.
TU for reading. Stuart.

01/16/2026

Store will REOPEN Feb. 4th.

Thank you! Christmas Eve was the busiest day of the year.
I've been working to update infrastructure on the farm and house. (Major Honey-dos). 300 feet of waterline line to the Alpaca barn, yes, Karen is HAPPY. Lots else in the works.
Pic is "Honey". One of the first to be born here, 10 years ago.
I've got to keep Karen and the critters smiling.

12/23/2025

OPEN! TUESDAY Dec. 23, 10-6,
Wednesday Christmas Eve 10-2

12/17/2025

12/17/2025

First pair of these sold within hours, the same day I finished them. So I finished a second pair.
Waterfall Earrings of Highly Fluorescent Franklin Marble from the Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, N.J. Personally collected in the mine dumps.
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12/15/2025

STORE IS OPEN; 10-6, all week.
closed Sunday.
OPEN Christmas Eve, until I wan'na go Home. Come early!

12/13/2025

Australian Opal. A high quality doublet, with awesome fire, in Sterling silver. Freshly cut and mounted, finished this morning.

12/12/2025

Merry Christmas!
Stuart

12/06/2025

Elk Ivory. Custom pendants. Once a valuable treasure of native Americans, the remanints of ice age tusks are now reduced to tooth like appendages. Working with these is much more involved than the average cabochon. I had 2 sets, from 2 seperate hunters, come into the store on the same day a couple weeks ago. I failed to get pics of the earrings I created for the 2nd Hunter.

11/26/2025

Busy Fingers. Built for ME!
It took 11 months to set the top cab, Charolite from Siberia, ( Waiting on the creative inspiration ), then I added the Opal, Austrailia, and finished with an Amazonite, Virginia. The opal fire is camera shy, difficult to catch. Set in sterling silver.

11/26/2025

Custom Creation. Rutilated Quartz, 2-tier pendant, set in sterling.
I love my job, getting out of bed is the hard part.