Franklin Mining - FMNJ - BRIDGE OF SILVER -
FMNJ Cerro Rico mine - recent NEWS -
Cerro Rico and Pulacayo Projects Receive the Support of -
Bolivian Mine Workers -
June 19, 2007 -
Franklin Mining, Inc. -
(FMNJ) CEO, Jaime Melgarejo, Jr, is pleased to announce that
Franklin Mining, Inc. consultant William Petty -
has concluded a series of meetings with Pedro Montes Gonzales,
Executive Secretary, Central Obrera Boliviana.
In these meetings, Franklin Mining was, again, assured
of the continued full support of all joint-venture projects
with COMIBOL, the Mining Corporation of Bolivia.
Central Obrera Boliviana -
(COB) is the center of Bolivia's trade unions.
With 2.5 million members, COB represents every major trade
in Bolivia including FSTMB -
(Union Federation of Mine Workers of Bolivia).
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Potosi City -
is famous both for being the highest city in the world—at
almost fourteen thousand feet—and for -
Cerro Rico Mine -
(Rich Hill), the reddish mountain looming above Potosi City.
Chuquicamata Mine - like -
Cerro Rico is one of the world’s largest mines -
But unlike its Chilean neighbor mine -
Cerro Rico history has a sad 666 past -
“You could build a bridge from Potosi to Madrid -
with the silver that came from its Cerro Rico tunnels,”
say Potosinos -
“But you could construct a road there and back with
the bones of the slaves who died mining it.”
Since the Spanish first opened tunnels here in 1545 -
an estimated 9 million people have 666perished -
inside Cerro Rico.
Cerro Rico, Rich Hill -
notwithstanding, Bolivia -
is now the poorest country in South America -
Today, despite its dark past, roughly three hundred
indigenous Aymara miners in about thirty-three cooperatives -
continue to probe the depths of Cerro Rico -
praying to local eltio666gods that they will find -
residual caches of silver ore -
While they now labor for themselves instead of Spaniards -
the miners’ working conditions still remain medieval -
Miners work with no maps and few lights in low tunnels -
they explode dynamite charges at will etc. poor safety -
standards -
Since lung disease and accidents kills out older miners -
children, some barely ten or twelve -
carry the picks and push the wheelbarrows -
They are motivated by poverty and by chewing enormous -
wads of coca leaves -
Many families live in the tailings piles -
and sell dynamite, coca, and grain alcohol—staples -
of the miners—on the streets of Potosi -
Ex. The Chiquacamata copper mine in Chile -
is like Cerro Rico -
one of the largest mine in the world -
The trucks carry three-quarters of a million pounds of ore -
in each load -
Franklin Mining -
and its joint-venture partner -
COMIBOL -
in the meetings, consider open pit mining as a prime -
alternative -
of the continued full support of all -
joint-venture projects, incl. in the -
Cerro Rico JV-project -
is the 5 major veins with -
COMIBOL -
the Mining Corporation of Bolivia -
btw. the open pit mine alternative -
may can carry the work about 200m down -
before underground mining has to be -
re-commissioned -
FMNJ do have the mining development knowledge -
and to hi-tech safety equipments for the miners sake etc. -
FMNJ to perform the mining with -
the highest safety standard -
the open pit mining has been considered -
and other alternatives etc. -
the discussions are ongoing -
for the miners highest sake to the safety standard etc. -
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