To: Karl Zetmeir who wrote (4863 ) 12/22/1999 3:04:00 PM From: Karl Zetmeir Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 5143
MG Natural Resources Announces Patent Approved PHOENIX, Dec 22, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Patent for Treated Ore Approved MG Natural Resources Corp. Wednesday announced that it has received notice from the U.S. Patent Office in the form of a "Notice of Allowance" that its first patent application has been approved. It should issue early in the year 2000. The allowed claims provide the company with broad-based patent protection for a uniquely treated (processed) ore that contains precious metals including gold, silver, and platinum group metals. The processed ore is obtained by converting refractory (difficult to assay and extract) ore to an ore form that responds more favorably with traditional precious metals analytic and extraction methods. This new form of processed ore was invented and produced using an innovative technological method invented by Alvin C. Johnson, Ph.D. The patent was assigned to MG Natural Resources. The company has a second "pending patent application" for the method of producing the treated ore. MG continues to conduct research and development by Johnson and his laboratory team. Through their work, MG has created additional new precious metal technological inventions that the company believes are important and for which additional patent protections may be sought. Johnson is a corporate director, chief technical director and a major shareholder of MG. Corporate Goals The company has reoriented its strategic plan to focus entirely on the development of the gold, silver, and platinum group technological intellectual property being developed by Johnson. MG believes that this technology is potentially so important and so valuable that all other opportunities available to MG are insignificant in comparison. The technology has application to the company's Sinagua and Sticklizard properties but as importantly, to many other refractory ore properties as well. To further this end, the company has raised money through a private placement of stock, sold unrelated assets and cleared the balance sheet of most debt. The company has established for itself a strategic plan laid out in a set of goals that have been listed under "Management" on the company's web site at mg-resources.com .