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To: roto who wrote (43904)	7/4/2007 8:11:59 PM
From: loantech	Respond to of 78424

Those articles I posted show intel photos of potential good ground. The link is down but those were Nasa photos of an area close to Mesquite on the same trend using some wizz bang tech to identify gold areas. Interesting take on the land swap. Someone has the claim in the Chocolate mountains right next to the northern boundary of Mesquite. I posted a copy of a lease that Newmont got in the Chocolate Mountains through Mesquite. Any access goes through Western's Mesquite. Interesting. Their slide presentation show expansion to the north I think on trend. Sattelite photos still available at this link but not as good: instruct.uwo.ca instruct.uwo.ca instruct.uwo.ca <Catellus owns over 400,000 acres of worthless land in the California Mojave Desert. This land was obtained by Santa Fe Pacific and its predecessor railroad companies as part of the "checkerboard" railroad lands awarded for the building of the transcontinental railroad. Santa Fe transferred these lands which have been for sale for over 100 years, over to its subsidiary, Catellus Corp. In the land swap, Catellus Corp. will receive land from decommissioned military bases. One of the bases will be the Chocolate Mountain gunnery range. Unbeknownst to the public, inside the range is the world's richest gold rift zone. Geologists estimate that the gold contained in this zone is worth between $40 to $100 billion. These are surface gold deposits which are more profitable to mine than the one-mile deep gold deposits in South Africa. In addition to controlling Catellus, Santa Fe owns and operates the Mesquite gold mine located on the Chocolate Mountain rift zone. The Mesquite gold mine is one of the top ten mines in the United States and has some of the most profitable gold deposits of any mine in the world. To the north is the Chocolate Mountain gunnery range. The Mesquite open pit gold mine literally stops at the fence that borders the gunnery range. >>>> mega.nu:8080/ampp/bixman.html No link on this: <<A 80 10/01/02 WP 8039.2 S 37 G. Pelka E. Kruger CONSIDER APPROVAL OF AN APPLICATION FOR A PREFERENTIAL MINERAL EXTRACTION LEASE ON STATE-OWNED SCHOOL LAND, CHOCOLATE MOUNTAINS, IMPERIAL COUNTY APPLICANT: Newmont Mining Corporation Attn: Mr. David Faley, Director, Land 1700 Lincoln Street Denver, CO 80203 AREA, LAND TYPE, AND LOCATION: The application for a preferential State mineral extraction lease pertains to lands covered by State mineral prospecting permit No. PRC 8039.2 containing 657.87 acres, more or less, of vacant State-owned school lands, identified as Lots 1-10, inclusive, of Section 5 and Lots 1-10, inclusive, of Section 6, all in Township 13 South, Range 19 East, San Bernardino Base and Meridian, Imperial County (attached as Exhibit A). The subject lands are situated about six miles northeast of Glamis, California, adjacent to the northern boundary of the Mesquite Mine, and are included as part of the mine expansion plan. BACKGROUND: The Mesquite Mine is an open-pit, cyanide heap-leach, gold mining and refining facility located in eastern Imperial County. The mine has been continuously operated since 1985. Excavation of ore ceased in May 2001, pending acquisition of mine expansion permits. The mine encompasses approximately 5,200 acres, of which 3,655 acres have been disturbed by mining activities to date. Approximately sixty-seven percent (67%) of the mine is located on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The remainder is privately held lands. >> I do not know if the rift area is anything owned by Catellus or Western. Interesting area when all considered. Knowing how big Barrick got with Randy Oliphant I wonder what if anything is up the sleeve of Western?