To: NYBob1 who wrote (102 ) 7/15/2007 6:09:58 PM From: NYBob1 Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 144 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). ---- 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. - dd....franklinmining.com Imo. Tia. FMNJ - Mission - In God We Trustsiliconinvestor.com its to be at the right place - at the right time -siliconinvestor.com siliconinvestor.com