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To: Jafco who wrote (33837)	8/30/1998 10:49:00 PM
From: Tim Hall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35569

Joe, <<I've been following gpgi for 10 years and do not recall gpgi claiming that platinum was ever" mined" at the Oro Grande. Where did you get your information for the above quote?>> You better start paying more attention to what you read. You have never heard this story in ten years time? gpgi.com Tim

To: Jafco who wrote (33837)	8/30/1998 11:10:00 PM
From: Tim Hall	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 35569

Joe, << It appeared that much of the metals being sent to the mint some 80 years earlier was actually being discarded. This unusable metal at the time, turned out to be platinum and most of the platinum group metals (PGMs >> This is the actual quote from GPGI's web site. If you will check the Annual mining reports published by the US Bureau of Mines, you will find that platinum was indeed valuable and much sought after around the turn of the century. Calling platinum unusable is crazy. The BOM followed producers in CA, OR with as little as several ounces of production. Tim