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It has been a long, time consuming and costly process, but the post hearing brief has been submitted. A ruling should be handed down in approximately 30 days.

I would like to refer back to my opening statement and reiterate that time will be the judge of how well we have presented our case here. The operator asks that the evidence and testimony presented in this hearing be reviewed in real-world terms, not in terms of the speculative world into which MSHA has chosen to move over the past four to eight years. We have seen that a [...]

Original Sixteen to One Mine, Inc. (Pacific Exchange symbol OAU), has experienced unreasonable heavy-handed enforcement by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) for the past two years (see ICMJ January 2000 issue). The publicly listed company operates a traditional underground gold mine, which has continually produced gold since 1896. Federal law stipulates a complex method for operators to challenge violations of MSHA regulations. Most companies pay the penalties [...]

Good News From Alleghany MSHA lifts its closure order on January 17, 2000. Eight days later miners locate and produce a small but significant concentration of gold. February 22, 2000 - Company ships dore bars to refinery for first time in five months. Total gold production for first quarter ending March 31, 2000 was 686.71 fine troy ounces. The 10-KSB is timely filed with the SEC New metal detector proves [...]

In the Malakoff diggings of California's Sierra Nevada lies the wreckage of an old dream. It is a bizarre man-made canyon sculpted into grim spires and fins, cream-white surfaces streaked with red, the whole tortured architecture capped by a fringe of nearly black forest. More than a century ago miners sent water racing down the Sierra through networks of ditches and wooden flumes. The water, building pressure with every mile, [...]

PROSPECTUS OF THE GOLD CROWN MINING CORPORATION ALLEGHANY, CALIFORNIA LOCATION The Gold Crown Mine is located in the Alleghany Mining District, Sierra County, California, at an elevation of approximately 4,300 feet. It is about one fourth of a mile from the town of Alleghany, and thirty-nine miles North-East of Nevada City, with which, connection is made by highway, and two mountain roads, both of which pass directly through the Gold [...]

The Brown Bear gold mine is located within the Deadwood - French Gulch Mining District of Trinity County, California, approximately 30 miles west-northwest of Redding. At the brown bear mine, approximately 400 to 500 thousand ounces of gold were produced during the period from 1876 to 1950 from a series of quartz veins that range in thickness from 18 inches to 20 feet. Although no calculated ore reserve exists at [...]

Newsletter to the shareholders of the Gold Crown Mining Corporation THIS REPORT IS COMPILED TO ORIENTATE THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE GOLD CROWN MINING CORPORATION, AS TO THE PAST, PRESENT, AND PLANNED FUTURE OPERATION OF THE GOLD CROWN MINE. ON JULY 20, 1953, A QUARTZ VEIN WAS STRUCK AT THE 1,510 FOOT POINT IN THE EXPLORATION DRIFT, AT THE LOWER WORKINGS, WHERE THE MAIN OPERATION OF THE MINE IS NOW IN [...]

We are advised that with proper evidence we may be able to break the stranglehold that the majority stockholder now has on the corporation. We are gathering funds to enable our attorney to bring legal action. The papers are now being prepared and a suit will be filed as soon as it is evident that we have your financial support. We will prosecute this case to the full extent possible, [...]

Clarence H. Gordon Sir: Your statements and actions are very cleverly sprinkled half-truths and lies. It is indeed a wasteful shame that such talent isn’t being put to better use than to try to oust Mrs. Duke from that which is rightfully hers. You state, “without knowing if the gold Crown can produce gold in sufficient amounts to return dividends”. The Gold Crown last year did produce and a shipment [...]

Grass Valley (cal.) Oct. 22- The discovery of Bonanza ore in the South Fork mine in Forest city is considered one of the greatest strikes ever made in this district, and if the vein ultimately proves to be the great Tightner ore body, as everything indicates, it will mean the development of a giant property. The South Fork is owned by Los Angeles people and work has been moving ahead [...]

MINES AND MINING- Activities in the ore districts of the Great Southwest. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE TIMES Los Angeles Times 1886; Sept. 5, 1909; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Times (1881-1976) Pg.II10 Local man at Grass Valley. Nevada City (cal.) Sept.3- Benjamin Fenton, a Los Angeles real estate and mining man, has been in this section several days looking over mining properties and other interests. He is highly impressed with [...]

A judge has thrown out the case against two Sierra County gold miners charged with manslaughter after a fatal accident more than two years ago. The ruling Thursday in Downieville Calif., cleared Michael Meister Miller, 60, president of the Original Sixteen to One Mine in Alleghany, and mine manager Jonathan Farrell, 32, of responsibility for the death of Mark Fussell, 36. Fussell was operating a locomotive deep in the mine [...]

A judge has thrown out the case against two Sierra County gold miners charged with manslaughter after a fatal accident more than two years ago. The ruling Thursday in Downieville Calif., cleared Michael Meister Miller, 60, president of the Original Sixteen to One Mine in Alleghany, and mine manager Jonathan Farrell, 32, of responsibility for the death of Mark Fussell, 36. Fussell was operating a locomotive deep in the mine [...]

A judge has thrown out the case against two Sierra County gold miners charged with manslaughter after a fatal accident more than two years ago. The ruling Thursday in Downieville Calif., cleared Michael Meister Miller, 60, president of the Original Sixteen to One Mine in Alleghany, and mine manager Jonathan Farrell, 32, of responsibility for the death of Mark Fussell, 36. Fussell was operating a locomotive deep in the mine [...]