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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, [...]

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 [...]

1911 ~ July 19 Name of Mine: Plumbago Location of Mine: Alleghany, CA. Cause of Disaster: Missed hole Killed and Injured: K-2 /  I-0   1922 ~ May 4 Name of Mine: Tightner Location of Mine: Alleghany, CA. Cause of Disaster: Caught between skip and shaft timbers Killed and Injured: K-1 / I-0     1929 ~ Sept. 22 Name of Mine: Original Sixteen to One Location of Mine: Alleghany, [...]

Alleghany (cal.) Jun. 20, the recent rich shipment of ore, amounting to 1200 pounds, pulled from Tightner mine Yielded the owners $75,000 in fine gold and 400 ounces of concentrates valued at $12 per ounce, making a total of $79,000. This ore was extracted in the course of developing the main vein in the lower adit, and was not taken out with the purpose of showing the richness of the [...]

Up to 1872, only a little e placer mining by a man named Britton had been done in the section now known as Deadwood, then Kline, who was also working placer, discovered the first quartz ledge, and named it Bismark. He immediately turned his whole attention to quartz, working with good success for three or four years. He next discovered the Montezuma, and still owns both mines. The latter joins [...]

Even the wild rush to California in ’49 hardly equaled that to Caribou ten years later. Surely there has never been such a frenzied scramble for gold as that which filled the harbor of Victoria, Vancouver Island, with a navy of antiquated, leaky craft, laden to the scuppers with a horde of dauntless adventurers, burning to reach the precious placers of the Upper Frazer. These upper reaches are wild enough [...]

ALLEGHANY- The last land auction to take place in the Wild West was over a century ago, when landowners settled their disputes with gunfights. The final chapter of this California epic came to an end Saturday, when the Federal Government sold 17 parcels of land to the public. Thirty-one bidders ended up spending a total of $239,800- all in cash and four times the minimum bid amounts for the properties. [...]

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 [...]