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The Phoenix is not only in the tourist business, but is also in the entertainment business. The Phoenix mine has <br />been televised many times. Some examples include, being shown live on the Morning Breakfast show out of New <br />York City and on America Talks also out of New York Ci[y. The mine has also been shown on local programming <br />in Denver, The Spirit of Colorado, done by Channel 4 news. Channel 6 and Channel 12 have featured the mine in <br />some of their educational programs. The Phoenix was also aired on the Tom Brokaw prime time national newscast. <br />Reuters British television aired the mine all over the entire world. Some documentaries have also been made at the <br />Phoenix mine. The most recent program was filmed by Tower Productions for A&E television. Our crew all "died" <br />for a program called 'Unexplained'. National Geographic has also written several articles for its magazine on the <br />Phoenix mine. <br />We also give lectures involving small mining methods and mining history to public organizations. Some recent <br />examples include speeches to the Kiwanis club in Evergreen and [he Colorado and Texas gem and mineral clubs. <br />We Ily to Phoenix Arizona and lecture once a year to newly hires geologists and engineers for the United States <br />Bureau of Land Management's Training Division. We have made presenmtions to the personnel of the U. S. Forest <br />Service and to various other community groups who have requested our service. We had almost 100 soups of <br />school children tour our mine in 1998 alone. <br />The Phoenix is also school which leaches others how to be miners. 1 am a qualified MSHA instructor . 1 was <br />trained by our federal government and am authorized by MSHA to vain and certify miners. Our mine is probably <br />the only Feld school available to teach men and women the practical aspects of how to operate a small mine. <br />My latest trainee is a geologist from Bolivia who was sent to me by a professor from the University of Colorado. <br />This man's family owns a large gold deposit at 14,000 Ft. in Bolivia. He needs to learn how to mine, and we are <br />training him. <br />Mr. Hope, a government consultant for the U.S. Smte Department in Washington D.C., brought Chief Manupapami, <br />the Tribal Chief of the Peday Tribes in Jaya, Indonesia to the Phoenix mine. His tribes are poor, and he needs to <br />construct a hospital as well as train doctors and nurses. They control a valuable unexplored mineral region. They <br />want to develop it for the good of their tribes. We agreed to teach some of his brightest young natives the skills they <br />nerd to successfully mine their mineral deposits. They are now being taught our language, and then will be sent to <br />the Phoenix mine for on the job training. <br />We will teach them the practical aspects of mining and will keep them abreast of the latest technology. David <br />Mosch, a mining engineer, who works part time at the Colorado School of Mines as an instructor and is also <br />assisting some Australian mining engineers to invent some new mining equipment ,will teach them the pertinent <br />technical data. <br />Another activity at the Phoenix mine is the developmem of new ideas applicable to small mines. We got into this <br />work at the prompting of The United States Bureau of Mines, which is no longer in operation. Mr. David S. Brown <br />from Washington D.C., who was then the acting director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, made a site visit with his <br />staff to the Phoenix mine in 1991. This resulted in the U.S.B.M. givin. us a contract to assist them in conducting a <br />fusibility study For insitu mining methods for gold veins. This is a method of Fracturing and dissolving the mineral <br />within the rock without actually taking the rock out of the mountain. <br />Some people who have worked with us, since this time, include a world famous inventor recognized in Who's Who <br />of America as a renowned mathematician, physicist, and chemist. Mr. Robert Ferron. He holds many patents <br />including some revolwionary ones For longing oil wells. There is also Dallas Addis. He is a highly recognized <br />engineer working with us toward research and development of new mining ideas. He is the electrical and <br />mechanical engineer NASA hired to correct the engineering defect in the Apollo 13 spacecraft, which had resulted <br />in near disaster. <br />As you can see the Phoenix mine has been adapted into a tourist mine and much more. We would like to continue <br />the growth of the Phoenix by adding the Comstock workings which are part of the Phoenix mine. That is why we <br />are here today. We arc asking the board to raalize that a permit is not required to continue to add to an existing <br />tourist mine and training facility which we do not consider mining activity. At some future point should it become <br />necessary to obtain a permit for actual mining. 1 would not hesitate to comply with the requirement of obtaining a <br />