LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — Head in the sand

I have been a subscriber to The Northern Miner for about four years and I am appalled at the pathetic reporting on International Precious Metals (T.N.M., April 28/97).

It is obvious that The Miner has done very little homework and does not comprehend what is happening in the Arizona desert. The company’s BRX property will become the largest precious metals find ever. I am saddened that The Miner has chosen to tarnish its reputation with biased reporting.

For the past three years, IPM has applied intensive scientific and technological methodologies to ascertain the qualitative and quantitative parameters of a complex orebody on its BRX property. The company has been accurately described as a scientific research development company.

Scientific tests numbering in the thousands have proved conclusively to IPM that measurable amounts of gold and platinum exist on the property. After many months of intense study involving applied science, IPM believes it has the methods required to recover economically attractive amounts of the metals.

It should be noted that IPM has employed world-class, independent consulting firm Behre Dolbear in the evaluation of the BRX property. Does The Miner doubt Bernard Guarnera, the president of Behre Dolbear, when he says there are measurable amounts of gold at BRX?

The Miner has become the object of much-deserved ridicule among the people who know and understand IPM. You have tarnished the reputation of your publication, something that will become difficult to regain as the world begins to realize that the BRX property truly contains the largest precious metals find ever.

Rick Childress, Scottsdale, Ariz.