Capital Mineral Club

Concord New Hampshire

November 30, 2004

Stuart C. Stone

63 Unity Road

Newport, NH 03773

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Stone:

                 The Directors and Members of the Capital Mineral Club thank you sincerely for your time and effort to introduce us to the possibility of our acquiring the rights of ownership to your Unity pegmatite. For a number of reasons the Club decided, at its November meeting, not to pursue the matter further.

One of our members, who visited the site with you, has described the site as a simple pegmatite consisting of the usual granite materials-quartz, feldspar and mica- along with some scarce minerals of boron, beryllium, tantalum, niobium, etc., included. The considerable history in your possession supports this conclusion.

Club members have a wide interest in mineralogy, but the one activity that seems to bring us together is the opportunity to go mineral hunting and collecting out in the field. The Club uses its limited resources to support activities that offer the membership the chance to find interesting and possibly unique crystallized specimens. For the Club to invest in real property the potential site must offer something more than the material to be found in a simple pegmatite.

The cost and effort to open up a collection facility for the membership has to be weighed against the probability of worthwhile findings. An open facility would be one where there are vertical faces of sufficient depth and height to see the edge and core of the pegmatite crystallization. A purpose of mining is not in the Charter of the Club. Our observations of your Unity site do not encourage us to look further into whether there is any real opportunity there. The documentation you offered makes quite clear that, in spite of Clifford Stone’s effort, no one ever found the site of sufficient quality to really open it up.

The Club will undoubtedly continue to look for sites that offer sophisticated opportunities for the membership, and I believe some members have ideas along this line. Your Unity property would probably be better put to another use rather than as a mineral site. Who knows, it is possible that something of interest might be found should someone choose to blast a cellar hole.

Sincerely,

Charles Forsberg, Director, for

Gordon Jackson, President

Gordon Jackson, 94 Borough Road, PO Box 600, Canterbury, NH 03224

603-783-4493 mailto:Gsj8544aol.com

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