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THE CHAIRMAN'S LETTER

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March 8, 2011

THE CHAIRMAN'S LETTER

http://www.constitutionmining.com/
By
Constitution Mining Corp Chairman of the Board, Patrick C. Gorman

Profile: Patrick (Pat) C. Gorman is president of Resource Consultants, a brokerage firm specializing in precious metals. For 21 years, Mr. Gorman has hosted Hard Money Watch, the longest-running financial talk radio program in the Phoenix area. He is the author of the best-selling book, The Value of Honest Money and editor of Wealth Protection, a monthly investment newsletter dealing with opportunities in the precious metals and natural resource sector. He is a widely respected a gold and silver market expert.


Dear Friends and Shareholders,

As time goes on at Constitution Mining Corp. we want you the shareholder and interested friend of our company to be updated, educated and informed about the project into which we have poured (and continue to pour!) our expertise and energies. We expect that this inaugural issue of The Chairman's Letter will be one of many you will be receiving from us. In this our first exchange with you, we want to accomplish a number of things in order to "set the stage" for what we believe has the potential to evolve into a very bright future for Constitution Mining Corp and by extension its shareholders.

Of our many thousands of shareholders, a number of you who have been with us at Constitution Mining since it first began as a start-up gold exploration company, know that our desire has always been to build an organization of strong-willed shareholders, like minded people and long term learners who won't give up at the first sign of adversity that comes their way.

We want to let everyone how we began this company and how we intend to continue building it into one of the most exciting, profitable and environmentally-friendly mining concerns in the global resource sector. We'll discuss what we have been up to. We will talk about our outlook for the company - where we intend to go from here, and how � if you're not already a member of our team � you too can get involved with as we move forward.

Enjoy the facts, figures and information in this letter. If you're reading about us here for the first time, keep in mind that if you would like more information about Constitution Mining, write to us at info@constitutionming.com or just pick up the phone and call 888-401-8322, extension 101, and ask for Adam Ross.


How We Got Started

In the spring of 2006 our company, Constitution Mining Corp (CMIN), was first formed. It was a very exciting time, in part because we had long believed that the market was finally ready, not just for another mining exploration company, but rather an "outside the box" operation which had something very special to offer the investing public.

We wanted a company whose business model - which of course focused on exploration for and eventual production of gold, - but also one which was underpinned by a different kind of philosophy. A company that in addition to turning a profit, would do its very best to treat not only the environment, but those with whom it dealt � the locals, workers, and the shareholders - in a fair and equitable way. That philosophy, from our Environmental Pledge, states:

  • "We look out for ourselves when we look out for the land.
  • "We follow all laws and all international mining standards for the protection of the environment. And we go further. Constitution Mining will never willingly contribute to damaging our environment.
  • "We will only seek to develop gold deposits in areas where the work can be done with full respect for the land's natural beauty and its long-term potential for other uses. In Peru, for example the modern dredging and processing methods we believe are best suited for the extraction of gold from our deposits are green and clean. They require no cyanide, mercury or other toxic chemicals.
  • "Whether it is the ongoing advancement of our leading property holdings in the Gold Sands of Peru or anywhere else we have operations, in all circumstances we will work to a high standard of environmental excellence." Not to mention our Mission Statement, written for each News Release:
  • "The Company's goal is to locate large-scale commercially viable gold deposits and continuously increase the amount of gold underlying its outstanding shares. The Company is interested primarily in geographical areas that are home to several significant proven gold deposits, including highly prospective districts likely to hold further large deposits."

At first we looked at several prospective gold properties in Argentina, and for a time held exploration leases on two of them. After taking note of the increasingly unpredictable mining regulatory climate in some of the country's provinces, we began a search which would lead us to the alluvial gold sands deposits along the Mara��n River in Peru.

As our focus changed, we decided it would be in the company's best interest, (and our shareholders) to terminate these agreements in order to concentrate our focus on the Peruvian Gold Sands District project.

Along the way we also entered into an agreement with Seabridge Gold to explore and perhaps develop certain of their Nevada properties. At the same time, our understanding of the possible company-making potential of the Mara��n River's alluvial gold deposits was growing. The Company soon realized that not just our primary, but our undivided focus should be on the acquisition and development of these highly prospective properties.

Therefore, our CEO, the Board of Directors, and your Chairman unanimously decided that Constitution Mining should discontinue its efforts to acquire and delineate the Nevada properties. Management at Seabridge Gold (stated in a press release) agreed, and noted that their offer to us would remain on the table, should we desire to partake of it at a later date.


Our First Steps...

It was in 2008, that our attention was drawn to the highly prospective Gold Sands district of northeastern Peru, located on the Mara��n River a tributary of the mighty Amazon. As stated in a White Paper entitled Plateau of Promise posted on our site here CMIN and a news release by the Company:

"The Gold Sands of Peru were laid down by eons of alluvial erosion. For millions of years, the waters of the Santiago and the Mara��n rivers have been carving their way through the gold-rich mountain canyons of the Andes, carrying off vast amounts of gold and depositing much of the treasure in loose gravels and sands - Gold Sands - below the Manseriche Gorge in Northeastern Peru. There the rivers reach a broad flood plain, slow to a crawl and release their cargo."

After a lot of "due diligence" (including the first trip where at one point, two of our mining consultants, temporarily became lost on the Amazon while scouting out the area!), and narrowing down prospective lease holdings, we decided on what we felt were some of the "best of breed" properties along the Maranon River.

From the very beginning, the Gold Sands district seemed like a good fit for us. If Constitution Mining could "prove up" enough gold to support a commercially-viable large scale dredging operation, the project offered the potential of becoming a real "company maker".


What We've Been Doing

If and when large scale production commences on Constitution Mining's Peruvian Gold Sands properties, a relatively simple, cost-effective and straightforward process is likely to be employed. To get a sense of how such an operation might work, just go to our website by typing in either "constitutionmining.com" or "cmin.com" - or follow the link here to have a look. While you're checking out the dredgers, drop down to the "Latest News"/View all news section. To have all of our news releases delivered promptly to your Inbox when they are sent out on the market wires, just go to the bottom of the page to "Receive official news releases from Constitution Mining"/enter your email address/press Request. You will then be presented with the opportunity to download a free pdf copy of a text written by your Chairman - The Value of Honest Money � a monetary/economic discussion treasure you will find hard to put down once you've begun reading it. Honest Money's message is as relevant today (and will be tomorrow!) as it was when it was first penned.

Before we leased any of the properties along the Mara��n River, our geologists looked at all the historical drilling records they could find. Although they had been put together in the days before NI-43 101 Compliant reporting standards became the law of the land, the extensive drilling program, gave us a lot of confidence that we could be onto something big. And to really drive the point home, virtually all of the holes that we drilled showed the presence of gold.

On October 1, 2008, Constitution Mining Corp. (CMIN.OB) announced that the company had entered into a Mineral Rights Option Agreement to acquire 382 km2 of strategically positioned mining properties in the developing Gold Sands district of northeastern Peru. Our premise, as stated in the news release at that time (and which guides our efforts to this very day) was that,

"The Gold Sands district in northeastern Peru offers the potential for large-scale, low-cost production of gold. Potential, if the indicated gold mineralization in the Gold Sands continues to expand, that may be realized by employing modern dredging and processing methods that do not use cyanide, mercury, or any other disruptive chemical processes."

This takes us back to our mission statement � our desire to use relatively simple (and thus less expensive) excavation and gold production methods involving a smaller ecological footprint than is generally the case with most other mining methods. From the start of our research on the Gold Sands district, it has been the company's belief that should commercially-recoverable gold be discovered, the area would be suitable for the use of modern, large-scale dredging technologies.

Just a month later, in November 2008, Constitution Mining exercised its initial option to purchase a 25% interest in the Mineral Rights for the 382 km2 of mining properties under its review, while retaining the right to purchase the remaining 75% on previously disclosed terms.

Soon thereafter, the Company signed a wide-ranging service contract with a Peruvian mining services company, Logistica y Servicios Aluviales San Lorenzo SAC ("San Lorenzo") to help develop its properties. San Lorenzo contracted MTI Holland BV, a member of the IHC Merwede Group, the world's leading manufacturer of innovative Gold Sands dredging and processing equipment, to assist with technical development of our company's 382 km2 (currently 461 km2) Gold Sands property. MTI was tasked with providing guidance and advice regarding:

  • Preparation of the preliminary exploration and project development plan
  • Drilling, sample taking, sample processing, and reporting procedures
  • Development of a conceptual master plan, including estimation of production rates and the associated equipment requirements with a view to completing a scoping study to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of the Gold Sands project. This study was designed to include a geotechnical analysis, equipment selection, cost determinations and cash flow modeling,

A productive tour of our properties was undertaken by the managing director of MTI Holland B.V. a leading research and development institute for dredging, dredge mining and dredge equipment, and member of the IHC Merwede group.

Henk Van Muijen the Managing director of the MIT Institute stated during his visit:
"The exploration program is run with a professional attitude following well established procedures..."�Based on this model (the depositing model of the Rio Mara��n Basin), more in-depth exploration can be executed which might result in deposits that can sustain large dredge mining operations. In this respect, it was encouraging to visit a recently discovered outcrop of a paleo-channel (meaning 'old channel' - remnant of a stream channel cut into older rock and later filled by sediments of younger rock)."


Constitution Mining's Commitment to the Environment

Constitution Mining's strong commitment to the environment led it to contract with AMEC Earth and Environmental - one of the world's leading environmental and engineering consulting organizations with a strong reputation as a provider of safe and sustainable solutions - to ensure that the appropriate environmental studies and advanced permitting processes were initiated so as not to result in undue delays in project development.

In April 2009, the Company announced successful completion of a social base line study following a series of individual and community meetings held with local residents, which identified the social and economic realities of developing the Gold Sands district. This included meetings and interviews with stakeholders, conducted with the help of the Company's Community Relations Officer, CMIN's industry partners and a workshop organized by the company.

The program provided an opportunity for the Company to articulate and demonstrate in a transparent and continuous way its commitment to sustainable development in relationship with local communities with respect to local culture, values, traditions and the environment.

Our President and CEO Michael Stocker remarked:

"Having identified the needs of the surrounding communities, we have established a workable plan that can create a long lasting win-win relationship for our shareholders, local residents and Peru in general...The fact that we are introducing 'clean and green' mining methods and technologies to extract gold from the host sands and gravels was key to gaining broad community support. We aim to be a shining example of how 21st century mining can achieve excellence in environmental standards, in addition to being able to successfully marry local community interests to those of our shareholders."

In a Community Workshop, as mandated under Peruvian law and with officials from the Ministry of Mining and Energy officials in attendance, local authority representatives offered all necessary support, and later granted unanimous approval to our company.


How Mining Exploration Companies are Financed

Most exploration companies are out there looking for deposits of a valuable metal � in our case gold, that are large and accessible enough to be mined and sold on the market at a profit. Until such a deposit has been discovered and delineated, an exploration company usually does not have an income stream, so from time to time, in order to fund its operations it needs to seek outside financing. This is a truism for virtually all publicly-traded exploration companies. That is why in our news releases you will see a disclaimer stating, "The full implementation of these programs will require the Company to secure additional financing.

Our goal is to be able to secure ongoing financing in such a way that shareholder dilution is minimized, and to spend these funds in a manner maximizing their value to furthering the Company's stated goals � at the same time striving to create added value for you the shareholder.

If and when the exploration team is able to "prove up" a property � indicating that its ore body can be mined profitably, it has several options. It might strike a joint venture (JV) arrangement with another mining company. It could sell its property to a larger producer � if agreed upon by both parties, it would be classified as a "friendly takeover". Or the exploration company might decide to go into production itself, seeking additional outside financing in order to do so.

If you would like more information about Constitution Mining, write to us at info@constitutionming.com or just pick up the phone and call 888-401-8322, extension 101, and ask for Adam Ross.


How Alluvial Gold is Mined

It's important that we take just a minute to clear up some misconceptions about the type of alluvial gold (called "placer" by the Spaniards) found in the Gold Sands district, as well as how it is "mined" in comparison to, say hard rock or open pit production techniques.

Hard rock mining (in non-technical terms) is basically carried out by blasting/digging large amounts of gold-bearing ore out of the ground � often at depths thousands of feet underground. It is brought to the surface, where it is crushed, piled and "leached" with a chemical bath, often using cyanide, in order to begin separating the gold and other (often base metals) metals from the surrounding rock. Other types of ore separation can be used, some involving a "flotation circuit" where the gold is lifted away from other mineralization present during refinement.

Another method of obtaining ore closer to the surface is known as Open Pit mining. Here ore is excavated from the ground, going down from the surface in concentric rings. Ore is trucked to the top in massive trucks costing $2 million a copy, then crushed and spread out on large, lined "leach pads" and as with hard rock mining, sprayed with a chemical bath in order to separate the gold and other metals contained therein.

These methods are time-consuming, expensive and can be disruptive to the area being mined � necessitating a complicated and costly "mitigation" process once the commercially-valuable resource of the area has been "mined out". Many jurisdictions require funds be set aside by a company well before construction of a new mine and mill can even be undertaken.

In comparison to these complicated, costly and time-consuming processes, the alluvial gold removed from Constitution Mining's Gold Sands paleo-placers is likely to be more direct, efficient, and yes, much less expensive. In fact, alluvial mining equipment can cost less than 20% as much as the kind of open pit machinery needed to accomplish the same task. And we're looking to access gold at depths of no more than 30 � 50 meters! All of which could translate into greater... profitability.

Under a full-production scenario, one or more dredgers would feed a floating plant. This plant would be a self-contained operational unit carrying out the entire cycle, beginning with stripping, then mining and recovery, and finally reclamation.


How Gold Values are Measured

Most investors are used to hearing about gold mining deposits being measured in terms of grams per ton. For example, an extensive underground deposit containing 3 or 4 grams of gold per ton of ore rock is generally considered to offer the likelihood that a commercially viable operation can be undertaken. For open pit operations, much lower grades, sometimes less than 1 gram per ton, can still be profitable � depending of course upon the going market rate for an ounce of gold.

Alluvial (placer) gold values measurement is entirely different. First the ore throughput, consisting generally of graveled/sedimentary deposits is measured not in tons, but rather in cubic meters. And the yield is spoken of, not in terms of grams per ton, but rather milligrams/cubic meter.

To place the likely yields of these three mining methodologies in context, consider the following:

Average grades for an Underground mine can run from 5 � 15 grams/ton; for an Open Pit, you could be looking at .50- 1.50 grams/ton. A Placer gold operation might come in at .05 - .15 grams per ton. (Keep in mind, as stated earlier, that alluvial/placer operations measure the ore-bearing throughput of a production process in cubic meters, rather than tons.)

Though at first glance, alluvial deposits might seem to be of relatively low grade compared to a hard rock mining operation, the reality is that their much lower production cost, as well as the straightforward nature and simplicity of processing Paleo-Placers, means that these fine-grained gold deposits can be mined at a substantial profit.

Our V.P. of Exploration, Jim Prudden has observed:

"At our Gold Sands Project, we have found grades up to +700mg/m3 Au. The first consistent report recorded 161mg/m3. There are several other places in the world which are in production with grades lower than 100mg/m3. For example, an alluvial gold mining operation in Colombia is running profitably, accessing placer gold values that are substantially lower than some of the drilling results thus far discovered on Constitution Mining's Gold Sands properties (144mg/m3)."

To put this into further perspective, consider that Grey River and Fox Creek, two dredge operations near Arahura, New Zealand, operate profitably on throughput placer materials running 60 mg/m3 and 143 mg/m3 of gold respectively. As noted previously, during some of Constitution Mining's delineation efforts "color" is indicating gold grades that are nearly 4 times the level at which the aforementioned placer operations are conducting a profitable business!

Our mining team has determined approximate cost of production at $2-3 USD/m3 with a Gold value of $6 USD/m3 (assumes gold at $1,200 USD/ounce).

When calculated using gold values observed in the Second Channel during the Phase II Drill hole program as a basis, and with a cutoff value of 50 mg/cm3 (using the middle of the estimated range and assuming $1,200 gold), it can mathematically be shown that mining this channel would cost around $370/ounce of retrieved gold.

Many hard rock/open pit mining operations today report their mining cost of gold acquisition to be in the neighborhood of $650 - $700 + the ounce. If our company's alluvial gold values which the drill teams have been finding remain reasonably constant and we acknowledge that this is a big "if", Constitution Mining's projected cost of $370/ounce would compare very favorably with hard rock/open pit operations - coming in at around one-half the cost. Or stated another way � at twice the profit!


Why an Exploration company stock price (yes, ours too!) can be so Volatile

Our company has a fairly large share float on the Over the Counter (OTCC: BB) market. This can be good, in that lots of liquidity can give buyers and sellers the opportunity to efficiently trade their shares. Indeed, it is not uncommon for CMIN to trade between one and two million shares during a single day's market session.

However it can be a negative in that this same liquidity presents an opportunity for "black box" traders (through the use of tightly-spaced computer-driven buy and sell orders) to drive our share price up and down on big volume, even when there is no news to account for such volatility In addition to this disconcerting, but not unusual practice � some estimates place Black Box activity at over 50% of the entire stock market's daily trading volume � we have reason to believe that the technically illegal but difficult to prove activity of Naked Short Selling � selling shares without first accounting for them � has been taking place against our company's stock as well.

Volatility of exploration mining stocks is just part and parcel of what takes place in an investment sector where both the risks and the rewards can be sizeable. The keys are to do your financial homework before you invest, and consider position size in relation to your financial goals and circumstances.

Be that as it may, the reality is that, although the short sellers may control our stock's price (for a time), we control the company. And we are going to continue working diligently and doggedly, as we seek to meet our objectives, in the process increasing shareholder value.


What We have Accomplished

If you take time to go through our News Release archive, accessed on site at CMIN you will notice that our Exploration Team has achieved the following:

  • Studied available records of historical drilling in the area. Although these reports were generated in the days before modern reporting requirements, they were quite intriguing!
  • Completed an initial (Phase I) 26 hole drill program designed to "field test" a highly prospective portion of our property.
  • Initiated and completed a (Phase II) 100 hole drill program which identified significant gold values � 4 times the Company's cutoff standard for economic standard - increasing our confidence that economically-viable alluvial deposits might be present.
  • Completed a social baseline study involving a series of meetings with local residents and other stakeholders in the region.
  • Explored Paleo - Placers, within which we have already discovered several "paleo-channels" � pre-historic streambeds - which we believe may have become, over millions of years, the repository for significant amounts of alluvial gold, carried down from the Andes Mountains by the Mara��n River.
  • Conducted ongoing negotiations with several world-class dredging companies regarding the possibility of establishing a large dredging operation on our properties � when and if we determine that significant quantities of economically-recoverable gold values exist.
  • Increased its initial option to purchase 25% interest in the Gold Sands Project to the current 100% ownership.
  • Continued to delineate additional paleo-channels within our property's confines in the overall effort to determine the level of commercially-recoverable gold deposits.
  • Determined the approximate cost of production at $2-3 USD/m3 with a Gold value of $6 USD/m3 (assumes gold at $1,200 USD/ounce).
  • Entered into a Test Production agreement with Swiss Mining S.A.

Where We're Going

During the past 3 years, Constitution Mining has actively evaluated this project and has decided upon the following exploration and drilling protocols.

Trial Mining � 6 months

Based upon recent very encouraging drill results, the Company has entered into an agreement with Swiss Mining S.A. to implement a test/pilot mining project � which is expected to be operational in the First Quarter, 2011.

This 'proof of concept' test mining operation will gauge the feasibility of conducting further large-scale, long-term placer gold recovery operations. It will provide cost inputs so that the Company can determine the price of harvesting gold from these richly-endowed alluvial sands. The results will also be studied to determine if an expanded agreement between the Constitution Mining and Swiss Mining covering a larger area is justified.

Full Scale Mining � 36 months

Constitution Mining's strategic plan is to implement a carefully-staged full scale mining program involving multiple scaled-up units. These units will be self-contained and capable of working through the entire gold acquisition cycle: stripping � mining � recovery � reclamation.

The production capacity of each unit is anticipated to be in the neighborhood of 22,500 ounces/year. 5 � 10 units placed into operation would have the potential to produce 100,000 � 250,000 ounces of gold per year . . . for 25 � 75 years!

Estimated investment to undertake and implement this program: $20 - $30 million USD, with end result development/production costs dependent upon the specifics of an agreement with potential mining partners or contractor(s).

Compare this projected capital expenditure and start-up to full-production time frame with that of an "open pit" operation, which can cost anywhere from $250 million to $1.5 billion, take 8 � 12 years (or more) to reach the same stage that Constitution Mining could be able to achieve at a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of the time � and with a nominal environmental footprint to boot! And whereas many operations have to drill thousands of feet down to find the ore, then build shafts to mine it and hoist it to the surface, harvesting our alluvial gold sands usually involves going down less than 100 feet!


Trial Mining

Last week on January 20th, 2011, Constitution Mining Corp. (CMIN.OB) announced that we had reached a significant milestone by entering into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") agreement with Swiss Mining S.A. to start a test-mining production operation on the Company's Gold Sand's project, located in North-East Peru. As stated in the news release at that time by our CEO Michael Stocker;

"We anticipate that this test mining operation, in partnership with Swiss Mining SA, will provide valuable information with which to help shape and hopefully confirm our hypotheses regarding the suitability and cost of alluvial gold production operations on our Gold Sands properties. We are very pleased to have reached this important milestone in the evolution or our company as we believe that this is a significant step forward from drilling to actual gold production."


Closing Words

You can judge a company's core values by listening to what they say, but even more importantly by watching what they do. What a company (or an individual) does is the outward expression and demonstration of their belief system and its core values.

Constitution Mining Corp's core values revolve around three salient considerations:
Economic � To foster and maintain corporate profitability and growth in order to generate maximum value for you, the shareholder.
Social � To work in an equitable, transparent, and socially responsible manner with local communities, suppliers and employees.
Environmental � To act as stewards of the local/regional eco systems, behaving in an environmentally responsible way, leaving a minimal "footprint" as a result of our operations.

As stated at the beginning of this letter, your Chairman was present "at the creation" of Constitution Mining Corp. He was unavoidably absent recently, dealing successfully with a serious illness that, without his steel-willed determination to survive, an understanding of gratitude, and some help and grace from above, could easily have proven fatal.

He would not have returned once again to become part of the management team, if there had doubts as to the values/goals which this Company holds, and its willingness, insofar as humanly possible, to fulfill those commitments � to shareholders �to the community � to the environment.

How your Chairman feels about Constitution Mining can be summed up in a single, brief sentence: "I believe in the People, the Project, the Time and the Place."

Your management team is convinced, as are many of the foremost experts in the natural resource sector that we are just now heading into the intermediate stages of what is destined to become the greatest bull market in modern history for commodities in general, and for gold and silver in particular. The following quotes from two giants of the precious metals arena give you an idea of where they stand on the issue.

Gold was trading well under $1,000 per ounce, when Pierre Lassonde, Co-Founder of Franco-Nevada Mining Corp/Pres. Newmont Mining was asked what he thought about gold prices going forward. He remarked:

"I believe that gold will have 3 zeros after the first number � I just don't know what the first number will be..."

When John Embry, Chief Investment Strategist at Sprott Asset Management was asked a similar question, he stated without equivocation,

"I believe that we are many years and several thousands of dollars in price away from the end of this powerful bull market."


"Core" numbers and facts for the Gold Sands Project

  • - Constitution Mining controls 461 square kilometres of Gold Sands in north-eastern Peru.
  • - Exploration work undertaken between 2009 and 2010, confirms an immense amount of potential for the project.
  • - Between 2009 �2010, the company executed two drill programs with a total of 126 drill holes to confirm Gold values.
  • - Together with IHC Merwede, the world's biggest dredge construction company, a Master Plan has been established to start production in 2011.
  • - Our costs of production are estimated to be approximately 2-3 USD/m3 with a Gold value of 6 USD/m3 in the drilled out area. (Calculated with Gold at 1200 USD/ounce)
  • - This difference between the cost of production per m3 and the Gold value per m3 is what gives us confidence that we are looking at a highly profitable project.

And by the Way...

Our 14th annual Wealth Protection Conference is coming up in Phoenix on April 22-23, 2011. This will be an opportunity for attendees to listen to and interact with some of the most notable speakers in our industry. They will enlarge your Big Picture about Honest Money and where we may be headed as individuals and as a nation. And you'll be able to learn even more about our company by speaking with your Chairman and other members of the Constitution Mining team.

In closing please consider this old Chinese saying which goes, "To know and not do is the same as not knowing." So, now that you know. . .

We trust that you have found the facts, figures and information about mining in general, and about Constitution Mining Corp in particular, to be of value. As your Chairman says when he speaks to people on his long-running Phoenix area resource sector talk show Hard Money Watch with Pat Gorman ;

"Always seek to gain as much information as possible before you make any kind of investment decision" � telling his listeners that it's always about "Education Before Acquisition".

Perhaps you are reading about us for the first time. If so, keep in mind that if you personally would like more information about Constitution Mining or to get involved with our company, write to us at info@constitutionming.com or just pick up the phone and call 888-401-8322, extension 101, and ask for Adam Ross.


Disclaimer

This Chairman's Letter release contains forward-looking statements that are based on beliefs of Constitution Mining Corp. management and reflect Constitution Mining Corp's current expectations as contemplated under section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. When we use in this release, the words "estimate," "project," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "plan," "predict," "may," "should," "will," "can," the negative of these words, or such other variations thereon, or comparable terminology, are all intended to identify forward looking statements. Such statements reflect the current views of Constitution Mining Corp. with respect to future events based on currently available information and are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to, risks and uncertainties pertaining to development of mining properties, changes in economic conditions and other risks, uncertainties and factors, which may cause the actual results, performance , or achievement expressed or implied by such forward looking statements to differ materially from the forward looking statements. The information contained in this release is historical in nature, has not been updated, and is current only to the date shown in this release. This information may no longer be accurate and therefore you should not rely on the information contained in this release. To the extent permitted by law, Constitution Mining Corp. and its employees, agents and consultants exclude all liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of, or reliance on, any such information, whether or not caused by any negligent act or omission.




By
Constitution Mining Corp Chairman of the Board, Patrick C. Gorman

Profile: Patrick (Pat) C. Gorman is president of Resource Consultants, a brokerage firm specializing in precious metals. For 21 years, Mr. Gorman has hosted Hard Money Watch, the longest-running financial talk radio program in the Phoenix area. He is the author of the best-selling book, The Value of Honest Money and editor of Wealth Protection, a monthly investment newsletter dealing with opportunities in the precious metals and natural resource sector. He is a widely respected a gold and silver market expert.


Dear Friends and Shareholders,

As time goes on at Constitution Mining Corp. we want you the shareholder and interested friend of our company to be updated, educated and informed about the project into which we have poured (and continue to pour!) our expertise and energies. We expect that this inaugural issue of The Chairman's Letter will be one of many you will be receiving from us. In this our first exchange with you, we want to accomplish a number of things in order to "set the stage" for what we believe has the potential to evolve into a very bright future for Constitution Mining Corp and by extension its shareholders.

Of our many thousands of shareholders, a number of you who have been with us at Constitution Mining since it first began as a start-up gold exploration company, know that our desire has always been to build an organization of strong-willed shareholders, like minded people and long term learners who won't give up at the first sign of adversity that comes their way.

We want to let everyone how we began this company and how we intend to continue building it into one of the most exciting, profitable and environmentally-friendly mining concerns in the global resource sector. We'll discuss what we have been up to. We will talk about our outlook for the company - where we intend to go from here, and how � if you're not already a member of our team � you too can get involved with as we move forward.

Enjoy the facts, figures and information in this letter. If you're reading about us here for the first time, keep in mind that if you would like more information about Constitution Mining, write to us at info@constitutionming.com or just pick up the phone and call 888-401-8322, extension 101, and ask for Adam Ross.


How We Got Started

In the spring of 2006 our company, Constitution Mining Corp (CMIN), was first formed. It was a very exciting time, in part because we had long believed that the market was finally ready, not just for another mining exploration company, but rather an "outside the box" operation which had something very special to offer the investing public.

We wanted a company whose business model - which of course focused on exploration for and eventual production of gold, - but also one which was underpinned by a different kind of philosophy. A company that in addition to turning a profit, would do its very best to treat not only the environment, but those with whom it dealt � the locals, workers, and the shareholders - in a fair and equitable way. That philosophy, from our Environmental Pledge, states:

  • "We look out for ourselves when we look out for the land.
  • "We follow all laws and all international mining standards for the protection of the environment. And we go further. Constitution Mining will never willingly contribute to damaging our environment.
  • "We will only seek to develop gold deposits in areas where the work can be done with full respect for the land's natural beauty and its long-term potential for other uses. In Peru, for example the modern dredging and processing methods we believe are best suited for the extraction of gold from our deposits are green and clean. They require no cyanide, mercury or other toxic chemicals.
  • "Whether it is the ongoing advancement of our leading property holdings in the Gold Sands of Peru or anywhere else we have operations, in all circumstances we will work to a high standard of environmental excellence." Not to mention our Mission Statement, written for each News Release:
  • "The Company's goal is to locate large-scale commercially viable gold deposits and continuously increase the amount of gold underlying its outstanding shares. The Company is interested primarily in geographical areas that are home to several significant proven gold deposits, including highly prospective districts likely to hold further large deposits."

At first we looked at several prospective gold properties in Argentina, and for a time held exploration leases on two of them. After taking note of the increasingly unpredictable mining regulatory climate in some of the country's provinces, we began a search which would lead us to the alluvial gold sands deposits along the Mara��n River in Peru.

As our focus changed, we decided it would be in the company's best interest, (and our shareholders) to terminate these agreements in order to concentrate our focus on the Peruvian Gold Sands District project.

Along the way we also entered into an agreement with Seabridge Gold to explore and perhaps develop certain of their Nevada properties. At the same time, our understanding of the possible company-making potential of the Mara��n River's alluvial gold deposits was growing. The Company soon realized that not just our primary, but our undivided focus should be on the acquisition and development of these highly prospective properties.

Therefore, our CEO, the Board of Directors, and your Chairman unanimously decided that Constitution Mining should discontinue its efforts to acquire and delineate the Nevada properties. Management at Seabridge Gold (stated in a press release) agreed, and noted that their offer to us would remain on the table, should we desire to partake of it at a later date.


Our First Steps...

It was in 2008, that our attention was drawn to the highly prospective Gold Sands district of northeastern Peru, located on the Mara��n River a tributary of the mighty Amazon. As stated in a White Paper entitled Plateau of Promise posted on our site here CMIN and a news release by the Company:

"The Gold Sands of Peru were laid down by eons of alluvial erosion. For millions of years, the waters of the Santiago and the Mara��n rivers have been carving their way through the gold-rich mountain canyons of the Andes, carrying off vast amounts of gold and depositing much of the treasure in loose gravels and sands - Gold Sands - below the Manseriche Gorge in Northeastern Peru. There the rivers reach a broad flood plain, slow to a crawl and release their cargo."

After a lot of "due diligence" (including the first trip where at one point, two of our mining consultants, temporarily became lost on the Amazon while scouting out the area!), and narrowing down prospective lease holdings, we decided on what we felt were some of the "best of breed" properties along the Maranon River.

From the very beginning, the Gold Sands district seemed like a good fit for us. If Constitution Mining could "prove up" enough gold to support a commercially-viable large scale dredging operation, the project offered the potential of becoming a real "company maker".


What We've Been Doing

If and when large scale production commences on Constitution Mining's Peruvian Gold Sands properties, a relatively simple, cost-effective and straightforward process is likely to be employed. To get a sense of how such an operation might work, just go to our website by typing in either "constitutionmining.com" or "cmin.com" - or follow the link here to have a look. While you're checking out the dredgers, drop down to the "Latest News"/View all news section. To have all of our news releases delivered promptly to your Inbox when they are sent out on the market wires, just go to the bottom of the page to "Receive official news releases from Constitution Mining"/enter your email address/press Request. You will then be presented with the opportunity to download a free pdf copy of a text written by your Chairman - The Value of Honest Money � a monetary/economic discussion treasure you will find hard to put down once you've begun reading it. Honest Money's message is as relevant today (and will be tomorrow!) as it was when it was first penned.

Before we leased any of the properties along the Mara��n River, our geologists looked at all the historical drilling records they could find. Although they had been put together in the days before NI-43 101 Compliant reporting standards became the law of the land, the extensive drilling program, gave us a lot of confidence that we could be onto something big. And to really drive the point home, virtually all of the holes that we drilled showed the presence of gold.

On October 1, 2008, Constitution Mining Corp. (CMIN.OB) announced that the company had entered into a Mineral Rights Option Agreement to acquire 382 km2 of strategically positioned mining properties in the developing Gold Sands district of northeastern Peru. Our premise, as stated in the news release at that time (and which guides our efforts to this very day) was that,

"The Gold Sands district in northeastern Peru offers the potential for large-scale, low-cost production of gold. Potential, if the indicated gold mineralization in the Gold Sands continues to expand, that may be realized by employing modern dredging and processing methods that do not use cyanide, mercury, or any other disruptive chemical processes."

This takes us back to our mission statement � our desire to use relatively simple (and thus less expensive) excavation and gold production methods involving a smaller ecological footprint than is generally the case with most other mining methods. From the start of our research on the Gold Sands district, it has been the company's belief that should commercially-recoverable gold be discovered, the area would be suitable for the use of modern, large-scale dredging technologies.

Just a month later, in November 2008, Constitution Mining exercised its initial option to purchase a 25% interest in the Mineral Rights for the 382 km2 of mining properties under its review, while retaining the right to purchase the remaining 75% on previously disclosed terms.

Soon thereafter, the Company signed a wide-ranging service contract with a Peruvian mining services company, Logistica y Servicios Aluviales San Lorenzo SAC ("San Lorenzo") to help develop its properties. San Lorenzo contracted MTI Holland BV, a member of the IHC Merwede Group, the world's leading manufacturer of innovative Gold Sands dredging and processing equipment, to assist with technical development of our company's 382 km2 (currently 461 km2) Gold Sands property. MTI was tasked with providing guidance and advice regarding:

  • Preparation of the preliminary exploration and project development plan
  • Drilling, sample taking, sample processing, and reporting procedures
  • Development of a conceptual master plan, including estimation of production rates and the associated equipment requirements with a view to completing a scoping study to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of the Gold Sands project. This study was designed to include a geotechnical analysis, equipment selection, cost determinations and cash flow modeling,

A productive tour of our properties was undertaken by the managing director of MTI Holland B.V. a leading research and development institute for dredging, dredge mining and dredge equipment, and member of the IHC Merwede group.

Henk Van Muijen the Managing director of the MIT Institute stated during his visit:
"The exploration program is run with a professional attitude following well established procedures..."�Based on this model (the depositing model of the Rio Mara��n Basin), more in-depth exploration can be executed which might result in deposits that can sustain large dredge mining operations. In this respect, it was encouraging to visit a recently discovered outcrop of a paleo-channel (meaning 'old channel' - remnant of a stream channel cut into older rock and later filled by sediments of younger rock)."


Constitution Mining's Commitment to the Environment

Constitution Mining's strong commitment to the environment led it to contract with AMEC Earth and Environmental - one of the world's leading environmental and engineering consulting organizations with a strong reputation as a provider of safe and sustainable solutions - to ensure that the appropriate environmental studies and advanced permitting processes were initiated so as not to result in undue delays in project development.

In April 2009, the Company announced successful completion of a social base line study following a series of individual and community meetings held with local residents, which identified the social and economic realities of developing the Gold Sands district. This included meetings and interviews with stakeholders, conducted with the help of the Company's Community Relations Officer, CMIN's industry partners and a workshop organized by the company.

The program provided an opportunity for the Company to articulate and demonstrate in a transparent and continuous way its commitment to sustainable development in relationship with local communities with respect to local culture, values, traditions and the environment.

Our President and CEO Michael Stocker remarked:

"Having identified the needs of the surrounding communities, we have established a workable plan that can create a long lasting win-win relationship for our shareholders, local residents and Peru in general...The fact that we are introducing 'clean and green' mining methods and technologies to extract gold from the host sands and gravels was key to gaining broad community support. We aim to be a shining example of how 21st century mining can achieve excellence in environmental standards, in addition to being able to successfully marry local community interests to those of our shareholders."

In a Community Workshop, as mandated under Peruvian law and with officials from the Ministry of Mining and Energy officials in attendance, local authority representatives offered all necessary support, and later granted unanimous approval to our company.


How Mining Exploration Companies are Financed

Most exploration companies are out there looking for deposits of a valuable metal � in our case gold, that are large and accessible enough to be mined and sold on the market at a profit. Until such a deposit has been discovered and delineated, an exploration company usually does not have an income stream, so from time to time, in order to fund its operations it needs to seek outside financing. This is a truism for virtually all publicly-traded exploration companies. That is why in our news releases you will see a disclaimer stating, "The full implementation of these programs will require the Company to secure additional financing.

Our goal is to be able to secure ongoing financing in such a way that shareholder dilution is minimized, and to spend these funds in a manner maximizing their value to furthering the Company's stated goals � at the same time striving to create added value for you the shareholder.

If and when the exploration team is able to "prove up" a property � indicating that its ore body can be mined profitably, it has several options. It might strike a joint venture (JV) arrangement with another mining company. It could sell its property to a larger producer � if agreed upon by both parties, it would be classified as a "friendly takeover". Or the exploration company might decide to go into production itself, seeking additional outside financing in order to do so.

If you would like more information about Constitution Mining, write to us at info@constitutionming.com or just pick up the phone and call 888-401-8322, extension 101, and ask for Adam Ross.


How Alluvial Gold is Mined

It's important that we take just a minute to clear up some misconceptions about the type of alluvial gold (called "placer" by the Spaniards) found in the Gold Sands district, as well as how it is "mined" in comparison to, say hard rock or open pit production techniques.

Hard rock mining (in non-technical terms) is basically carried out by blasting/digging large amounts of gold-bearing ore out of the ground � often at depths thousands of feet underground. It is brought to the surface, where it is crushed, piled and "leached" with a chemical bath, often using cyanide, in order to begin separating the gold and other (often base metals) metals from the surrounding rock. Other types of ore separation can be used, some involving a "flotation circuit" where the gold is lifted away from other mineralization present during refinement.

Another method of obtaining ore closer to the surface is known as Open Pit mining. Here ore is excavated from the ground, going down from the surface in concentric rings. Ore is trucked to the top in massive trucks costing $2 million a copy, then crushed and spread out on large, lined "leach pads" and as with hard rock mining, sprayed with a chemical bath in order to separate the gold and other metals contained therein.

These methods are time-consuming, expensive and can be disruptive to the area being mined � necessitating a complicated and costly "mitigation" process once the commercially-valuable resource of the area has been "mined out". Many jurisdictions require funds be set aside by a company well before construction of a new mine and mill can even be undertaken.

In comparison to these complicated, costly and time-consuming processes, the alluvial gold removed from Constitution Mining's Gold Sands paleo-placers is likely to be more direct, efficient, and yes, much less expensive. In fact, alluvial mining equipment can cost less than 20% as much as the kind of open pit machinery needed to accomplish the same task. And we're looking to access gold at depths of no more than 30 � 50 meters! All of which could translate into greater... profitability.

Under a full-production scenario, one or more dredgers would feed a floating plant. This plant would be a self-contained operational unit carrying out the entire cycle, beginning with stripping, then mining and recovery, and finally reclamation.


How Gold Values are Measured

Most investors are used to hearing about gold mining deposits being measured in terms of grams per ton. For example, an extensive underground deposit containing 3 or 4 grams of gold per ton of ore rock is generally considered to offer the likelihood that a commercially viable operation can be undertaken. For open pit operations, much lower grades, sometimes less than 1 gram per ton, can still be profitable � depending of course upon the going market rate for an ounce of gold.

Alluvial (placer) gold values measurement is entirely different. First the ore throughput, consisting generally of graveled/sedimentary deposits is measured not in tons, but rather in cubic meters. And the yield is spoken of, not in terms of grams per ton, but rather milligrams/cubic meter.

To place the likely yields of these three mining methodologies in context, consider the following:

Average grades for an Underground mine can run from 5 � 15 grams/ton; for an Open Pit, you could be looking at .50- 1.50 grams/ton. A Placer gold operation might come in at .05 - .15 grams per ton. (Keep in mind, as stated earlier, that alluvial/placer operations measure the ore-bearing throughput of a production process in cubic meters, rather than tons.)

Though at first glance, alluvial deposits might seem to be of relatively low grade compared to a hard rock mining operation, the reality is that their much lower production cost, as well as the straightforward nature and simplicity of processing Paleo-Placers, means that these fine-grained gold deposits can be mined at a substantial profit.

Our V.P. of Exploration, Jim Prudden has observed:

"At our Gold Sands Project, we have found grades up to +700mg/m3 Au. The first consistent report recorded 161mg/m3. There are several other places in the world which are in production with grades lower than 100mg/m3. For example, an alluvial gold mining operation in Colombia is running profitably, accessing placer gold values that are substantially lower than some of the drilling results thus far discovered on Constitution Mining's Gold Sands properties (144mg/m3)."

To put this into further perspective, consider that Grey River and Fox Creek, two dredge operations near Arahura, New Zealand, operate profitably on throughput placer materials running 60 mg/m3 and 143 mg/m3 of gold respectively. As noted previously, during some of Constitution Mining's delineation efforts "color" is indicating gold grades that are nearly 4 times the level at which the aforementioned placer operations are conducting a profitable business!

Our mining team has determined approximate cost of production at $2-3 USD/m3 with a Gold value of $6 USD/m3 (assumes gold at $1,200 USD/ounce).

When calculated using gold values observed in the Second Channel during the Phase II Drill hole program as a basis, and with a cutoff value of 50 mg/cm3 (using the middle of the estimated range and assuming $1,200 gold), it can mathematically be shown that mining this channel would cost around $370/ounce of retrieved gold.

Many hard rock/open pit mining operations today report their mining cost of gold acquisition to be in the neighborhood of $650 - $700 + the ounce. If our company's alluvial gold values which the drill teams have been finding remain reasonably constant and we acknowledge that this is a big "if", Constitution Mining's projected cost of $370/ounce would compare very favorably with hard rock/open pit operations - coming in at around one-half the cost. Or stated another way � at twice the profit!


Why an Exploration company stock price (yes, ours too!) can be so Volatile

Our company has a fairly large share float on the Over the Counter (OTCC: BB) market. This can be good, in that lots of liquidity can give buyers and sellers the opportunity to efficiently trade their shares. Indeed, it is not uncommon for CMIN to trade between one and two million shares during a single day's market session.

However it can be a negative in that this same liquidity presents an opportunity for "black box" traders (through the use of tightly-spaced computer-driven buy and sell orders) to drive our share price up and down on big volume, even when there is no news to account for such volatility In addition to this disconcerting, but not unusual practice � some estimates place Black Box activity at over 50% of the entire stock market's daily trading volume � we have reason to believe that the technically illegal but difficult to prove activity of Naked Short Selling � selling shares without first accounting for them � has been taking place against our company's stock as well.

Volatility of exploration mining stocks is just part and parcel of what takes place in an investment sector where both the risks and the rewards can be sizeable. The keys are to do your financial homework before you invest, and consider position size in relation to your financial goals and circumstances.

Be that as it may, the reality is that, although the short sellers may control our stock's price (for a time), we control the company. And we are going to continue working diligently and doggedly, as we seek to meet our objectives, in the process increasing shareholder value.


What We have Accomplished

If you take time to go through our News Release archive, accessed on site at CMIN you will notice that our Exploration Team has achieved the following:

  • Studied available records of historical drilling in the area. Although these reports were generated in the days before modern reporting requirements, they were quite intriguing!
  • Completed an initial (Phase I) 26 hole drill program designed to "field test" a highly prospective portion of our property.
  • Initiated and completed a (Phase II) 100 hole drill program which identified significant gold values � 4 times the Company's cutoff standard for economic standard - increasing our confidence that economically-viable alluvial deposits might be present.
  • Completed a social baseline study involving a series of meetings with local residents and other stakeholders in the region.
  • Explored Paleo - Placers, within which we have already discovered several "paleo-channels" � pre-historic streambeds - which we believe may have become, over millions of years, the repository for significant amounts of alluvial gold, carried down from the Andes Mountains by the Mara��n River.
  • Conducted ongoing negotiations with several world-class dredging companies regarding the possibility of establishing a large dredging operation on our properties � when and if we determine that significant quantities of economically-recoverable gold values exist.
  • Increased its initial option to purchase 25% interest in the Gold Sands Project to the current 100% ownership.
  • Continued to delineate additional paleo-channels within our property's confines in the overall effort to determine the level of commercially-recoverable gold deposits.
  • Determined the approximate cost of production at $2-3 USD/m3 with a Gold value of $6 USD/m3 (assumes gold at $1,200 USD/ounce).
  • Entered into a Test Production agreement with Swiss Mining S.A.

Where We're Going

During the past 3 years, Constitution Mining has actively evaluated this project and has decided upon the following exploration and drilling protocols.

Trial Mining � 6 months

Based upon recent very encouraging drill results, the Company has entered into an agreement with Swiss Mining S.A. to implement a test/pilot mining project � which is expected to be operational in the First Quarter, 2011.

This 'proof of concept' test mining operation will gauge the feasibility of conducting further large-scale, long-term placer gold recovery operations. It will provide cost inputs so that the Company can determine the price of harvesting gold from these richly-endowed alluvial sands. The results will also be studied to determine if an expanded agreement between the Constitution Mining and Swiss Mining covering a larger area is justified.

Full Scale Mining � 36 months

Constitution Mining's strategic plan is to implement a carefully-staged full scale mining program involving multiple scaled-up units. These units will be self-contained and capable of working through the entire gold acquisition cycle: stripping � mining � recovery � reclamation.

The production capacity of each unit is anticipated to be in the neighborhood of 22,500 ounces/year. 5 � 10 units placed into operation would have the potential to produce 100,000 � 250,000 ounces of gold per year . . . for 25 � 75 years!

Estimated investment to undertake and implement this program: $20 - $30 million USD, with end result development/production costs dependent upon the specifics of an agreement with potential mining partners or contractor(s).

Compare this projected capital expenditure and start-up to full-production time frame with that of an "open pit" operation, which can cost anywhere from $250 million to $1.5 billion, take 8 � 12 years (or more) to reach the same stage that Constitution Mining could be able to achieve at a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of the time � and with a nominal environmental footprint to boot! And whereas many operations have to drill thousands of feet down to find the ore, then build shafts to mine it and hoist it to the surface, harvesting our alluvial gold sands usually involves going down less than 100 feet!


Trial Mining

Last week on January 20th, 2011, Constitution Mining Corp. (CMIN.OB) announced that we had reached a significant milestone by entering into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") agreement with Swiss Mining S.A. to start a test-mining production operation on the Company's Gold Sand's project, located in North-East Peru. As stated in the news release at that time by our CEO Michael Stocker;

"We anticipate that this test mining operation, in partnership with Swiss Mining SA, will provide valuable information with which to help shape and hopefully confirm our hypotheses regarding the suitability and cost of alluvial gold production operations on our Gold Sands properties. We are very pleased to have reached this important milestone in the evolution or our company as we believe that this is a significant step forward from drilling to actual gold production."


Closing Words

You can judge a company's core values by listening to what they say, but even more importantly by watching what they do. What a company (or an individual) does is the outward expression and demonstration of their belief system and its core values.

Constitution Mining Corp's core values revolve around three salient considerations:
Economic � To foster and maintain corporate profitability and growth in order to generate maximum value for you, the shareholder.
Social � To work in an equitable, transparent, and socially responsible manner with local communities, suppliers and employees.
Environmental � To act as stewards of the local/regional eco systems, behaving in an environmentally responsible way, leaving a minimal "footprint" as a result of our operations.

As stated at the beginning of this letter, your Chairman was present "at the creation" of Constitution Mining Corp. He was unavoidably absent recently, dealing successfully with a serious illness that, without his steel-willed determination to survive, an understanding of gratitude, and some help and grace from above, could easily have proven fatal.

He would not have returned once again to become part of the management team, if there had doubts as to the values/goals which this Company holds, and its willingness, insofar as humanly possible, to fulfill those commitments � to shareholders �to the community � to the environment.

How your Chairman feels about Constitution Mining can be summed up in a single, brief sentence: "I believe in the People, the Project, the Time and the Place."

Your management team is convinced, as are many of the foremost experts in the natural resource sector that we are just now heading into the intermediate stages of what is destined to become the greatest bull market in modern history for commodities in general, and for gold and silver in particular. The following quotes from two giants of the precious metals arena give you an idea of where they stand on the issue.

Gold was trading well under $1,000 per ounce, when Pierre Lassonde, Co-Founder of Franco-Nevada Mining Corp/Pres. Newmont Mining was asked what he thought about gold prices going forward. He remarked:

"I believe that gold will have 3 zeros after the first number � I just don't know what the first number will be..."

When John Embry, Chief Investment Strategist at Sprott Asset Management was asked a similar question, he stated without equivocation,

"I believe that we are many years and several thousands of dollars in price away from the end of this powerful bull market."


"Core" numbers and facts for the Gold Sands Project

  • - Constitution Mining controls 461 square kilometres of Gold Sands in north-eastern Peru.
  • - Exploration work undertaken between 2009 and 2010, confirms an immense amount of potential for the project.
  • - Between 2009 �2010, the company executed two drill programs with a total of 126 drill holes to confirm Gold values.
  • - Together with IHC Merwede, the world's biggest dredge construction company, a Master Plan has been established to start production in 2011.
  • - Our costs of production are estimated to be approximately 2-3 USD/m3 with a Gold value of 6 USD/m3 in the drilled out area. (Calculated with Gold at 1200 USD/ounce)
  • - This difference between the cost of production per m3 and the Gold value per m3 is what gives us confidence that we are looking at a highly profitable project.

And by the Way...

Our 14th annual Wealth Protection Conference is coming up in Phoenix on April 22-23, 2011. This will be an opportunity for attendees to listen to and interact with some of the most notable speakers in our industry. They will enlarge your Big Picture about Honest Money and where we may be headed as individuals and as a nation. And you'll be able to learn even more about our company by speaking with your Chairman and other members of the Constitution Mining team.

In closing please consider this old Chinese saying which goes, "To know and not do is the same as not knowing." So, now that you know. . .

We trust that you have found the facts, figures and information about mining in general, and about Constitution Mining Corp in particular, to be of value. As your Chairman says when he speaks to people on his long-running Phoenix area resource sector talk show Hard Money Watch with Pat Gorman ;

"Always seek to gain as much information as possible before you make any kind of investment decision" � telling his listeners that it's always about "Education Before Acquisition".

Perhaps you are reading about us for the first time. If so, keep in mind that if you personally would like more information about Constitution Mining or to get involved with our company, write to us at info@constitutionming.com or just pick up the phone and call 888-401-8322, extension 101, and ask for Adam Ross.


Disclaimer

This Chairman's Letter release contains forward-looking statements that are based on beliefs of Constitution Mining Corp. management and reflect Constitution Mining Corp's current expectations as contemplated under section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. When we use in this release, the words "estimate," "project," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "plan," "predict," "may," "should," "will," "can," the negative of these words, or such other variations thereon, or comparable terminology, are all intended to identify forward looking statements. Such statements reflect the current views of Constitution Mining Corp. with respect to future events based on currently available information and are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to, risks and uncertainties pertaining to development of mining properties, changes in economic conditions and other risks, uncertainties and factors, which may cause the actual results, performance , or achievement expressed or implied by such forward looking statements to differ materially from the forward looking statements. The information contained in this release is historical in nature, has not been updated, and is current only to the date shown in this release. This information may no longer be accurate and therefore you should not rely on the information contained in this release. To the extent permitted by law, Constitution Mining Corp. and its employees, agents and consultants exclude all liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of, or reliance on, any such information, whether or not caused by any negligent act or omission.



or just pick up the phone and call 888-401-8322, extension 101, and ask for Adam Ross.


How We Got Started

In the spring of 2006 our company, Constitution Mining Corp (CMIN), was first formed. It was a very exciting time, in part because we had long believed that the market was finally ready, not just for another mining exploration company, but rather an "outside the box" operation which had something very special to offer the investing public.

We wanted a company whose business model - which of course focused on exploration for and eventual production of gold, - but also one which was underpinned by a different kind of philosophy. A company that in addition to turning a profit, would do its very best to treat not only the environment, but those with whom it dealt � the locals, workers, and the shareholders - in a fair and equitable way. That philosophy, from our Environmental Pledge, states:

  • "We look out for ourselves when we look out for the land.
  • "We follow all laws and all international mining standards for the protection of the environment. And we go further. Constitution Mining will never willingly contribute to damaging our environment.
  • "We will only seek to develop gold deposits in areas where the work can be done with full respect for the land's natural beauty and its long-term potential for other uses. In Peru, for example the modern dredging and processing methods we believe are best suited for the extraction of gold from our deposits are green and clean. They require no cyanide, mercury or other toxic chemicals.
  • "Whether it is the ongoing advancement of our leading property holdings in the Gold Sands of Peru or anywhere else we have operations, in all circumstances we will work to a high standard of environmental excellence." Not to mention our Mission Statement, written for each News Release:
  • "The Company's goal is to locate large-scale commercially viable gold deposits and continuously increase the amount of gold underlying its outstanding shares. The Company is interested primarily in geographical areas that are home to several significant proven gold deposits, including highly prospective districts likely to hold further large deposits."

At first we looked at several prospective gold properties in Argentina, and for a time held exploration leases on two of them. After taking note of the increasingly unpredictable mining regulatory climate in some of the country's provinces, we began a search which would lead us to the alluvial gold sands deposits along the Mara��n River in Peru.

As our focus changed, we decided it would be in the company's best interest, (and our shareholders) to terminate these agreements in order to concentrate our focus on the Peruvian Gold Sands District project.

Along the way we also entered into an agreement with Seabridge Gold to explore and perhaps develop certain of their Nevada properties. At the same time, our understanding of the possible company-making potential of the Mara��n River's alluvial gold deposits was growing. The Company soon realized that not just our primary, but our undivided focus should be on the acquisition and development of these highly prospective properties.

Therefore, our CEO, the Board of Directors, and your Chairman unanimously decided that Constitution Mining should discontinue its efforts to acquire and delineate the Nevada properties. Management at Seabridge Gold (stated in a press release) agreed, and noted that their offer to us would remain on the table, should we desire to partake of it at a later date.


Our First Steps...

It was in 2008, that our attention was drawn to the highly prospective Gold Sands district of northeastern Peru, located on the Mara��n River a tributary of the mighty Amazon. As stated in a White Paper entitled Plateau of Promise posted on our site here CMIN and a news release by the Company:

"The Gold Sands of Peru were laid down by eons of alluvial erosion. For millions of years, the waters of the Santiago and the Mara��n rivers have been carving their way through the gold-rich mountain canyons of the Andes, carrying off vast amounts of gold and depositing much of the treasure in loose gravels and sands - Gold Sands - below the Manseriche Gorge in Northeastern Peru. There the rivers reach a broad flood plain, slow to a crawl and release their cargo."

After a lot of "due diligence" (including the first trip where at one point, two of our mining consultants, temporarily became lost on the Amazon while scouting out the area!), and narrowing down prospective lease holdings, we decided on what we felt were some of the "best of breed" properties along the Maranon River.

From the very beginning, the Gold Sands district seemed like a good fit for us. If Constitution Mining could "prove up" enough gold to support a commercially-viable large scale dredging operation, the project offered the potential of becoming a real "company maker".


What We've Been Doing

If and when large scale production commences on Constitution Mining's Peruvian Gold Sands properties, a relatively simple, cost-effective and straightforward process is likely to be employed. To get a sense of how such an operation might work, just go to our website by typing in either "constitutionmining.com" or "cmin.com" - or follow the link here to have a look. While you're checking out the dredgers, drop down to the "Latest News"/View all news section. To have all of our news releases delivered promptly to your Inbox when they are sent out on the market wires, just go to the bottom of the page to "Receive official news releases from Constitution Mining"/enter your email address/press Request. You will then be presented with the opportunity to download a free pdf copy of a text written by your Chairman - The Value of Honest Money � a monetary/economic discussion treasure you will find hard to put down once you've begun reading it. Honest Money's message is as relevant today (and will be tomorrow!) as it was when it was first penned.

Before we leased any of the properties along the Mara��n River, our geologists looked at all the historical drilling records they could find. Although they had been put together in the days before NI-43 101 Compliant reporting standards became the law of the land, the extensive drilling program, gave us a lot of confidence that we could be onto something big. And to really drive the point home, virtually all of the holes that we drilled showed the presence of gold.

On October 1, 2008, Constitution Mining Corp. (CMIN.OB) announced that the company had entered into a Mineral Rights Option Agreement to acquire 382 km2 of strategically positioned mining properties in the developing Gold Sands district of northeastern Peru. Our premise, as stated in the news release at that time (and which guides our efforts to this very day) was that,

"The Gold Sands district in northeastern Peru offers the potential for large-scale, low-cost production of gold. Potential, if the indicated gold mineralization in the Gold Sands continues to expand, that may be realized by employing modern dredging and processing methods that do not use cyanide, mercury, or any other disruptive chemical processes."

This takes us back to our mission statement � our desire to use relatively simple (and thus less expensive) excavation and gold production methods involving a smaller ecological footprint than is generally the case with most other mining methods. From the start of our research on the Gold Sands district, it has been the company's belief that should commercially-recoverable gold be discovered, the area would be suitable for the use of modern, large-scale dredging technologies.

Just a month later, in November 2008, Constitution Mining exercised its initial option to purchase a 25% interest in the Mineral Rights for the 382 km2 of mining properties under its review, while retaining the right to purchase the remaining 75% on previously disclosed terms.

Soon thereafter, the Company signed a wide-ranging service contract with a Peruvian mining services company, Logistica y Servicios Aluviales San Lorenzo SAC ("San Lorenzo") to help develop its properties. San Lorenzo contracted MTI Holland BV, a member of the IHC Merwede Group, the world's leading manufacturer of innovative Gold Sands dredging and processing equipment, to assist with technical development of our company's 382 km2 (currently 461 km2) Gold Sands property. MTI was tasked with providing guidance and advice regarding:

  • Preparation of the preliminary exploration and project development plan
  • Drilling, sample taking, sample processing, and reporting procedures
  • Development of a conceptual master plan, including estimation of production rates and the associated equipment requirements with a view to completing a scoping study to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of the Gold Sands project. This study was designed to include a geotechnical analysis, equipment selection, cost determinations and cash flow modeling,

A productive tour of our properties was undertaken by the managing director of MTI Holland B.V. a leading research and development institute for dredging, dredge mining and dredge equipment, and member of the IHC Merwede group.

Henk Van Muijen the Managing director of the MIT Institute stated during his visit:
"The exploration program is run with a professional attitude following well established procedures..."�Based on this model (the depositing model of the Rio Mara��n Basin), more in-depth exploration can be executed which might result in deposits that can sustain large dredge mining operations. In this respect, it was encouraging to visit a recently discovered outcrop of a paleo-channel (meaning 'old channel' - remnant of a stream channel cut into older rock and later filled by sediments of younger rock)."


Constitution Mining's Commitment to the Environment

Constitution Mining's strong commitment to the environment led it to contract with AMEC Earth and Environmental - one of the world's leading environmental and engineering consulting organizations with a strong reputation as a provider of safe and sustainable solutions - to ensure that the appropriate environmental studies and advanced permitting processes were initiated so as not to result in undue delays in project development.

In April 2009, the Company announced successful completion of a social base line study following a series of individual and community meetings held with local residents, which identified the social and economic realities of developing the Gold Sands district. This included meetings and interviews with stakeholders, conducted with the help of the Company's Community Relations Officer, CMIN's industry partners and a workshop organized by the company.

The program provided an opportunity for the Company to articulate and demonstrate in a transparent and continuous way its commitment to sustainable development in relationship with local communities with respect to local culture, values, traditions and the environment.

Our President and CEO Michael Stocker remarked:

"Having identified the needs of the surrounding communities, we have established a workable plan that can create a long lasting win-win relationship for our shareholders, local residents and Peru in general...The fact that we are introducing 'clean and green' mining methods and technologies to extract gold from the host sands and gravels was key to gaining broad community support. We aim to be a shining example of how 21st century mining can achieve excellence in environmental standards, in addition to being able to successfully marry local community interests to those of our shareholders."

In a Community Workshop, as mandated under Peruvian law and with officials from the Ministry of Mining and Energy officials in attendance, local authority representatives offered all necessary support, and later granted unanimous approval to our company.


How Mining Exploration Companies are Financed

Most exploration companies are out there looking for deposits of a valuable metal � in our case gold, that are large and accessible enough to be mined and sold on the market at a profit. Until such a deposit has been discovered and delineated, an exploration company usually does not have an income stream, so from time to time, in order to fund its operations it needs to seek outside financing. This is a truism for virtually all publicly-traded exploration companies. That is why in our news releases you will see a disclaimer stating, "The full implementation of these programs will require the Company to secure additional financing.

Our goal is to be able to secure ongoing financing in such a way that shareholder dilution is minimized, and to spend these funds in a manner maximizing their value to furthering the Company's stated goals � at the same time striving to create added value for you the shareholder.

If and when the exploration team is able to "prove up" a property � indicating that its ore body can be mined profitably, it has several options. It might strike a joint venture (JV) arrangement with another mining company. It could sell its property to a larger producer � if agreed upon by both parties, it would be classified as a "friendly takeover". Or the exploration company might decide to go into production itself, seeking additional outside financing in order to do so.

If you would like more information about Constitution Mining, write to us at info@constitutionming.com or just pick up the phone and call 888-401-8322, extension 101, and ask for Adam Ross.


How Alluvial Gold is Mined

It's important that we take just a minute to clear up some misconceptions about the type of alluvial gold (called "placer" by the Spaniards) found in the Gold Sands district, as well as how it is "mined" in comparison to, say hard rock or open pit production techniques.

Hard rock mining (in non-technical terms) is basically carried out by blasting/digging large amounts of gold-bearing ore out of the ground � often at depths thousands of feet underground. It is brought to the surface, where it is crushed, piled and "leached" with a chemical bath, often using cyanide, in order to begin separating the gold and other (often base metals) metals from the surrounding rock. Other types of ore separation can be used, some involving a "flotation circuit" where the gold is lifted away from other mineralization present during refinement.

Another method of obtaining ore closer to the surface is known as Open Pit mining. Here ore is excavated from the ground, going down from the surface in concentric rings. Ore is trucked to the top in massive trucks costing $2 million a copy, then crushed and spread out on large, lined "leach pads" and as with hard rock mining, sprayed with a chemical bath in order to separate the gold and other metals contained therein.

These methods are time-consuming, expensive and can be disruptive to the area being mined � necessitating a complicated and costly "mitigation" process once the commercially-valuable resource of the area has been "mined out". Many jurisdictions require funds be set aside by a company well before construction of a new mine and mill can even be undertaken.

In comparison to these complicated, costly and time-consuming processes, the alluvial gold removed from Constitution Mining's Gold Sands paleo-placers is likely to be more direct, efficient, and yes, much less expensive. In fact, alluvial mining equipment can cost less than 20% as much as the kind of open pit machinery needed to accomplish the same task. And we're looking to access gold at depths of no more than 30 � 50 meters! All of which could translate into greater... profitability.

Under a full-production scenario, one or more dredgers would feed a floating plant. This plant would be a self-contained operational unit carrying out the entire cycle, beginning with stripping, then mining and recovery, and finally reclamation.


How Gold Values are Measured

Most investors are used to hearing about gold mining deposits being measured in terms of grams per ton. For example, an extensive underground deposit containing 3 or 4 grams of gold per ton of ore rock is generally considered to offer the likelihood that a commercially viable operation can be undertaken. For open pit operations, much lower grades, sometimes less than 1 gram per ton, can still be profitable � depending of course upon the going market rate for an ounce of gold.

Alluvial (placer) gold values measurement is entirely different. First the ore throughput, consisting generally of graveled/sedimentary deposits is measured not in tons, but rather in cubic meters. And the yield is spoken of, not in terms of grams per ton, but rather milligrams/cubic meter.

To place the likely yields of these three mining methodologies in context, consider the following:

Average grades for an Underground mine can run from 5 � 15 grams/ton; for an Open Pit, you could be looking at .50- 1.50 grams/ton. A Placer gold operation might come in at .05 - .15 grams per ton. (Keep in mind, as stated earlier, that alluvial/placer operations measure the ore-bearing throughput of a production process in cubic meters, rather than tons.)

Though at first glance, alluvial deposits might seem to be of relatively low grade compared to a hard rock mining operation, the reality is that their much lower production cost, as well as the straightforward nature and simplicity of processing Paleo-Placers, means that these fine-grained gold deposits can be mined at a substantial profit.

Our V.P. of Exploration, Jim Prudden has observed:

"At our Gold Sands Project, we have found grades up to +700mg/m3 Au. The first consistent report recorded 161mg/m3. There are several other places in the world which are in production with grades lower than 100mg/m3. For example, an alluvial gold mining operation in Colombia is running profitably, accessing placer gold values that are substantially lower than some of the drilling results thus far discovered on Constitution Mining's Gold Sands properties (144mg/m3)."

To put this into further perspective, consider that Grey River and Fox Creek, two dredge operations near Arahura, New Zealand, operate profitably on throughput placer materials running 60 mg/m3 and 143 mg/m3 of gold respectively. As noted previously, during some of Constitution Mining's delineation efforts "color" is indicating gold grades that are nearly 4 times the level at which the aforementioned placer operations are conducting a profitable business!

Our mining team has determined approximate cost of production at $2-3 USD/m3 with a Gold value of $6 USD/m3 (assumes gold at $1,200 USD/ounce).

When calculated using gold values observed in the Second Channel during the Phase II Drill hole program as a basis, and with a cutoff value of 50 mg/cm3 (using the middle of the estimated range and assuming $1,200 gold), it can mathematically be shown that mining this channel would cost around $370/ounce of retrieved gold.

Many hard rock/open pit mining operations today report their mining cost of gold acquisition to be in the neighborhood of $650 - $700 + the ounce. If our company's alluvial gold values which the drill teams have been finding remain reasonably constant and we acknowledge that this is a big "if", Constitution Mining's projected cost of $370/ounce would compare very favorably with hard rock/open pit operations - coming in at around one-half the cost. Or stated another way � at twice the profit!


Why an Exploration company stock price (yes, ours too!) can be so Volatile

Our company has a fairly large share float on the Over the Counter (OTCC: BB) market. This can be good, in that lots of liquidity can give buyers and sellers the opportunity to efficiently trade their shares. Indeed, it is not uncommon for CMIN to trade between one and two million shares during a single day's market session.

However it can be a negative in that this same liquidity presents an opportunity for "black box" traders (through the use of tightly-spaced computer-driven buy and sell orders) to drive our share price up and down on big volume, even when there is no news to account for such volatility In addition to this disconcerting, but not unusual practice � some estimates place Black Box activity at over 50% of the entire stock market's daily trading volume � we have reason to believe that the technically illegal but difficult to prove activity of Naked Short Selling � selling shares without first accounting for them � has been taking place against our company's stock as well.

Volatility of exploration mining stocks is just part and parcel of what takes place in an investment sector where both the risks and the rewards can be sizeable. The keys are to do your financial homework before you invest, and consider position size in relation to your financial goals and circumstances.

Be that as it may, the reality is that, although the short sellers may control our stock's price (for a time), we control the company. And we are going to continue working diligently and doggedly, as we seek to meet our objectives, in the process increasing shareholder value.


What We have Accomplished

If you take time to go through our News Release archive, accessed on site at CMIN you will notice that our Exploration Team has achieved the following:

  • Studied available records of historical drilling in the area. Although these reports were generated in the days before modern reporting requirements, they were quite intriguing!
  • Completed an initial (Phase I) 26 hole drill program designed to "field test" a highly prospective portion of our property.
  • Initiated and completed a (Phase II) 100 hole drill program which identified significant gold values � 4 times the Company's cutoff standard for economic standard - increasing our confidence that economically-viable alluvial deposits might be present.
  • Completed a social baseline study involving a series of meetings with local residents and other stakeholders in the region.
  • Explored Paleo - Placers, within which we have already discovered several "paleo-channels" � pre-historic streambeds - which we believe may have become, over millions of years, the repository for significant amounts of alluvial gold, carried down from the Andes Mountains by the Mara��n River.
  • Conducted ongoing negotiations with several world-class dredging companies regarding the possibility of establishing a large dredging operation on our properties � when and if we determine that significant quantities of economically-recoverable gold values exist.
  • Increased its initial option to purchase 25% interest in the Gold Sands Project to the current 100% ownership.
  • Continued to delineate additional paleo-channels within our property's confines in the overall effort to determine the level of commercially-recoverable gold deposits.
  • Determined the approximate cost of production at $2-3 USD/m3 with a Gold value of $6 USD/m3 (assumes gold at $1,200 USD/ounce).
  • Entered into a Test Production agreement with Swiss Mining S.A.

Where We're Going

During the past 3 years, Constitution Mining has actively evaluated this project and has decided upon the following exploration and drilling protocols.

Trial Mining � 6 months

Based upon recent very encouraging drill results, the Company has entered into an agreement with Swiss Mining S.A. to implement a test/pilot mining project � which is expected to be operational in the First Quarter, 2011.

This 'proof of concept' test mining operation will gauge the feasibility of conducting further large-scale, long-term placer gold recovery operations. It will provide cost inputs so that the Company can determine the price of harvesting gold from these richly-endowed alluvial sands. The results will also be studied to determine if an expanded agreement between the Constitution Mining and Swiss Mining covering a larger area is justified.

Full Scale Mining � 36 months

Constitution Mining's strategic plan is to implement a carefully-staged full scale mining program involving multiple scaled-up units. These units will be self-contained and capable of working through the entire gold acquisition cycle: stripping � mining � recovery � reclamation.

The production capacity of each unit is anticipated to be in the neighborhood of 22,500 ounces/year. 5 � 10 units placed into operation would have the potential to produce 100,000 � 250,000 ounces of gold per year . . . for 25 � 75 years!

Estimated investment to undertake and implement this program: $20 - $30 million USD, with end result development/production costs dependent upon the specifics of an agreement with potential mining partners or contractor(s).

Compare this projected capital expenditure and start-up to full-production time frame with that of an "open pit" operation, which can cost anywhere from $250 million to $1.5 billion, take 8 � 12 years (or more) to reach the same stage that Constitution Mining could be able to achieve at a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of the time � and with a nominal environmental footprint to boot! And whereas many operations have to drill thousands of feet down to find the ore, then build shafts to mine it and hoist it to the surface, harvesting our alluvial gold sands usually involves going down less than 100 feet!


Trial Mining

Last week on January 20th, 2011, Constitution Mining Corp. (CMIN.OB) announced that we had reached a significant milestone by entering into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") agreement with Swiss Mining S.A. to start a test-mining production operation on the Company's Gold Sand's project, located in North-East Peru. As stated in the news release at that time by our CEO Michael Stocker;

"We anticipate that this test mining operation, in partnership with Swiss Mining SA, will provide valuable information with which to help shape and hopefully confirm our hypotheses regarding the suitability and cost of alluvial gold production operations on our Gold Sands properties. We are very pleased to have reached this important milestone in the evolution or our company as we believe that this is a significant step forward from drilling to actual gold production."


Closing Words

You can judge a company's core values by listening to what they say, but even more importantly by watching what they do. What a company (or an individual) does is the outward expression and demonstration of their belief system and its core values.

Constitution Mining Corp's core values revolve around three salient considerations:
Economic � To foster and maintain corporate profitability and growth in order to generate maximum value for you, the shareholder.
Social � To work in an equitable, transparent, and socially responsible manner with local communities, suppliers and employees.
Environmental � To act as stewards of the local/regional eco systems, behaving in an environmentally responsible way, leaving a minimal "footprint" as a result of our operations.

As stated at the beginning of this letter, your Chairman was present "at the creation" of Constitution Mining Corp. He was unavoidably absent recently, dealing successfully with a serious illness that, without his steel-willed determination to survive, an understanding of gratitude, and some help and grace from above, could easily have proven fatal.

He would not have returned once again to become part of the management team, if there had doubts as to the values/goals which this Company holds, and its willingness, insofar as humanly possible, to fulfill those commitments � to shareholders �to the community � to the environment.

How your Chairman feels about Constitution Mining can be summed up in a single, brief sentence: "I believe in the People, the Project, the Time and the Place."

Your management team is convinced, as are many of the foremost experts in the natural resource sector that we are just now heading into the intermediate stages of what is destined to become the greatest bull market in modern history for commodities in general, and for gold and silver in particular. The following quotes from two giants of the precious metals arena give you an idea of where they stand on the issue.

Gold was trading well under $1,000 per ounce, when Pierre Lassonde, Co-Founder of Franco-Nevada Mining Corp/Pres. Newmont Mining was asked what he thought about gold prices going forward. He remarked:

"I believe that gold will have 3 zeros after the first number � I just don't know what the first number will be..."

When John Embry, Chief Investment Strategist at Sprott Asset Management was asked a similar question, he stated without equivocation,

"I believe that we are many years and several thousands of dollars in price away from the end of this powerful bull market."


"Core" numbers and facts for the Gold Sands Project

  • - Constitution Mining controls 461 square kilometres of Gold Sands in north-eastern Peru.
  • - Exploration work undertaken between 2009 and 2010, confirms an immense amount of potential for the project.
  • - Between 2009 �2010, the company executed two drill programs with a total of 126 drill holes to confirm Gold values.
  • - Together with IHC Merwede, the world's biggest dredge construction company, a Master Plan has been established to start production in 2011.
  • - Our costs of production are estimated to be approximately 2-3 USD/m3 with a Gold value of 6 USD/m3 in the drilled out area. (Calculated with Gold at 1200 USD/ounce)
  • - This difference between the cost of production per m3 and the Gold value per m3 is what gives us confidence that we are looking at a highly profitable project.

And by the Way...

Our 14th annual Wealth Protection Conference is coming up in Phoenix on April 22-23, 2011. This will be an opportunity for attendees to listen to and interact with some of the most notable speakers in our industry. They will enlarge your Big Picture about Honest Money and where we may be headed as individuals and as a nation. And you'll be able to learn even more about our company by speaking with your Chairman and other members of the Constitution Mining team.

In closing please consider this old Chinese saying which goes, "To know and not do is the same as not knowing." So, now that you know. . .

We trust that you have found the facts, figures and information about mining in general, and about Constitution Mining Corp in particular, to be of value. As your Chairman says when he speaks to people on his long-running Phoenix area resource sector talk show Hard Money Watch with Pat Gorman ;

"Always seek to gain as much information as possible before you make any kind of investment decision" � telling his listeners that it's always about "Education Before Acquisition".

Perhaps you are reading about us for the first time. If so, keep in mind that if you personally would like more information about Constitution Mining or to get involved with our company, write to us at info@constitutionming.com or just pick up the phone and call 888-401-8322, extension 101, and ask for Adam Ross.


Disclaimer

This Chairman's Letter release contains forward-looking statements that are based on beliefs of Constitution Mining Corp. management and reflect Constitution Mining Corp's current expectations as contemplated under section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. When we use in this release, the words "estimate," "project," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "plan," "predict," "may," "should," "will," "can," the negative of these words, or such other variations thereon, or comparable terminology, are all intended to identify forward looking statements. Such statements reflect the current views of Constitution Mining Corp. with respect to future events based on currently available information and are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to, risks and uncertainties pertaining to development of mining properties, changes in economic conditions and other risks, uncertainties and factors, which may cause the actual results, performance , or achievement expressed or implied by such forward looking statements to differ materially from the forward looking statements. The information contained in this release is historical in nature, has not been updated, and is current only to the date shown in this release. This information may no longer be accurate and therefore you should not rely on the information contained in this release. To the extent permitted by law, Constitution Mining Corp. and its employees, agents and consultants exclude all liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of, or reliance on, any such information, whether or not caused by any negligent act or omission.



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Goldsands Development est une société d’exploration minière d'or basée aux Etats-Unis D'Amerique.

Goldsands Development détient divers projets d'exploration en Argentine.

Son principal projet en développement est PERUVIAN GOLD SANDS au Perou et ses principaux projets en exploration sont ATENA et CERRO AMARILLO en Argentine.

Goldsands Development est cotée aux Etats-Unis D'Amerique. Sa capitalisation boursière aujourd'hui est 16,8 millions US$ (11,8 millions €).

La valeur de son action a atteint son plus haut niveau récent le 11 septembre 2009 à 1,92 US$, et son plus bas niveau récent le 03 décembre 2010 à 0,10 US$.

Goldsands Development possède 88 158 120 actions en circulation.

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2007 Annual report
Nominations de GoldSands Development Company
02/10/2009Appoints Team of Leading Gold Experts
20/08/2008Appoints Chief Financial Officer
07/08/2008Appoints New Director
Projets de GoldSands Development Company
11/03/2011Gold Test Production Equipment Arrives on GoldSands Property
23/07/2010(Peruvian Gold Sands) Makes Significant Gold Discovery in the Gold Sands of Peru
15/06/2010(Peruvian Gold Sands)Sees Encouraging Phase II Drill Indications
12/05/2010(Peruvian Gold Sands)to Expand Peru Drill Program
26/10/2009(Peruvian Gold Sands)Begins Production Testing on Gold Sands
15/08/2009(Peruvian Gold Sands)Drilling Begins at the Gold Sands in Peru
15/07/2009(Peruvian Gold Sands)Finalizes Drill Plan, Readies to Commence Drilling...
03/06/2009(Peruvian Gold Sands)CMIN Retains Scott Wilson Roscoe Postle Associates for Techn...
19/05/2009(Peruvian Gold Sands)receives Preliminary Master Plan (Scoping Study) for Peruvia...
18/02/2009(Peruvian Gold Sands)Company Contracts IHC Merwede Group to Assist with Developin...
01/10/2008Signs Option To Acquire Large Land Position
Communiqués de Presse de GoldSands Development Company
01/04/2011Changes Name to GoldSands Development Company
29/03/2011Updates GoldSands Test Production Site Work
08/03/2011THE CHAIRMAN'S LETTER
10/09/2009Hires R.F. Lafferty of New York / Proposed Reincorporation i...
05/03/2009Contracts WorleyParsons
25/02/2009Company Contracts AMEC Earth & Environmental
22/01/2009Must see video on Gold Sands District of Peru...
17/11/2008Gold Sands Project Update
11/11/2008Completes Initial Gold Sands Purchase...
17/09/2008Announces Committee Members
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