The Vision

OPHIR REVIVAL IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT, WHEN FUNDED, THEN FUNDS BOTH RHODODENDRON CHARITABLE TRUST AND KHARIS TRUST.

Ophir Mining Company is the continuing funding mechanism for OPHIR REVIVAL.

Located in the wilds of southwest Alaska, the valley that surrounded the former City of Ophir lies in wait of the fulfillment of our vision, a vision that it will become a part of current Alaska once again.

We, the principals, have had care, custody and control of the historical City of Ophir since 1971. During all these years, Rodger, our first principal, held the dream of restoring this mining center town to its former importance. When populated, this central community was comprised of 122 souls, all working diligently to separate gold from the earth. Between the discovery of the yellow metal and current time, over 12.118 million ounces of the substance have been removed from the Innoko range.

Our decision to bring the mine to full production has developed over the last nine years, with specific movement in that direction becoming more and more urgent in the last four years. We have finally found the right methods to begin to extract the physical gold from the tailing piles and black sands that comprise our various claims.

These claims consist of 44 total mining claims, four of which are 40-acre claims, the remaining are all 20-acre mining claims. According to a study by the Alaskan Geological and Geophysical Division done in 1976, each 20-acre claim was worth 4 Millions USD (1976 gold prices were at $45 per ounce). Using the study figures as hard facts and extrapolating forward to current value, each of our 20-acre claims now bears a value of 120 Millions USD in potential cash. It is to increase the holdings that we are seeking money to purchase Spruce Creek and Anvil Creek Mines. These two holdings will enlarge our total claims by 104, and we will hold free and clear patent land titles to a bit over 100 acres of land upon which we can place permanent buildings to support the work force needed to keep the mine in production.

The Challenge

With the vision still a little vague, we called upon Mike's abilities to research. This second principal looked into the methods, machinery and systems that might be used to reclaim the metals in our materials. Finally, late in 2006, our processing picture became clear.

Our hardest challenge was to obtain a method of chemically leaching the whole family of noble metals (gold, silver, platinum and palladium) from the black sand. This proved especially difficult as the three of us have very stringent standards in dealing with the environment, and almost all leaching technologies use volatile and dangerous chemicals, i.e. cyanide.

Mike was finally able to locate a leach method that was non-invasive, non-toxic to animals and humans, was safe to ship and for humans to handle, thus allowing us to feel comfortable in using the new leaching materials rather than the bromide, iodine, mercury or cyanide that is commonly used for leaching in an open pit.

Mike's new-found materials are also used in a closed system that protects the environment from accidental encroachment as it reverts to an inert material when not in contact with metal. Additionally, he found a new placer system that allows us to remove physical gold down to four microns before the leaching process is applied to the tailings.

The Dream

We decided that whatever the cost, we would move the Ophir Mining Company into full production this year. It makes financial sense to do so for the following reasons:

1. We want to enable some of the humanitarian projects for the community to come to fruition
2. Gold is currently selling for $600+ per ounce
3. We have the knowledge and equipment needed on line for delivery.
4. We are not getting any younger as a group

The money we can take from the ground will enable us to do projects we have agreed are vital to our personal well-being. The vision and compilation of these goals is the direct responsibility of our third principal, Pearl, whose words and thoughts you are currently reading.

The Beginning

As 2007 proceeds to unfold, we find that the work Roger did in 2006 on our infrastructure with the idea of improving our on-ground transportation issues, gains in importance. Valued by the State of Alaska at a bit over 11.5 Millions USD, Rodger built a total of nine miles of community roads, gravel surface, and brought back to registration level an abandoned airstrip.

Using machinery that had been owned by the state but abandoned because it was broken down on claims we control, and with the help of our mine mechanic, Rick, Rodger lengthened the airstrip to 3,000 feet and widened the same to 100 feet. Mike secured a re-listing of this airstrip as a remote emergency landing field in October of 2006. The airstrip had been removed from any FAA listing in 1984. In order to meet the growing needs of the mine, this airstrip will need to be upgraded to a rural community strip. In order to make that a reality, we will have to deal with the United States Geological Survey. We estimate that we can achieve the new registration in about three years.

What we have found most interesting is that both Anvil Creek and Gaines Creek mines are now advocating the use of the "Ophir Airstrip" for their visitors. We find this fact important since they usually, and historically, have used the community airstrip in Talkotna, prior to the time our strip was registered.

The Structure

FUNDING OPHIR REVIVAL ALLOWS US TO FUND RHODODENDRON CHARITABLE TRUST . Ophir Revival funds Rhododendron Charitable Trust (Rhody), our 501(C)(3) and 509 Operating Foundation. Rhody, in turn, funds various projects aimed at improving the lives of people across the globe.

Rhody has been an entity for almost nine years. She has funded, out of $25,000 in gifts, a total of $22,500 to three programs: Wolf Spirit Society, a Native American Healing Arts Center; Well-Child Nutritional Center in the Illinois River Valley, a nutritional supplement program for the impoverished youth of that area of Oregon state; Blue House Publishing, the provider of written nutritional booklets for the public at little or no charge.

By design, Rhody is limited to retaining only 10 per cent of monies donated for administration. Ophir Revival is allowed to keep 15 per cent for its own administration expenses. These facts meet the IRS requirements for non-profit organizations.

Ophir Revival is directly responsible for the restoration of the City of Ophir while working within the historical preservation guidelines of the State of Alaska. In addition, Ophir Revival, which has direct and close ties with several smaller segments of the indigenous people of the area, has chosen to create a possible income stream for those tribes using their two most abundance resources: water and coal. The plan is to create a coal-to-diesel fuel conversion plant that will meet the needs of the local community and possible shipment to other users, thus creating a continuing stream of income for the tribal groups involved.

Other Projects

Rhody funds the major project called Blue Water International. The project involves U.S. technology and water resources machinery and small private schools in Tanzania and other mid-African nations. U.S. firms send fully depreciated equipment and trainers to these schools. The newly trained workers use the equipment to provide potable water wells to the villages of their areas.

Other Rhody projects include a well-child nutrition clinic in the Illinois River Valley of southern Oregon, a food and clothing bank program that is currently serving over 650 families per year and needs to expand; an instructional and support program for children who are newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes that is global in impact; a youth training program for troubled kids in the Pacific Northwest that provides real vocational options for the participants; purchasing a building for homeless and battered women and families in Brookings, Oregon; and, finally, a floating oil recycling ship to service the cruise and commercial ships working the tropical seas which is the development of an engineer from Costa Rica.

The Future

Continuing investment of the proceeds from the mine, after expenses, will fund both the Ophir Revival Trust and Rhododendron Charitable Trust. The reality is that our principals all believe in "paying it forward." Hence the first, and perhaps the greatest, goal for Rhody is to provide first money grants to organizations. We all recognize that the first grant is the hardest to get, and once you have been awarded a grant, it is easier to obtain another. After all, "Early Money is Like Yeast (EMILY)" … it always helps to raise the dough.

We have the vision and we see the future, and we are determined that our history and community shall not parish from off the earth. Once we assume care, custody and control of the total claims we desire, we will have assets of nearly 22 Billions USD in the ground. We have our sights on making use of this most precious commodity to do our work with our fellow men/women/children, and this year is when it begins … stay tuned!!

MARCH 14, 2007… AND SO IT BEGINS!

We are delighted to announce that we have a new partner in our work to develop our projects… Charles Merritt, CEO of WELLOG, INC. has made a bold and most welcomed decision to perform a new geophysical survey for us… As soon as it is possible to work, Chuck will arrive at the Ophir site and begin the arduous task of walking the claims to seek out the best possible places for us to begin our work

This little walk, some 217 miles in length, will entail the use of sophisticated machinery, computer technologies, and satellite up-linking. And this must be done without adequate power, a serious handicap for us. So, because Chuck needs power to perform this much needed service, he is gifting the Ophir Revival group a 50 watt, 48 volt solar panel as a power source. Whoopee! This is massive to us as it represents our first grant in aid… Please take the time to visit Chuck's website here…Wellog Mining

PHASE 1: Part A: Secure Adequate Housing and Lands…

Purchase of the Spruce Creek and Anvil Creek properties will provide adequate housing for the proposed work crews during the mining season (late May through mid-October). We will also procure the lands that are appertaining to the City of Ophir. As we will have labor and possible visitors at the site during the first two years, it is also vital that we have contract medical evacuation methods lined up. We will also have to set funds aside to remodel and modernize the houses so that staff has adequate means to stay on the grounds during the entire season.

Part B: Begin Mining Production…

Locate equipment on the various mining claims, develop the leaching system and see it delivered, purchase the smelting system and have it delivered. Begin the establishment of a storage facility for the physical gold to be held on the grounds.

Part C: Begin Airstrip Improvement…

Expand the length and breadth of the runway to conform with the standard for a certified community runway. Erect an office complex, with sleeping, food service and safe location for small plane storage (perhaps as many as 6 bays) during emergency winter layovers.

This executive summary provides our funding request and information about Ophir Revival.

Based upon the foundation of Rhododendron Charitable Trust (Rhody) in 1997, in 2006 Ophir Revival was created in that name with sole intent of working within the confines of the Alaskan wilderness in which our main project is located. The goals of this organization are simply to provide better health, welfare and education to the citizens of the world by means of partnering with existing business entities so that the individual and the community are able to perform without the interference of governmental agencies.

We believe that the people of the earth can direct and assist themselves if given support and the ability to work constructively within their own cultural ideals. Toward that end, Ophir Revival has instituted a series of 5 major projects that represent our personal goals and ideals, which you will read about in this document.

We are a small group, comprised of only 5 individuals, but we have provided funds to projects that have impacted well over 500 lives in the last 3 years alone. We have worked in the arena of health for the Native American population, have provided health related materials for well over 200 families, are currently supporting the program of diabetes intervention that is being promulgated by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and have created the means by which miners can extract minerals from the earth without damage to the environment.

In all our projects you will see an attempt to partner with existing business entities so that the needs of our recipients are met with the full participation of the local community. In many cases, as with Project Blue Water, there is very little that we must provide except for the salaries of those professional geologists and well drillers who go to our remote locations to train the students of the schools with whom we partner. In the past, because we did not know or understand that we needed to form relationships with organizations like Africare, we were stymied due to our inability to "bribe" officials to allow our machinery and materials into the countries we were in the process of serving. We believe that such relationships will improve our abilities to work within our own goals and assist these other organizations in their service goals as well.

Ophir Revival invites The Calgary Work Center, First Geneva Capital and Navigators to fund the listed projects. Phase 1 - $36 Million.

An outgrowth of the study begun by two of our Trustees over 50 years ago into the best methods of precious metal extraction that is environmentally sound, Project Safe Earth provides developing nations (and fully developed nations, as well) a way of exploiting their natural resources with complete safety. Using a series of developments completed by partnering organizations, we have been able to precipitate a full range of precious metals without damaging the earth, the sky or the waters of the areas in which our programs have been tested.

Additionally, we have proven this methodology will, with very slight changes in application, facilitate cleanup of non-oil based toxic industrial sites in wherever they occur. This represents an enormous benefit for the intermediate nations of the world as they struggle with the off-fall of industrial development. We have proven that there is no need to remove effected materials to safe storage in other areas. Indeed, it is quite possible to leave even lead, arsenic and other such "heavy metals" where they have been left and simply to "lock" them into the earth so that no leaching of these materials into the environment occurs.

It is estimated that this project will enable the employment of over 3,000 individuals in Alaska alone. Since this is a technology that will work on the global level, there is virtually no way to estimate the total number of employment opportunities that will be created by the use of these methods across the globe.

Begun as the dream of 2 of our Trustees, Project "Sticky" provides support, education, training and social acceptance for newly diagnosed Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetic children and youth, their families and caregivers, far beyond medical professionals and nursing staff. Another partnership program, Project Sticky is presented through our working relationship with Boys and Girls Clubs of America, with adjunct support from various school districts, the Oregon Health Sciences University and the Mayo Clinic.

Additional provisions within this project include the creation of commercial meals (appropriate for all ages and stages of the disease) created by Nutri-Systems and offered at reduced costs by the project to seniors and family units that are near, at or below the poverty level. Also available to the various Boys and Girls Clubs are a series of snacks that are provided to the Club locations as part of their afternoon programs for kids.

This program will offer employment opportunities for at least 100 people within the state of Oregon in the next 6 months. With the increase of diabetes at epidemic levels, it is anticipated that the Boys and Girls Clubs of America will view this now local project as viable to take nationwide growing our employment projections exponentially.

An invitation issued to nominated individuals for participation in a "Mastermind" program held at the global headquarters of Ophir Revival in Ophir, Alaska, the Summer Summits are held from Mid-June through the end of August, annually.

The first such program is tentatively scheduled for June 2009. This is for those who think outside the box and offers 3 different classifications of work:

1. or those who specialize in the human condition on a global basis,
2. for those who work within the arenas of government and academia
3. for those who work with new and emerging technologies.

Transportation, housing, food and all materials created during the summit are provided to participants by Ophir Revival, but this opportunity is limited to no more than 10 individuals chosen from the nominated pool by the Board of Trustees as those who best represent each of the above fields of endeavor.

Established in 1997, Rhododendron Charitable Trust (Rhody) was designed as a "first money" granting foundation. Its response has always been to provide a first in monetary boost to fledgling not-for-profit groups and individuals. EMILY ("Early money is like yeast") makes programs in need of support more attractive to granting organizations. Certainly our experiences indicate that the ability of an organization to obtain its first grant makes additional funding much easier to attain.

Historically, Rhody has provided grants for small projects of $5-$25 Thousands. This infusion of cash would allow us to invest for a life long program that would allow us to provide more and perhaps larger grants to the new organizations that are begun each day. We would like to fund specific educational programs for adults, specific food production programs that operate globally, and a number of specific housing and health related organizations, but have not had the funds to do so. By carefully investing these funds, we should be able to create the needed funds for these special projects.

In 1997 we were asked to help a dear friend with a trade school that she had started while in the Peace Corps. Her school was in rural Tanzania and had a total of about 40 youngsters as residents and students. Her strongest desire was to provide these young people (at the time, these were all young men) with a trade that would secure their private futures, and at the same time benefit their communities.

Over time, we learned that the greatest need these rural communities faced was for potable water. And so we applied our partnering skills and located providers of well drilling equipment, pipe, casing for wells, transportation to a port on the East coast, trans-oceanic transportation to the East coast of Africa. We were able to secure geologists, well drillers, and other professional staff that agreed to show up at the schools we wanted to work with for 8-12 weeks at a time in return for salaries alone.

What we were unable to do at the time is bribe the country officials in order to get the materials in country to make the program work. This time, with these funds and our newer recognitions about using other groups and organizations with stronger histories in Africa, India, and the deserts of the northern hemisphere, we will be able to finish this project. We will be partnering with "PUR" to clean the surface water, with Africare, if we can, to help them with their goals of potable water and sanitary conditions…

We will be introducing composting toilets for the sanitary disposal of human wastes that will enable the population to enrich depleted soils in their areas with the byproducts of the toilets; the ability to move water from 300 feet to the surface with a wind generation system and a new technology of quasi-turbines which will make the project even more feasible.

Your generous support of our organization will enable us to create, and expand, our presence in the global community and enable us to seek and fund yet even more projects that will effect the health, well-being, and indeed, the very lives of people around the world.