Brian Gavin President & CEO

On behalf of Franconia Minerals Corporation (TSX: FRA), our Board of Directors and our operational teams, I am pleased to unveil our updated website, which I hope you will find more useful and user friendly for obtaining current information about the Company.

It has been less than three years since, early in 2005, Franconia Minerals Corporation was first listed as a public company, trading through the TSX - Venture Exchange. Today, Franconia is proud to have earned a position on the main Toronto Stock Exchange board, a move that marks a number of the significant milestones that have been achieved in this short span of time.

Most notable has been our successful and continuing advancement of the Birch Lake copper-nickel-platinum-palladium exploration project in the highly prospective Duluth complex in northeastern Minnesota. Here, the Company has NI 43-101-compliant underground inferred resources of 100 million tonnes at Birch Lake, 83 million tonnes at Maturi and 124 million tonnes at Spruce Road for a total Birch Lake Project resource of 307 million tonnes. A key result of this and other work has been the growing recognition by investors particularly in the United States and Canada of the exceptional value our Company offers through its resource projects, its people and its vision.

Still, Franconia's growth has barely begun and, with the continued commitment of our management, technical and support teams, our future prospects remain not only bright, but also solid and real. Of course, none of this would be possible without the backing of our loyal investors, whose company this is. We look forward to fulfilling our vision and to delivering the results that they have come to expect of Franconia Minerals.

Sincerely,

Brian Gavin

President, CEO and Director
Franconia Minerals Corporation