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|F  O  R  M   3|                                       Washington, D.C. 20549                           |       OMB APPROVAL       |
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                                      INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES           |OMB Number       3235-0104|
                                                                                                        |Expires: January 31, 2005 |
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                              Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchanged Act of 1934,  ----------------------------
                                Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
                                         Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act 1940

(Print or Type Responses)
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|1.Name and Address of         | 2. Date of Event            | 4. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol                         |
|  Reporting Person*           |    Requiring Statement      |                                                                     |
|                              |    (Month/Day/Year)         |    Tintic Gold Mining Company (TTGM)                                |
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| Burningham, Leonard W.       |                             |                                                                     |
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| (Last)     (First)  (Middle) |                             |                                                                     |
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|                              |     4/22/03*                |                                                                     |
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| 455 E. 500 S., #205          |                             |                                                                     |
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|          (Street)            | 3.IRS Identification Number | 5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to | 6. If Amendment, Date of|
|                              |   of Reporting Person, if an|    Issuer                                 |    Original             |
|                              |   entity (voluntary)        |    (Check all applicable)                 |    (Month/Day/Year)     |
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|                              |                             |     Director               X  10% Owner   |                         |
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| Salt Lake City, UT 84111     |                             |                                           |                         |
|------------------------------|                             |     Officer (give title       Other       |-------------------------|
| (City)   (State)    (Zip)    |                             | --- below)                --- (specify    | 7. Individual or Joint/ |
|                              |                             |                                below)     |    Group Filing (Check  |
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|                              |                             |                                           |  X  Form filed by One   |
|                              |                             | ----------------------------------------- | --- Reporting Person    |
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|                              |                             |                                           | --- than One Person     |
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|                                      TABLE I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned                                      |
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| 1.Title of Security          | 2. Amount of Securities Beneficially | 3. Ownership Form: Direct (D)    |4. Nature of Indirect    |
|   (Instr. 4)                 |    Owned                             |    or Indirect (I)               |   Beneficial Ownership  |
|                              |    (Instr. 4)                        |    (Instr. 5)                    |   (Instr. 5)            |
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| Common stock                 |  170,000                             |     D*                           |                         |
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly of indirectly.
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 5(b)(v).
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FORM 3 (continued)

          TABLE II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible security)
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|1.Title of|2. Date Exer-       |3. Title and Amount of Securities  |4. Conversion  |5. Ownership Form   |6. Nature of Indirect    |
|Derivative|   cisable and      |   Underlying Derivative           |   or Exercise |   of Derivative    |   Beneficial Ownership  |
|Security  |   Expiration       |   Security (Instr. 4)             |   Price of    |   Securities:      |   (Instr. 5)            |
|(Instr.4) |   Date             |                                   |   Derivative  |   Direct (D) or    |                         |
|          |   (Month/Day/Year) |                                   |   Security    |   Indirect (I)     |                         |
|          |--------------------------------------------------------|               |   (Instr. 5)       |                         |
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|          | Date     | Expira- |                    | Amount or    |               |                    |                         |
|          | Exer-    | tion    |                    | Number of    |               |                    |                         |
|          | cisable  | Date    |       Title        | Shares       |               |                    |                         |
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Explanation of Responses:

*Authorized to be issued on April 22, 2003, by the Board of Directors pursuant to Rule 16b-3(d)(1) of the Securities and Exchange
Commission.







             /s/ Leonard W. Burningham                                                    4/22/03
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           **Signature of Reporting Person                                                  Date




** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations.
     See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).

   Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space is insufficient,
         See Instruction 6 for procedure.













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