Platinum of Freetown Volume 1

Look at me hope you see I have so much left in me Come to me invest in me We would live in prosperity I'm the platinum of Freetown I'm the platinum of Freetown My name is platinum Group of minerals some call me PGM I'm a family man with a friendly plan to produce good money meh I'm rich on the outside I call alluvial Richer on the inside I call rock source I'm all around Freetown Peninsula My worth will soon be found top notch Back then they had little knowledge of me So they used common tools to find me Now that we have better technology It would be much easier to find me Look at me hope you see I have so much left in me Come to me invest in me We would live in prosperity I'm the platinum of Freetown I'm the platinum of Freetown I love to tell stories about myself My area is the Freetown Layered Complex The roads are rugged, the corners are complex The rocks are sandwich like biscuit rhyming correct My area was formed a long time ago About 193 million years old 60 kilometer long, 14 kilometer, 7 kilometer thick From York to Waterloo My area has a very complex structure Like folds, intrusions, faults and fractures The recent geohazard the landslide at reagent Show the need to understand these features I live in a nice house in the getto Call it the anorthositic gabbro My home is unknown until its shown By the ones who come to get mission done Look at me hope you see I have so much left in me Come to me invest in me We would live in prosperity I'm the platinum of Freetown I'm the platinum of Freetown I was the first minerals of importance Mined in Sierra Leone cause I'm of substance Come to me investor Sincerely invest more My siblings worth billion and they are strong Call them Palladium, Omiridium and Iron No wonder they call here the lion mountain Cause the mountain was built on champion Listen this brief history of mine in 1949 They found ounces of me around Guma In the rocky stream of boulders With my heavy weight cousin ilmenite, chromite and Magnetite Along the Tokeh. York and Big Water area Alako, congo dam and Benguma area I showed myself around Babadorie too But after World War 2 they lost interest in me But due to global declining prices They abandoned us like broken devices Look at me hope you see I have so much left in me Come to me invest in me We would live in prosperity I'm the platinum of Freetown I'm the platinum of Freetow They taught the got the best of me in 1935 When they mined 750 ounces from an open cast mine From nighteen twenty nine to fourty nine They used me like spouses Everything went fine until they mined Five two five five (5,255) Ounces You see the reality of everything I will tell you my own truth They just scrap my surface as people say Dem only taste me pepper soup Look at me hope you see I have so much left in me Come to me invest in me We would live in prosperity I'm the platinum of Freetown I'm the platinum of Freetown Thanks to Pollette et al, bowles et al Cabri et all, barber et al And the AGE, Dada Jew Et al For sure I am Vital Rest in Peace Mr J.W.A Jackson and Miss Evelyn Blackie for your inspiration. Till we meet again