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Comment 2 Little or No Chance Gives Rise to Potential — No comment necessary or desired Response: A comment is necessary as you have changed the meaning of my words and then attempted to misinterpret those meanings. With respect to the permit area, no acid generating rock, or potentially acid generating rock has been found on the property, thus with nothing found, nothing can be located on any map. Once again, this leads to the simple conclusion that no potentially generating acid rock is known to exist within the permit area. If you remember back to when you took your logic class back in school, you will recall that it is impossible to prove a negative. Since the possibility of finding acid generating rock sometime in the future on the permit area cannot be completely ruled out, we cannot state there is "no chance", and instead need to settle on the word "little", which may or may not be the exact appropriate word. However this is the nearest word in the English language we can find so are stuck with it. Your logic along this line of reasoning is faulty in that one cannot plan for something that has not yet been found to exist, and as a result, we have no known parameters in which to produce a design. If your psychic abilities can predict the future, let me know. As for me, I can only design for what is real. Comment 3 Maps will be updated in future — Illegible Font and - Be Aware Response: As discussed above since no acid generating rock, or potential acid generating rock, has been found to date, we cannot show where it located on any map. The next question to be answered is if some potential acid generating rock is found, where would it be found and at what volume. It is reasonable to assume that if found it would be found inside the mine. Next, the volume found might be less than one pound, or it might be tens of thousands of tons. If it is one pound, it could easily and safely be managed inside the mine by storing it in a coffee can or specimen box. On the other extreme, if the volume might be instead the tens of thousands of tons (very unlikely), it would require a large outside bermed area which would need to be much larger than the entire current permit area. In this case, the current permit would not be sufficient and a modification would need to be initiated. Thus, your order for me to produce a design results in the need for the generation of an assumption based on realistic probabilities. Using the available data, it is our professional opinion that if any potential acid generating rock might ever be found in the future, the volume will be near the small volume estimated above. Thus, using this assumption, and incorporating a reasonable factor of safety to this small volume of a couple of pounds, any potential acid generating material that might be found will stored inside the mine and kept isolated from outside precipitation. This will effectively separate any potential acid generation material that might be found from the outside environment. The issue you initiated with respect to the map has already been discussed above.