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r <br /> 01.6 <br /> MINING AND SAFETY RECLAMATION ��DIVISION OF REccr h 10,�O <br /> 1313 SHERMAN STREET, ROOM 215 N �5 J?Pjl§ r <br /> DENVER, COLORADO, 80203 MAR 15 016 <br /> DIVISION OFF <br /> MINING AND-, �11 I IC <br /> Re: NOTICE OF FILING AN APPLICATION AGREEMENT FOR COLORADO"%4*- <br /> RECLAMATION PERMIT M-1980-244,CRESSON PROJECT,AMENDED:AMENDMENT <br /> To whom it may concern; <br /> My name is Dennis Lanning,a managing general partner of Dewey-Dwight&Associates LLP. <br /> We, with Gold Mine Tours, Inc., own and operated the Mollie Kathleen gold mine tour in <br /> Cripple Creek, CO. As described below, our fee lands abut the expanded permit area here. <br /> We would like to generally describe both our interests,and, our concerns. <br /> Having been properly informed of pending operations of Newmont's Amendment 11,which <br /> advances the permit boundary to the outer limits of neighboring DEWEY-DWIGHT & <br /> ASSOCIATES L.L.P. owned Cripple Creek Mining District property (legally defined as Mollie <br /> Kathleen Lode MS 8661, Queen Bess Lode MS 7530, El Paso Lode MS 7377 and Badger Lode <br /> MS 14409),we tender our comments.As adjacent owners,we feel duty bound by respect for <br /> public wellbeing and mine safety for our employees and that of the visiting public at large. <br /> We hope that you accept our comments in that light. <br /> It is not the intent of Dewey-Dwight&Associates, L.L.P., Gold Mine Tours, Inc. nor the Mollie <br /> Kathleen Mine, to discourage or disrupt Newmont Mining Company's planned mining <br /> expansion efforts,but, rather as an act of performing our obligation to maintain mine safety <br /> for our own employees and the public visitors at large. We will focus our comments to <br /> inform the Division of Reclamation Mining Safety of existing issues regarding potential <br /> disruption to Mollie Kathleen mine safety and structural stability, which could be the <br /> unintended consequence of operations on neighboring or nearby grounds. These concerns <br /> focus on: ventilation, structural stability, control of airflow,and, above all, public safety. <br /> The Division should be informed that there does exist an agreement negotiated with Anglo <br /> American during its tenure at the Cresson operation governing certain access and <br /> ventilation practices in interlinked underground working and mine openings. Newmont is <br /> the successor to Anglo in that agreement. Currently, it is unknown how the expansion of <br /> Newmont's operations might impact that agreement, and, the underground tour operations <br /> of the Mollie Kathleen. We have informed Newmont of our concerns in this regard, in <br /> substantial detail, and have conducted, and continue to offer, the opportunity for <br /> underground tours of the interlinked workings to discuss these concerns in detail. <br /> The Dewey-Dwight owned Cripple Creek Mining District property is home to the long <br /> standing MOLLIE KATHLEEN GOLD MINE TOUR ATTRACTION that has conducted publicly <br /> offered mining tour of the Mollie Kathleen and Queen Bess 1'000 ft. level subsurface mine <br /> workings. Yearly visitors worldwide tour the Mollie Kathleen Mine Tour Attraction during <br /> daily offered tours scheduled throughout the months of April through October and have <br /> been doing so since the late 1930's. Public guest access the 1,000 ft. 101h level mine working <br /> by the use of a typical district two-compartment mineshaft engaging traditional use of cable <br />