2016-07-06_REVISION - M1980244 (9)

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In early June, 2016, I received a letter from you indicating that CC&V Mining was requesting that acreage in the Cripple Creek mining area be released to them for use at the Cresson Project. No further explanation was provided, and again the area to be affected was referred to as Township 15 South, Range 69 West, 6 h Principal Meridian in Teller County. This time you added that the area in question was located at or near Section 30. A glance at my maps showed me that Section 30 of the Township and Range in question was located north of Victor and west of Goldfield,well away from my property. Then, on July 2, I received another letter from you dated June 27 regarding the acreage release. The information again indicated the area affected would be at or near Section 30, Township 15 South, Range 69 West, 6 h Principal Meridian. Included in your letter was information on the permit application from CC&V Mining. This time,Section 20 in the designated township and range was specified as being affected in some of the letter content. This was the first reference to something other than Section 30 and increased haul road activity. The area in question was described as 2 miles southeast of Cripple Creek and 1.25 miles north of Victor. The process described was open pit mining, ore haulage to the processing area,the processing to be in valley leach or mill processing. This is the first notice I received that the amendment entailed a request other than increased haul road traffic—indeed the amendment requested the building of heap leach and processing facilities. Also included in your most recent letter was a request from Newmont Mining asking for the release of 35.2 acres in the Goldfield area and 7.7 acres in the Squaw Gulch/Gold Run area. Newmont claimed an inability to secure legal right to enter certain lands in the area. I point out I was never contacted by CC&V Mining or Newmont Mining regarding my specific property in Goldfield. I notice that my name and address are included in the information about land owners to be affected by the Newmont request. I repeat that no one from CC&V or Newmont ever contacted me regarding the use of my property for their new heap leach operation and processing facility, so their claim that they were unable to secure legal right to enter my property does not ring true—in fact it is mendacity—a prevarication. Upon inspecting the attached very small scale map, I determined that their request to build the heap leach and processing facility literally abuts my property—if it does not indeed usurp it. The previous correspondence from either CC&V/Newmont or you has been misleading. The amendment is actually going to affect land located in Sections 20, 21, 28, and 29—not the aforementioned Section 30. Newmont and CC&V have never contacted me to discuss acquiring the property from me so that they could use it. My property includes approximately 2 acres above the Goldfield Arena. It includes an historic log cabin surrounded by a grove of aspen trees. I lived in that cabin in the 1970s. I installed electricity in the summer of 2015. Black Hills Energy has designated the property as 101 West 9t' Street in Goldfield. I have had the property for more than 41 years, and had planned to follow the procedure to obtain permission to install City of Victor water and construct a septic system to accommodate a habitable structure on the property. In addition,there is a grove of old and large pine trees close to the CC&V/Newmont request boundary. Will they destroy these old trees? The property commands an excellent view of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains—one of the reasons why I chose this lad when I acquired it in 1975.