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COLORADO MILLING COMPANY, LLC P.O. Box 1523 Longmont, Colorado 8050 Amy Fortunato/James K. McCumber December 29, 2018 4891 Lick Skillet Road Jamestown, Colorado 80455 Amy Fortunato/James K. McCumber: The Colorado Milling Company, LLC is herewith responding to your letter regarding the Application for an Amendment to the Gold Hill Mill Limited Impact 110 (2) Permit No. M-1994- 117, filed to add the previously permitted Left Hand Creek Pump Station, Gold Hill Mill Pipeline, and the Times Mine adit portal to the affected land boundary of the Gold Hill Mill Permit. In your letter, the two of you expressed concerns about the Colorado Milling Company's Application for an Amendment to the Gold Hill Mill Permit. You stated that it had been brought to your attention at the Special Gold Hill Town Meeting"that the Colorado Milling Company has, in the past, been in violation of the MLRB Rules and Regulations in regard to trucking off-site tailings to the mine to be milled." You considered this "specific example of blatant disregard of the rules" to indicate "a lack of business, legal, and safety responsibility." Since neither of you were living in the area when the Gold Hill Mill was permitted by the Mined Land Reclamation Board on September 26, 1985, the following outline of the operational history of our milling facility should be of some interest to both of you. The Gold Hill Mill has only been owned and actually operated by four companies since it was constructed in 1986 and 1987. The first was the original permitted operator,the Gold Hill Ventures Limited Partnership; the second was a company called Colina Oro Molina; the third company was ITEC Environmental; and the fourth was Mount Royale Ventures. Of the four companies that owned and operated the milling facility, only one, Colina Oro Molina, was responsible for all of the operational violations at the Gold Hill Mill. Colina Oro Molina was owned and controlled by Gwen Fraser of Seattle, Washington. She placed her brother, J. Wayne Tatman, in control of the Gold Hill Mill on October 23, 1990. The fact that Colina Oro Molina's on-site Mill Superintendent was totally incapable of managing the Gold Hill Mill quickly became apparent to anyone in contact with J. Wayne Tatman. He had convinced his naive and very gullible sister that he could make her tens of millions of dollars by processing just a few thousand tons of platinum, palladium and gold ore from a secret placer deposit he owned if he only had access to the Gold Hill Mill's processing equipment. When this ridiculous geologic impossibility came to naught, the owners of the Cash Mine refused to ship any ore to the mill as long as J. Wayne Tatman was in control of the facility. Shortly after this,Colina Oro Molina began importing ore from all over the place in clear violation of the original State and County Permits. 1