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Email Address * <br />Enter a valid email address in this field to receive a confirmation e-mail. <br />ntunnell@bluewin.ch <br />Your Phone Number* <br />Used only to follow up. <br />9704023970 <br />Extension <br />Alternate Phone Number <br />Used only to follow up. <br />Alternate Phone Extension <br />Connection to Operation <br />Select all that apply <br />Land Owner of affected land <br />Structure Owner within 200' of affected land <br />Mineral Owner <br />Nearby Resident <br />Adjacent Land Owner <br />✓ Concerned Citizen <br />Government Agency <br />Other <br />DESCRIPTION OF COMMENT OR OBJECTION <br />You are providing a comment or objection to the public record of a permitting action currently under review by the Division of <br />Reclamation, Mining and Safety. This form is not intended for reporting of possible violations or illegal activity. Please be as specific <br />as possible. <br />Comment/Objection Narrative * <br />As a citizen of Leadville, I strongly object to the CJK Milling group obtaining a state permit to "clean up" historic <br />mine waste. The mine tailings are stable now and disturbing them is inevitably going to put noxious particles in <br />the air that will combine with dust and diesel from the trucks that would be used to transport mine waste. Air <br />pollution and the amount of water the cyanide leaching process will require are major concerns, but the drastic <br />change in the landscape of our east Leadville historic district would not be beneficial. The remaining shaft and <br />cribbage wooden structures testifying of all the past mining activity, some buildings and trusses still standing <br />and very often photographed, would be destroyed in the process of getting at the tailings. <br />So we are talking about eliminating Leadville's past... That definitely will affect tourism negatively, not enhance it <br />as CJK argues! So our economy is at stake. They claim that "the land is restored to pre -mining conditions". <br />Apparently they don't know we live at more than 10,000 feet and that regrowing of natural vegetation on barren <br />rocky ground will take decades or just leave big scars worse than the tailings and remaining shafts. I am <br />skeptical about CJK bringing top soil, planting trees and sowing seeds after they will have taken their profit out <br />of the project. And who will enforce that? <br />However the use of Cyanide and the unexpected accidents that happened in Montana, Colorado and other <br />parts of the world, the possible contamination of our water sources, are on the top of my concerns. <br />Please let us enjoy Leadville the way it is, in a healthy environment and in peace. N.T. <br />Permit Number* <br />Enter valid letter and then numbers, for example M1977999, M1999777UG or C1981201. <br />M1990057 <br />Permitting Action Type <br />Select revision type or leave blank if comment pertains to a new permit application or NOI <br />Permit Type <br />