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• <br />• iii iiiiiiiiiiiu iii • • <br />CLIMAX MOLYBDENUM COMPAN'1/ <br />A UNIT OF AMA~~ INC. <br />HENDERSON MINE <br />Box 68 <br />~.. <br />Empire, Colorado 80438'3-:~.:'r_!u r_) <br />(303) 569-3221 <br />SEp 1 1993 <br />August 31, 1993 <br />Certified Mall No. P 397 830 222 <br />Mr. H. Bruce Humphries <br />Supervisor -Minerals Program <br />COLORADO MINED LAND RECLAMATION DIVISION <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />RE: Henderson Mlne Site, Preliminary Groundwater Monitoring Plan <br />Permit No. M-77-342 <br />Dear Mr. Humphries: <br />% % -dD~ <br />I am writing this letter to document the resuRs of our August 5, 1993 meeting <br />concerning the preliminary groundwater monitoring plan for the Henderson Mine site. <br />We appreciate the Division's review and input to our preliminary plan. It is the goal of <br />the Henderson Mine management team to strictly comply with the terms of 'the Act <br />and to minimize the environmental impacts of our operations. <br />At our August 5 meeting two geologic maps provided the basis for discussion <br />and the eventual development of our preliminary plan. The first map docurr!ented the <br />extensive mineralization of the area. The second map (attached) documented the <br />extensive occurrence of Precambrian bedrock surrounding and underlying the Mine <br />site. In addition, shallow soil cover and porous glacial deposits were shown in the <br />West Fork of Clear Creek drainage immediately downgradient from the site, with <br />Precambrian bedrock surfacing again less than one half mile downstream from the <br />Mine site. These downstream outcrops are coincident with a historic surface water <br />sampling site. Division personnel questioned whether upstream and downstream <br />surface water quality monitoring had shown contaminant loading across the site. Data <br />were presented that showed the random nature of loading or dilution of in stream <br />contaminants as the stream crosses our site, indicating that the contaminant source is <br />