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MINED LAND RECLAMATION BOARD <br />Presentation Form <br /> V <br />Site: Golden Wonder Mine <br />Permit Type: 1 lOd (DMO) <br />Acres: 3.5 acres <br />County: Hinsdale <br />Specialist: Bob Oswald <br />~o~~~~ <br />~~~ <br />~~ <br />PermitNo.: M-19 8 091 <br />Operator: LKA International, Inc. <br />Bond Amount: $44,000 <br />Bond Sufficient?: Yes <br />Formal Public Hearing: <br />Consideration of operator's request for a Declaratory Order exempting anoff-site stockpiling and transporting <br />activity from the requirements of a reclamation permit. <br />Background: <br />Operator has been found intermittently placing numerous one-ton ore sacks at a loading area that is not on the <br />permitted area. Ore is characterized as having "serious acid-generating potential" and the sacks are woven <br />polyethylene, porous and somewhat open on top. Leaching may occur as a result of ore contact with precipitation. <br />The gravel parking lot used for such ore placement contains no underliner, and is upslope and in close proximity to <br />an open water body (private fish pond). Hydrologic effect is unknown. <br />Ore placed here is more conveniently loaded on large trucks for out-of--state hauling to processor. When told by <br />DMG that ore must be removed, the operator removed it. However, he insists such activity does not fall within <br />those which require a permit. DMG believes such activity must be in a permit area, as the attached letter explains. <br />Operator has proposed storing various amounts of sacks and short durations of storage time there, but this is an <br />activity which cannot be clearly approved by staff. <br />The operator has requested consideration by the Board that this activity be exempt from the need for a reclamation <br />permit. <br />(packet attached) <br />