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180 bane 200 Bass Lake Angola, hadiana -16703 260--665-7060 260-668-0362 RECEIVED DEC 16 2~C5 goldbasin~a~otmail. com December 10, 2005 r- , ~ , Board Of County Commissioners Chaffee County House Salida, Colorado 81201 Division ~f fNwcerals and Geology ~~-M © I wr~'L- DM ~ ~«. Dear Board of County Commissioners: We feel at this time we should explain to you our problems with the Department of Mineral and Geology. When we applied for a mining permit back in 1992 they sent up a inexperienced specialists who at that time told us we could only get a 3 acre permit and the charge was $875.00 fora 110- permit. We were allowed to wash 70,000 tons ofgravel a year but couldn't get out of the 3 acres. Never did they state to us that you subtract the pre permit pre-law roads. So all this time we have been working in 1.3 acres. Not until we discovered last year that other miners applied before and after we did, received a 9.9 acre permit for the same amount $875.00. We had applied for a permit to mine for gold previously in 1987, we applied for a prospect permit and was told we needed a letter of credit for $5,000.00. We took out a letter of credit at our bank in Indiana. When later we inspected the property where we were going to mine, it wasn't on our property. We notified the Dept. Of Mineral and Geology of our frnding and to cancel out permit. They never canceled it. After 17 years they went after our letter of credit of $S, 000.00 and a fine amounting to $3, 000.00 totaling $8, 000.00 At this time, they never checked to see if there was any land disturbance or mining activity. When we finally contacted them after our banker notified us that they had tried to get the money. They stated they tried to contact us but we did not give them our forwarding address. Well.... they had our address because we had a permit we received in 1992,