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:.,, ~ ^. <br />III IIIIIIIIIIIII III <br />In Reply Refer To: <br />CO-923 <br />G0127832 <br />C-0I27833 <br />C-0127834 <br />AU6 21 tip 3483 <br />rtified Mail - Rehtrn Recein• t Requested <br />DECISION <br />Mr. Alfred G. Hoyl <br />P.O, Box 130 <br />Rollinsvi]le, Colorado 80474 <br />Mr. Donald E. Wilde <br />1660 South Albion Street, Suite 414 <br />Denver Colorado 80222 <br />ARplication for Coal Lease Suspensions Denied <br />Background. On July 12, 1989, Alfred G. Hoyl and Donald E. Wilde completed an <br />application for 5-year suspensions of coal leases C-0127832, C-0127833, and C-0127834, <br />pending approval of assignments of the leases from American Shield Coal Company. <br />The lease assignments were approved effective January 1, 1990, allowing processing of <br />the application for suspension to proceed Additional data to support the application <br />was received on June 18, 1990. Hoyl and Wilde's application for 5-yeaz suspensions of <br />operations and production in the interest of conservation and/or force tnajeure <br />suspensions is based on a mine fire which occurred in June 1983 in the Fruits No. 1 <br />Mine. <br />The Fruits No. 1 Mine, approximately 1S-miles north of Fruits, Colorado, is located <br />entirely on a small parcel of fee land duectly south of and adjacent to coal lease <br />C-0127833. The mine consists of three entries driven upward from below the Catneo <br />coal outcrop which intersected the 17- to 26-foot thick Cameo coal bed approxmately <br />825-feet inby the ponal. Total entry length was 950 to 975 feet, ending approximately <br />100~feet outside the southern boundary of lease C-0127833. No further production has <br />occurred frotn the Fruits No. 1 since this development was completed in 1979, 2 years <br />before the subject leases were issued. As evidenced by the May 27, 1983, Mine Safety <br />and Health Administration (MSHA) report attached to the application, Dorchester Coal <br />Company, lessee/operator at that dme, became aware in April 1983 that the previously <br />detected heating/spontaneous combustion problem was progressing across the mine. Oa <br />the basis of roof falls in the No. 3 entry in October 1982 and in the No. 2 entry in April <br />