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iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 999 STATE OF COLORADO DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY Department nl Natural Resnurce5 111 3 Sherman St., Ruum 215 J~y~~ Dcnvc•r, Colorado 80'U 4 I I Phone: (3U31 866J567 PA%:17031832-8106 January 3, 1997 DEPARTMENT OF To: Assessment Officer NATURAL RESOURCES From: Janet Binn `CJ Roy ROmer Governor lames S Lochhead Executive Director Re: NOV-C-96-021, Marr Mine (permit no. C-80-006) Michael B. LOng Division Dveclor To aid in your review this memo serves to summarize events leading to the issuance of NOV-C-96-021. The Marr Mine site is mostly reclaimed. One mine foreman, Mr. James Mossman, maintains and performs caretaker duties at the mine. The operator has contracted the removal of approx. 10,000 cu. yds. of coal from the Load Out. No active coal extraction is occurring. The last inspection I was on site, October, Jim and I briefly discussed that he didn't know what kind of hdtrs he would be at the mine site in the future. I mentioned that if Kerr Coal Company planned to keep the mine records at the mine site that we would need to work something out to allow access to the records. We did not resolve this when I left the site in October. No inspection was conducted in November. I arrived at the load out approx. 9:45 am, December 12, 1996. No one was on site and the gate was locked. I drove to the mine site approx 12 miles east. The gate to the mine site was locked and no one was present. I returned to Walden and attempted to call the mine office (in case there was call forwarding on it). No success. I received a phone company recording stating that the number I had called was not accepting calls. So I found Mr. Mossman's home telephone number and tried to contact him at home. I then returned to the load out at approx 10:25 am and conducted that portion of my inspection. At approximately 11:10 am I returned to Walden and tried to contact Mr. Mossman at home. No answer. I continued back to the mine site and conducted the rest of my ground inspection at the mine site. I had noted a key hanging on the gate at the load out so I looked around the gate at the mine site for a hidden key. No success. Once my inspection progressed to the mine warehouse area~I again looked for a potentially hidden key. The mine records are stored in the office in the mine warehouse. The warehouse/office were locked. No sign of a hidden key could be found.