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. TRINIDAD BASIN MINING CO <br />HC 81, Box 6 <br />Barbourville, Ky. 40906 <br />January 4, 1993 <br />Steve Renner <br />Division of Minerals 6 Geology <br />1313 Sherman st., Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203-2273 <br />Dear Mc. Renner: <br />III IIIIIIIIIIIII III <br />sss <br /> <br />JAN 0 71893 <br />MANE San, ~~r- <br />Rq~ 1S1 <br />a u~o~,• ,,;y <br />I am the operator of Trinidad Basin Mining. I have tried <br />r_o r.eclaim the mine according to regulations. I have even <br />reclaimed areas that were pre-law disturbance and was not even <br />my responsibility. Anyone who walks the site can see how good <br />the reclamation has been done. It is excellent. I cannot get <br />any corporation from the division therefore, I feel it is in my <br />best interest to abandon the site. <br />Steve, I know you have iheard about this job, I'm sure you <br />have been told the mines was opened years and years ago. I have <br />reclaimed the red dog, this >s some of the area where we have <br />reclaimed to blend in with mine. We reclaimed the disturbance <br />from both underground mines and old Wiggins strip mine area <br />that we are not getting any credit for. <br />Everything was working good until. the surface land owner <br />and mineral owner got into a law suit on who gets the royalties <br />and I had a new permit that the mine reclamation just issued me <br />and the court ruled me off the property so I stayed on and <br />reclaimed for seven (7) long years daily maintaining it in order <br />to have a name that I would not leave a job before it was finished. <br />The biggest problem that we have since we no longer have <br />control of the t~ropecty. and it was sold at a court sage. is <br />the people who bought it have built streets and houses on this <br />property. The maintenance of the site has been extremely <br />difficult not only because of high rainfall, but because the <br />surface owners are against all activity on surf ac e, and have <br />threatened us with law suits. It has happened in the past when <br />we brought equipment on the site the land owners would protest <br />and wanted us to leave. <br />I am not a large contractor and I am not doing this work <br />anymore. I am out of business in that field. I work at a day <br />job like you do. I can't afford the expense anymore, I have <br />been paying for this out of my own salary from here, and I <br />can't do it anymore. I'm not just saying this and making excuses, <br />but since I have no tight of entry on the property anymore and <br />this has been a problem for a number of years. <br />-continue- <br />