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III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 999 BATTLE MOUNTAIN RESOURCES, INC. February 14, 2001 Mr. Jim Dillie Colorado Division of Minerals & Geology 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver. CO 80203 Dear Mr. Dillie: RECEIVED FEB 16 1001 Division of Minerals and Geobgy In regard [o your letter dated February 06, 2001, concerning missing quarterly lab reports (October 2000) for the monitoring wells M-9, M-12, SF-I and M13R. These reports, except for SF~I were mailed to your oftice on December 08, 2000 but were apparently never received. Copies of these reports (i.e., M- 9, M-12, M-13R) have been resent to your attention. With regards to the quarterly analytical results from monitoring well SF-1, attempt3 were made to collect a sample from the well, but due to insufficient groundwater supply a representative sample collection was unable to be obtained. Currently, [he well purging is only yielding the ground~Nater contained within the well bore (e.g., one pore volume) and is requiring multiple days' to recover to a level which additional groundwater can be extracted. Therefore, this slow yield of groundwatert recovery is well outside the groundwater sampling criteria contained in TR-006. As you are aware BMRI has installed a replacement well (i.e., SF-1 R) for SF-1 as requested by the Division, since the well SF-1 was screened across geologic formation. Currently, 1~MRI is monitoring the well recovery in this new well. Just as identified above, the groundwater supplyto this well has been very slow as well. We will continue to monitor the groundwater recovery in both off the wells and obtain a sample as soon as a representative sample can be ccllccted. If you have questions or concerns please contact me at (719) 379-0798. Sincere ~~ David E. Long Environmental Coordinator I Cc: Bill Lyle File A SUBSIDIARi' OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN GOLD COh1PANY P.O. Bux 110 San Luis. Colorado 81153-0310 (719) 672-412? Fax 1719) 672-336J