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• The Jce Dandy Gold Mining Company to Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company recorded as Reception No. 500847. 147. Quitclaim Deed dated February 1, 2000 from Ralph Y. Clair to Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company. 148. Quitclaim Deed dated February 1, 2000 from Lois C. Knowlton to Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company. 149. Quitclaim Deed dated February 1, 2000 from Nancy C. Bauman to Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company. B. Legal Right to Enter Property in Common As a matter of Colorado common law, a co-tenant in mining property may mine and extract, mill, and dispose of the ore subject only to the duty to account to the nonworking co-tenant for his or her proportionate shaze of the profits produced by the mining activity. In addition, Colorado has a special statute granting broad rights to a co-tenant of mining property. The statute specifies that any tenant in common shall have the right to "enter upon, occupy, prospect, develop and work"amine, "in a minerlike manner, • extracting, milling, and disposing of the ore from the common property without the consent of any nonworking tenant in common, subject to accounting to the nonworking tenant for his proportionate share of the net profits of such mining operations." C.R.S. §34-44-103 C. Legal Right to Enter Leased Property 1. Mining Land Lease effective June 18, 1987 between Clyde Eaton Smith and Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company, recorded July 2, 1987 in Book 412, Page 123. 2. Surface Lease from Frances E. Maddox to NERCO Minerals, properly assigned to Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company, dated January 19, 1985, recorded in Book 374, Page 769. 3. Lease from Gaston Coblentz and Cherry M. Lawrence to Silver State Mining Corporation, properly assigned to Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company, dated October 15, 1980. 4. Mining Lease dated July 24, 1996 between John W. Houlihan and William N. • Houlihan, as successor trustees under that certain Trust created October 20, 1975, as amended October 19, 1995, Lessor, and Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining N-14