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' e~.t~I2 ~~a z X112 180 I cnm 200 Banc Lake Angola, Indiana -!(>703 260--h6.i-7060 260-668-036? goldharin'd hotmcrii. cunr December I5, 2005 Division of Minerals and Geology 1313 Sherman Street Room 21 S Deriver, Colorado 80203 Dear Mr. Cattany, I am at a loss as to whom to turn to, to get the problem solved with your division. I am sure you have read my marry letters. At this point we haven't gotten anywhere close to solving our problem with Carl Mount. I will again explain the problems we have had with the Dept. since we applied for and received our first pesmit. We applied for a prospecting permit to prospect for gold on the property we own with a lode mine on it called the Emma Lode Enterprise. We received our permit and had to put up a letter of credit with our bank totaling $5;000.00. After we took another look at where we wanted to prospect we decided it was not on our property sa we notifred the Dept. of Mineral and Geotogy to cancel our permit giving them that reason and we thought it was taken care of. This was back in 1987. Then in 2004 our banker notifred us of a problem we had with your Dept. We got in touch with the Dept. and told them we had never mined for gold on the property and this is when all our problems started. Your Dept. wanted our lever of credit plus a fine for $3, 000.00 totaling $8, 000.00. We thought that the Dept would have notifred us since we have another permit and had received our yearly assessment paper work every year for 12 years. The only excuse they could come up with is; we didn't give them our forwarding address. No one from your Dept. even said they were sorry for putting us through this mess. When ftnally we got the Emma Lode property inspected by Erica Crosby and Carl Mount they also wanted to inspect our 161 acres, Gold Basin Mine. Fram their attitude we knew it wasn't going to be easy.