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Upon checking our boundaries, they both stated that we were out of our <br />boundaries by .8 on an acre. They both have worked many years with <br />miners and mine rules and we feel they should have been fair and <br />knowledgeable with us. We had pre-law-pre permit roads and they never <br />felt it fair to mention them to us. The only thing they could say is you have <br />to amend your permit and it will cost $875.00. The pre permit pre-law road <br />is one of the first rules in your book of 160+ pages of rules. They should <br />have deducted them. After we contested them, Carl Mount came back up <br />the next spring with Steve, another specialists and reworked the disturbed <br />area and found that all these years we have been mining on a 1.3 acre <br />because of the roads and the contour of our pit and etc. I asked Mount why <br />he didn't deduct the roads and his excuse was it looked to him, that we had <br />improved them. Again where do you put washed material in this small of an <br />area and still carry on a mining operation. It is impossible! This is mistake <br />number 2 and we feel so far both mistakes are astronomical. <br />At this time maybe I should point out that the people who work in your <br />Dept. should have done the math; how can you work at an altitude of <br />12,200 elevation for only 4 months a year because of weather conditions <br />and have a permit that states we can move 70, 000 tons of gravel a year on a <br />1.3 acre site! <br />I also need to point out that even though Carl Mount will not admit it, when <br />we got our permit the person who was in charge of gra»ting it should have <br />realized that it was wrong to grant a permit that the miner is allowed to <br />wash 70, 000 tons of material on a 3 acre permit He too should have <br />deducted the pre-law-pre permit roads; after all he was a SPECL4LISTS! <br />Carl states in his letters that specialists cannot dictate how much acres we <br />mine. William York-Fern told us that 3 acres is all we could mine on a 110 <br />permit and the charge is $875.00. Then on top of that big mistake; the <br />price of the annual assessment fee was $75.00 but should have been <br />$225.00. We have a signed permit by William Long stating this charge. <br />This is number 3 mistake! <br />Then back in the 1985 All Right Mining was granted a permit and walked <br />away leaving the bond money of $5, 000.00. When I asked Bruce Humphries <br />why it took 8 + years for your department to clean up the property, this is <br />Gold Basin property, he stated he didn't know! He informed me later that <br />the Dept. didn't have the personal! 1 am sorry I don't believe him! And <br />think about it... how long would your Dept. !et us get away with some hair <br />brained excuse like that? 8 YEARS! Mistake number 4. Sometime in this <br />time frame Mount stated to me that my letters had to stop! How can they <br />when we hove a lot of money and years on the line. If we had not stood up <br />for our rights look at what it would have cost us! <br />