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TRAPPER MINING INC. June 24, 2003 Ms. Janet Binns Environmental Protection Specialist Colorado Division of Minerals & Geology 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 RECEIVED JUN 2 6 2003 Division sf Minerals and Geology Re: Trapper Mining Inc., Permit No. C-81-010, Permit Renewal RN-04/Permit, Revision PR-O5, Response to Round III Comments Dear Ms. Binns: This letter responds to the PR-OS comments outlined in your letter dated June 19, 2003. Enclosed permit page 1-7c is updated with this response. Trapper offers the following responses to the Division's comments (letter of 6/19/03): Response to Comment 1 (d). As discussed with Dan Hernandez by phone on June 23, 2003, Trapper will maintain pipeline relocation agreement documentation information on file at the mine office for review by interested parties. According to Trapper engineering staff, no future mining activity within close proximity of pipeline locations is planned. Thus, my comment in our last response that "Trapper will continue to closely monitor potential blasting impacts to pipelines situated within and adjacent to the permit area" maybe disregarded. Response to Comment 7. As discussed with Dan Hernandez by phone on June 23, 2003, Trapper is in the process of contracting with Vibra-Tech, a blasting consultant company from Austin Texas, to monitor airblast and ground vibration impacts in the eastern portion of the mine permit area where all of the active mining is now occurring. At a minimum, blast monitoring will be accomplished for each active pit, with an emphasis on monitoring cast blasts. Monitors will be set up at three different locations on the eastern and northeastern Trapper permit boundaries and monitoring will occur over a three to four month period beginning in July, 2003. The results of that monitoring will guide Trapper and the Division in determining an appropriate future monitoring frequency schedule. P.O. Box 187 Craig, Colorado 81626 (970) 824-4401