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• <br />Tatman and Hartley are now in ajoint venture with Franklin Consolidated Mining <br />Co., which is being hauled before the mining board to respond to DMG inspection <br />evidence that <br />* the company tailed to submit rcyuired goundwater analyses and failed "to minimize <br />disturbances to_.. the quality and quantity of water in surface and groundwater systems; <br />* a drainage ditch had been backfilled; a drainage diversion and a drainage pipeline were <br />no longer functional; and "disturbances to the hydrologic balance of the affected land and <br />surrounding area" had not been minimized; <br />* tailings had been placed on unlined areas of the tailings pond embankment and in other <br />unsuitable areas and constituted "failure to handle acid forming ortoxic-producing <br />material in a manner that will protect the drainage system from pollution." <br />Friends of Eldora Valle} plans to ask the mining board, at its February 21-22 <br />hearing, to draw the obvious conclusions from a series of facts: 1) Wayne batman <br />abandoned a mine in Washington that left cyanide wastes in groundwater; 2) three waste <br />spills occurred at Gold Hill under the supervision of Tatman and Hartley; 3) Tatman and <br />Hartley are now partipants in the joint venture at the Idaho Springs mill; 4) a January <br />state inspection of the Idaho Springs mill showed multiple waste drainage threats: 5) the <br />Idaho Springs Mill, like Ta[man's superfund site, is designed for a cyanide process. <br />The "cyanide catastrophe at Summitville," says FEV's Teter, "should prompt the <br />board to leave no stone unturned to block Front 12ange mining by demonstrably <br />incompetent and irresponsible operators." <br />