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• Permit No: C1981013
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 12/29/1993
• Doc Name: RESPONSE TO LETTER OF 12/16/93 BASIN RESOURCES INC GOLDEN EAGLE MINE PN C-81-013
• From: DMG
• To: JIM TATUM & ASSOC
• Permit Index Doc Type: PUBLIC CORRESPONDENCE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY

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Roy Romer
Governor
December 29, 1993 Mic hael B. Long
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Mr. Jim Tatum
Jim Tatum and Associates
8703 Bonhomme
Houston, TX 77074
RE: Response to Letter of December 16, 1993, Basin Resources, Inc.,
The Golden Eagle Mine, Permit No. C-81-013
Dear Mr. Tatum:
The Division received your December 16, 1993 letter regarding the Golden Eagle
Mine on December 20, 1993. We wish to provide the following responses.
Thank you for the photograph identifying your well's location relative to
the Golden Eagle Mine's airshaft. We will measure the well distance,
hill slope angles, and direction from the airshaft and place the location
of your well relative to the airshaft on our maps. Map 1 "Surface
Ownership" for the Golden Eagle Mine, submitted to us on March 6, 1990,
has a well symbol located in the vicinity of your well, but it's placed
within the property boundaries of the landowner to the east of your
property (Charon),
As we indicated in our letter of November 4, 1993, your well was
identified by Wyoming Fuel in their 1988 Water Users Survey as
non-functioning. As such, while the well's yield immediately prior to
the construction of the airshaft continues to be an issue, the existence
of the well appears documented by Wyoming Fuel in 1988 and 1990.
2. Thank you for also bringing to our attention testimony by Basin Resources
regarding the improper casing of the airshaft by Wyoming Fuel, the
previous permittee. Please provide a copy of that testimony, for our
review. Having such evidence may assist us in determining the extent of
any impact by the airshaft on local aquifers, and specifically your well.
3. In February of 1993, we informed the Air Pollution Control Division of
the Colorado Department of Health regarding your concerns with impacts to
your vegetation being caused by the Golden Eagle Mine exhaust fan. We
will bring your concerns to their attention again, as they have
apparently not responded to your requests. However, we also recommend
that you again contact them directly. Their address and phone number ,are:
Colorado Department of Health
Air Pollution Control Division
4300 Cherry Creek Drive South
Denver, CO 80222 692-3100