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<br />STATE OF COLORADO
<br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
<br />Department of Natural Resources
<br />131 3 Sherman St., Room 21 5
<br />Denver, CO 80203
<br />Phone 13031 866-3567
<br />FA%: (3031 8J2-8106
<br />August 30, 1993
<br />Mr. Jim Tatum
<br />8703 Bonhomme
<br />Houston, Texas 77074
<br />Re: Responses to Letter of August 18, 1993
<br />Basin Resources, Inc., The Golden Eagle Mine, Permit No. C-81-013
<br />Dear Mr. Tatum:
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<br />Roy Romev
<br />Governor
<br />Michael B Long
<br />Division Director
<br />On August 23, 1993, we received your letter of August 18, 1993, regarding the Golden
<br />Eagle Mine. Regarding your Items 1 and 2, we recommend you contact Colorado Real
<br />Estate inspection Services, Inc. directly regarding any differences of opinion you may have
<br />with their March 8, 1993 report.
<br />Regarding your request for an investigation of the potential for impacts to your water well
<br />caused by the Golden Eagle Mine's operations, the Division, on January 19, 1993, in
<br />response to your December 15, 1992 letter, requested certain information about your well
<br />regarding its location, depth, water level, production rate, and location of other seeps or
<br />springs that had dried up.
<br />On February 12, 1993, we received the following response to this request from your
<br />offices: "I do not have a map showing the location of the well, but it is a short distance
<br />northeast of the shaft. The well has a historic use history of many years using a windmill to
<br />produce stock water, it will not do this now."
<br />It is apparent from our review of Basin Resources' permit files that your well is currently
<br />unpermitted with the Colorado Division of Water Resources' State Engineer's Office. This
<br />appears so as the list of area wells and their associated permit numbers, pumping rates, and
<br />approved use, provided by the operator as part of their application for mining, does not
<br />identify a well in the east half of Section 19, T33S, R67W, Las Animas County, as
<br />belonging to you. Basin Resources may have constructed the airshaft without knowledge of
<br />the existence of your well.
<br />However, in your two letters to us dated February 9, 1993, you stated that you made your
<br />concerns about damage to your well from the airshaft known to Basin Resources, and that
<br />in 1988 you had signed an agreement with the Golden Eagle Mine's previous operator,
<br />Wyoming Fuels, in which Basin Resources, according to you, was specifically requested in
<br />writing to determine whether the proposed airshaft would damage your well. In another
<br />letter sent to us dated March 25, 1993, you further stated that Basin Resources, according
<br />to you, admitted that they encountered water during construction of their airshaft.
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