GENERAL36737

• Permit No: C1981013
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 12/6/1994
• Doc Name: RESPONSE TO NOVEMBER 9 1994 LETTER BASIN RESOURCES INC THE GOLDEN EAGLE MINE PN C-81-013
• From: DMG
• To: JIM TATUM
• Permit Index Doc Type: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Depanmem o! Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
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December 6, 1994
Mr. Jim Ta[um
8703 Bonhomme
Houston, Texas 77074
Re: Response to November 9, 1994 Letter
Basin Resources, Inc., The Golden Eagle Mine, Permit No. C-81-013
Dear Mr. Tatum:
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DEPARTMEf+I"F OF
NATURAL
RESOURCES
Roy Romer
Governor
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Division Uneclrn
On November 14, 1994, [he Division received your letter dated November 9, 1994 and addressed
to Mr. Daniel I. Hernandez. We have concluded our review of your letter, and provide the
following responses in the order of the items discussed in your letter.
1. "It appears that the report you furnished Surface Mining indicates that the underground
mining that approached our house never got closer than 600 to 700 feet. We now know that
this distance was considerably less than the distance reported to Surface Mining. Why was
not the fact of the matter related to Surface Mining."
Your statement that information was provided to the Office of Surface Mining by the
Division that indicated a distance of 600 to 700 feet between the Solitario ranch house and
the First North Main is incorrect. To address this, a short history of this matter should be
discussed.
The Division in June of 1993 received a letter from your offices dated May 25, 1993. This
letter discussed concerns with damage to your main residence (the ranch house) being
possibly related to underground mine subsidence. On July 7, 1993, the Division responded
to this letter, stating that room-and-pillar operations beneath the Purgatoire River were
limited by the Division to an extraction ratio of 50 percent to prevent subsidence, and, as
such, the Division did not believe the damage to the ranch house was mining related.
The Division further indicated in its July 7, 1993 letter to your offices that [he distance from
the ranch house to the First North Main was 750 feet. This distance was determined partly
from the photographs of the pink-stuccoed ranch house on the Solitario Ranch provided by
your offices to us earlier in 1993, and partly from the description of Structure No. 28 on
Basin Resources' Structure Inventory Map as the "Pink Adobe House."
A copy of the Division's July 7, 1993 letter to your offices was provided to the Las Anunas
County Planning and Land Use Office. On July 23, 1993, the County provided a response to