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;_ ~ III IIIIIIIIIIIII III • GOLD HILL VENTURES P.O. Box 1523 Longmont, Colorado 80502 (303) 651-2985 Mr. William C. York-Feirn Mined Land Reclamation Division 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 Dear Mr. York-Feirn, ~ECEIi~E.i~ MAR 2 5 1992 Mined Land Reclamation ~,~~~~~on March 25, 1992 This letter is Gold Hill Ventures' response to the Minerals Program Inspection Reports that were filed following your November 26, 1991, and February 13, 1992, inspections of the Gold Hill Mill facilities and the Cash mine permit area. In this letter, I will address the issue of what ores were processed in the Gold Hill Mill while it has been operated by Colina Oro Molina, Inc. under the direction of the on-site Mill Superintendent, Mr. J. Wayne Tatman. To my knowledge, COM, Inc. trucked ore and some concentrates from the Bueno mine and mill during the months of November and December, 1991. This material was processed in the mill during these same months and in the first weeks of January. This ore was dumped in front of and on top of low grade fines that had been brought up to the mill site during June and July, 1988, from the Cash mine dump. During the first week of January, 1992, I observed that COM, Inc. was beginning to lift larger and larger amounts of Gold Hill Ventures' ore when they were moving the Bueno ore to the mill's coarse ore bins. On January 16, 1992, I discovered that COM, Inc. had removed nearly half of Gold Hill Ventures' ore stockpile. Approximately 70 tons of this material could be seen in the covered coarse ore bin of the Gold Hill Mill. COM, Inc. processed this ore without Gold Hill Ventures' consent, and the concentrates produced from this ill-advised conversion of our ores to concentrates is now a matter of dispute between the owners and the mill operators. I am attaching copies of the correspondence that this incident produced. Mr. J. Wayne Tatman's assertion in his March 24, 1992, response letter that "Except for a few loads of rock from the Oscar mine to tune up the crushing circuit, the only ore that was processed at the Gold Hill Mill came from the Bueno mine" is not supported by the facts. I am also enclosing photographs of the mill site's ore stockpile area, which clearly show that his company removed more than "a few loads of rock" from Gold Hill Ventures' ore stockpile. Just so there is no confusion raised by Mr. Tatman's reference to the Oscar mine, I would like to point out that the Gold Hill Mill building was constructed on top of the shallow caved shafts of the Oscar mine. The development rock from the extensive Wynona mine workings were flattened out to construct the ore stockpile area and used to build the ramp to the coarse ore bins. The relationship of the Oscar patented lode claim to Gold Hill Ventures' other patented lode claims is well described in the aforementioned correspondence.