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~ ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Re~eiv~ <br />SAN <br />Midas Mining Company Ina ~ L z00? <br />~~~~~~~® Gunnison COQ s 81230 ~~0~~~e e~~ry~e -- <br />N O 12~ ~` a Geoff <br />~A mcrolsan Contact Phone (541) 9Z9~170 5 Load Phone (970) 64l-2732 °9Y <br />~Oeo1o9YFai (54l)929~174 ~}. p, <br />Osj51ene'M December 28, 2001 ~~ov~f'~ <br />Mr. Bob Oswald ~~~~'~~~ ~ ~ ~~~~ <br />Environmental Protection Specialist ~ ~~; ~ ~~~~ <br />Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology ~°BB~o'~~C)~ ~ <br />701 Camino del Rio Room 125 9 ~ ~ ~~~ 6 <br />Durango, CO 81301 P/° lccz7c ~o <br />Dear Mr. Oswald: Re: Ophir Lode, File No. M-2001-063, 110(2) <br />Permit Application, Second Adequacy Review <br />Letter dated December 21, 2001. <br />Exhibit A - Location Map(Rule 6.3.1 <br />1. Thank you for the correction and Midas Mining Company Inc. <br />(MMC) has corrected our map copy to scale, 1:24,000. <br />Exhibit B - Site Description (Rule 6.3.2) <br />2. Enclosed information from Mr. John Scott, Natural Resource <br />Conservation Service, Gunnison, Colorado regarding classification <br />of R0, Rock Outcrop and RS, Rock Slide. <br />Exhibit C - Mining Plan (Rule 6.3.3) No. 3 <br />MMC has noted your concerns regarding the old waste rock pile and <br />our plan to use this rock to surface Permitted BLM access road. <br />MMC will judiciously address your concerns and at no time will MMC <br />use this waste rock on drainage areas. Prior to removal MMC will <br />notify your office and .give a description of the rock, range of <br />size, volume needed and coloration of the waste rock. <br />4. Mr. Les Charles, MMC mine superintendent, has mined in many <br />of the mines in Western Hinsdale County in the viaizity of the Ophir <br />Lode. His experience indicates that through careful supervision <br />the ore pile can be shaped at the time the ore cars are dumped. <br />Using these technics a slope can be controlled to very close to a <br />3:1 ratio. This will allow MMC to cover the ore pile as it is <br />developed. If additional shaping is needed MMC will use a cat. <br />The new location for ore storage area provides for approximately <br />50 foot buffer strip all along Red Cloud Creek. The first few years <br />of mining should produce about 7,000 tons of ore per year and this <br />will be controlled by weather conditions. <br />5. The ore stock pile area is protected by Red Cloud Creek from <br />southern upland drainage, as Red Cloud travels almost parallel to <br />the ore stock pile area. The raised road bed leading to the <br />unpatented claims also is parallel to the ore storage. The uphill <br />side of the road will serve as a berm for any moisture drainage <br />continued page 2 <br />Wayne R Ginty, President <br />Les Charles, Irfine Su~amcmdmt <br />