PERMFILE115729

• Permit No: M1992045
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 3/3/2006
• Doc Name: Possible Prospect in Chaffee County within Permit Boundary
• From: DMG cbm
• To: Mr. James Van Ella
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Depamnent of Natural Resources
7313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: (303) 86!.3567
FAX: [phone]
COLORADO
DIVISION OF
MINERALS
GEOLOGY
0.E! L~N~ilO N•MINING
March 3, 2006 Bill Owens
Governor
Mr. James Van Ella R~EEeu ceolge
180 Ln. 200 Bass Lake Executive Director
IN. 46703
An ola
g Ronald w. Cottony
, Division Director
Natural Resource Tnlstee
Re: Possible Prospect in Chaffee County within Permit Boundary of Permit M-1992-045.
Deaz Mr. Van Ella:
The Division of Minerals and Geology has received yow request to file for a Notice of Intent to Conduct Prospecting
(NOI) within the Gold Basin permit area and to forward any documents and fees in question. I have enclosed a NOI form
for yow use. However, the Division of Minerals and Geology believes that it is not appropriate to file for a NOI on the
azea proposed because the area in question is already within the boundaries of the approved permit azea and that any
prospecting activities within that permit area are part of the mining operations (Sections 34-32-113(1.5), (4), (8), and
(12)). The statute and regulations establish that prospecting is before development; development is before mining;
and, once mining is being performed, any prospecting and/or development work falls within mining activities allowed
by an approved mining and reclamation permit.
In addition, you stated, in the last amendment, that you would not distwb the azea that you are now proposing to
distwb. Therefore, please revise yow present permit to allow distwbance in this area including submitting a new map
to show this distwbance and posting a bond to cover the reclamation cost prior to any new distwbance in the area.
After you revise your permit, you may then go ahead and prospect on the mine permit area. This type of revision to
yow permit can usually be handled as a technical revision and does not require any fee. However, the Division
always reserves the light to determine whether an application to revise a permit is a technical revision or amendment
until after we receive the application and have reviewed the proposed activifies.
If you have any questions, please contact me at [phone] or write to me at the above address.
Si erely,
~°
Carl B. Mount
Senior Environmental Protection Specialist
Encloswe
Cc: H. Bruce Humphries, Minerals Program Supervisor (via email)
Cheryl Linden, AGO (via email)
Office of Office of Colorado
Mined Land Reclamation Active and Inactive Mines Geological Survey