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• r1 J. E. STOVER ~ ASSOCIATES 2768 COMPASS DRIVE, SUITE 101 GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO 81506 PHONE: (970) 245-4101, FAX 242-7908 MINE ENGINEERING MINE RECLAMATION Apri125, 2001 Mr. Joseph Dudash Division of Minerals and Geology 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 Dear Mr. Dudash: CIVIL ENGINEERING CONST. MANAGEMENT Re: Bowie Resources Limited Bowie No 2 Mine Adequacy Response 1999 Annual Reports Permit No. C-96-083 On Behalf of Bowie Resources Limited, we are submitting the following in response to the adequacy concerns expressed in your letter of November 30, 2000. 1999 Annual Hydroloev Report /n the data presented in the 1999 AHR, there are quire a few springs, two surface water sites (Stepp-up and TC-West) and four ground water sites (DH-13, AW-1, AW-8 and AW- 10) that are missing baseline full suite analyses. This is even though, apparently, enough water was present to be sampled. /n addition, at some sites (5-10, Stepp-up, DH-13, DH- 57, DH-58, DH-58a and AW-2), the field baseline data is absent, even though, apparently, water was present that could have been sampled. Please explain. There aze quite a few springs included in the monitoring program which aze normally dry or seeps. These springs have not produced water in sufficient quantity to require full suite analysis. The operator feels that the absence of flows from these sources is the baseline for these springs. Stepp-up has never exhibited flows sufficient for analysis. TC-west was monitored in anticipation of a future permit expansion. Any permit expansion that would now include the drainage basin of TC-west is now considered in the distant future, and as such, this point will no longer be monitored. Sites S-10 and Stepp-up do not produce sufficient water for field pazameters or a derivation of baseline from those pazameters. DH-13 was destroyed by mining, but before