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(Page 2) <br />MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID #: rot-t 987-n72 <br />INSPECTION DATE: n2J23ma INSPECfOR~ INITIALS: TAS <br />OBSERVATIONS <br />1. A site inspection of the Lee No. 2 Placer was conducted as part of the Division's omgoing 4-year inspection program. <br />The Division last inspected the site in July, 2000. Present during the inspection was Mr. Stanley J. Conner. The Lee No. 2 <br />Placer is located in lower Russell Gulch, approximately 3 miles southeast of Central City, Colorado. <br />2. The operator has obtained a mining claim from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a total of 40 acres and has <br />obtained a mining and reclamation permit from the Division for 1 acre of disturbance. The mining claim is specfied as <br />Lee #2 Placer Claim/gold/SE 40 acres, NWl/4 Section 20, T3S, R72W, Gilpin County. The operator has posted a financial <br />warranty of $1,200. lire post-mining land use is pastureland. <br />3. The mining plan consists of removing creek bed materials, processing them through a trammel and sluice box, then re- <br />depositing these materials back into the creek bed. A piCWith dimensions of~iGO x 300 feet will be filled with water and <br />used as part of the placer operation. The operator has specified that ore materials will be processed on site without the <br />use of any chemicals or hazardous substances. <br />4, There was virtually no mining disturbance at the Lee No. 2 Placer at the time of inspection, except for a variety of <br />miscellaneous mining equipment that oaumed on site prior to 1987 when Mr. Conner acquired a mining and reclamation <br />permit. Mr, Conner has done a good job of backfilling and grading disturbed areas in the creek bed and surrounding area <br />to natural contours that blend in with the surrounding topog2phy. There was no pit or exposed water noted. The <br />operator has also removed several loads of non-roadable mining equipment. Only hand, broadest seeding of <br />approximately 0.5 acres would be required to complete reclamation of the current disturbance. This inspector finds that <br />the $1,200 reclamation bond is adequate to complete reclamation of the current disturbance. <br />5. A permit I.D. sign was posted near the entrence to the site and perrnft boundary markers were also noted. All mining <br />disturbances were found to be within the permit boundary. <br />6. There were no problems noted. <br />I & E Contact Address <br />NAME: Stanley J, Conner <br />OPERATOR: PO Box 102073 <br />STREET: r>Pnver ('1) 80250-2073 <br />crry/srATE/uP: <br />cc: Carl Mount, DMG (via E-Mail) <br />Bureau of Land Management <br />2850 Youngfiekl <br />Lakewood, CO 80215 <br />