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1 <br />Gonzales, Nov 27,2004,'!, p.2 con"t <br />order, and to maintain the buildings and equipment in a safe, <br />orderly, and minerlike fashion. In August, 1998, I was hired(tr) <br />to do a brief consulting job at the Joker Mill by Zachery Construction <br />of San Antonio, TX, who was, at that time in a joint venture <br />with M&MII. The JV was called Elkhead iv, and planned to mine <br />ore at the Joker Mine and haul it to Baggs and process it there <br />in a pilot scale mill to prove up a leaching process developed <br />by the JV. My consulting work at the Joker was comprised of sampling <br />198 barrels of concentrates and geological samples stored back <br />of the Joker Mill at the 1986 shutdown. Orvie and Chuck Zimmerman <br />moved the barrels inside, while I opened them up and sampled for <br />any hazardous materials. Most of the barrels were geological samples <br />that were in deteriorated cloth bags, so were dumped, and the <br />remaining 98 barrels of valuable table concentrates were sampled <br />and found to be non-hazardous. The door to the mill was stuck c;en <br />and Orvie was injured when he fell twenty feet from the loader <br />bucket to the concrete floor while trying to repair the door. <br />The Elkhead JV ended in 7999, krhen M&1111 expected to take <br />61% of the JV profits, with Zachsaj-yfi.nancing everything for 39*. <br />Papers were provided to i44&Mll in March, 2000, ending the <br />joint venture formally and deeding the Joker Mill buildings and <br />equipment to M&MII, indicating "tUM11 would be responsible for <br />the buildings and equipment, under terms of the underlying raining <br />lease from the Zimmerman family". The Zimmerman lease provided <br />that leasee M&MII would maintain the mining permit, mill and buildings <br />in good order, and that the title to the mill equipment, buildings, <br />permits, and water wells and water rights would revert to the claim <br />owner(Zimmerman family) 90 days after termination of the lease.