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THOMAS J. FINCH <br />ATTORNEY AT LAW <br />HIGHLAND OFFICES <br />885 ARAPAHOE AVENUE <br />BOULDER, COLORADO 80302 <br />TELEPHONE: (303) 449-7050 <br />FAX: (303) 449-2316 <br />EMAIL: ThomasJFinch(4) ,shoo corn <br />March 6, 2009 <br />Mr. Allen Sorenson v <br />Reclamation Specialist <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />R r) <br />1A'R, 0 ; a 2009 <br />Division 'r <br />_/-t MiniOg ant? Safety <br />Via FAX: (303)832-8106 and U.S. Mail <br />RE: Gold Hill Mill Permit No. M-1994-117; Request for Technical`Revisions <br />Dear Mr. Sorenson: <br />My firm represents Mi Vida Enter?ises, Inc. ("Mi Vida"), a corporation that owns both <br />the Cash and Who do Mines (Permit M-7983-141), as well as the land where the Gold Hill Mill's <br />tailings pond is located (Permit M-1994-117) up in Boulder County. Mi Vida has an operating <br />agreement with Consolidated Global Minerals; Ltd: which conducts its operations in the Gold <br />Hill Mining. District.through its subsidiary, Mount'Royale Ventures; LLC ("MRV"). <br />It has come to our attention that MRV has filed a request'for a "technicat revision to'the <br />Gold Hill Mill Permit referenced above by a letter,. addressed to Mr. Tony Waldron of your <br />office and dated January 30, 2009 ("the Request"), though it appears to have been hand-delivered <br />only on February 6, 2009. The purpose of the Request is apparently to get your Department's <br />permission to allow the Gold Hill Mill to process ore from off-site locations and then dispose of <br />the tailings, at least in part, underground in mine workings that neither belong to MRV or to the <br />offsite suppliers of ore. In particular, it seems MRV is looking to dispose of the tailings from the <br />processed ore by placing them on lands owned by my client, Mi Vida. <br />We write to say that we strenuously object to this Request and we particularly resent the <br />underhanded manner in which this alternation of the existing permit structure has been sought. <br />Any suggestion that this Request is a mere "technical revision" of the existing permits is fatuous. <br />Quite the contrary, this Request is violative of the existing permits issued to the Gold Hill Mill <br />by both the your Division of the State of Colorado and Boulder County. <br />Apparently, the off-site ore is supposed to come from Tom Hendricks of Calais <br />Resources, Inc., whose Cross Mine (Permit M-1977-410) is located some ten (10) miles from the <br />Gold Hill Mill. It was our understanding that Calais was supposed to have constructed its own <br />millsite to process its own ore. Be that as it may, the "revision" propsed by MRV could result in <br />up to 70;000 tons of ore being processed through the Gold Hill Mill with 70,000 tons of mill <br />waste destined to be disposed of in mine workings owned by my client. <br />60