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USDA <br />Dolores Public Lands Office <br />USDA Forest Service 29211 Highway 184 USDI Bureau of Land Management <br />San Juan National Forest Dolores, CO 81323 San Juan Center <br />Dolores Ranger District Ph (970) 882-7296 Fax (970) 882-6841 Dolores Field Office <br />http://www.fs.fed. us/r2/sanjuan http://www.co-.bim.gov <br />Memorandum: Inspection Report Memo for Denison Mines' Sunday Mines Complex. <br />Date of Inspection: 04/20/2010 <br />People Present: James Blair: DPLO, Ivan Messenger: DPLO, Christie Woodward: Denison <br />To: Jamie Sellar-Baker, DPLO Associate Field Manager <br />From: James Blair (preparer), DPLO Geologist <br />Purpose <br />The first reason for the inspection was to familiarize Ivan and myself with the location and <br />setting of the mines, since neither of us had yet been to the site. The second reason for the <br />inspection was to check on what was being done in association with the idling of the mines, and <br />to ensure that the Plan of Operations for the mines are being followed. <br />Summary <br />On April 20th, 2010, I inspected the Sunday Mines Complex with Ivan Messenger, DPLO <br />biologist, and Christie Woodward, Denison's Environmental Engineer.. Christie met us at the <br />Dolores Public Lands Office at 11 am and we drove out to the site. We arrived on site and <br />visited the drill pads of each of the mines in the Sunday Mines Complex. Presently, the Sunday, <br />Carnation and St. Jude mines are covered under plan of Operations COC-53227. Topaz and <br />West Sunday are covered under Plan of Operations COC-52049. Only a skeleton crew was <br />present at the site. They were securing the mine site for the planned hiatus. This involved <br />removing certain equipment from underground and gobbing-in the mine portals with muck. This <br />will allow Denison to prevent unauthorized entry to the idled mines and to shut off the <br />ventilation while nobody is there. <br />Overall, the site looked good and was fairly clean. No major problem:, were observed during the <br />inspection, only some minor housekeeping issues, including some scrap that needs to be cleaned <br />up, and a compressor with a recently punctured oil pan that resulted in a small spill. I did not <br />observe any seeps at the toe of any of the dumps. One of the recently developed ventilation <br />shafts was also inspected. Photographs of each mine portal area and the vent are included <br />below. <br />On the way back from the mines we stopped at Denison's offices in Egnar and spoke with Jim <br />Fisher, Mine Superintendant, and Terry MacKinnon, H&S Director. Jim invited me to stop by <br />any time if I needed to know anything about the mine. We also discussed security at the site, <br />while the mines are idle. He said that there have been problems with attempted unauthorized <br />.. -'~F-1 ;'? 7 FS--6200-12a