2010-05-07_PERMIT FILE - P2010005

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May 4, 2010 Dennis and Lucy Cordova P.O. Box 159 Manassa, CO 81141 RWRIVED MAY 10 2010 Dimon Of Rt GiwM&q on, Mining and Safety Division of Reclamation,Mining and Safety Durango Field Office 6921 CR. 233 Rm A-2 Durango, CO 81301 C? dd O;?suod?9o n9 fRee?o, ah?sa?y o? ? VA 3 E I ahJV 4'el 1167 vVA'__ RE: Lickskillet Claims, New Notice of Intent to Prospect (NOI) file No. P-2010-005 Dear Mr. Oswald, We are responding to your letter dated April 29, 2010, regarding our plan to prospect the Lickskillet claims project areas. We plan on pursuing Phase 1 at this time. We have opted not to pursue Phase 2 at this point and time. We would like to add phase 2 through a modification to the existing NOI in the future. In Phase I, we plan on screening and sifting through the re-workings and backfilling of pre-mined waste rock. After screening and examining the waste rock dump sites, we will place the waste rock into the pre existing pit. We will use a track hoe and the use of a 1 ton dump truck to dump into the pre-existing pit. We will not create any new pits through the removal or excavation of pre-mined waste rock. If the waste rock is on a sloped surface, the material we move from that area will be conformed to the existing site with a gentle slope subject to a slope limit of a 3-1 grade. If the area that we remove rock from is on a level bench area, it will be gently smoothed to conform to a level area. We will avoid sediment by not creating any pits or unnecessary cuts in the ground where we remove waste rock. After screening the waste dead rock, we will place the waste dead rock into the existing pit. We will try to salvage growth medium and vegetation whenever it is found during our operation, so that it can replace over back fill to its natural contours to be compatible with the surrounding topograph after final reclamation is completed. We will dump dead waste rock and push it in the pit floor against the high wall. I doubt that the pit will ever