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STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY <br />Departmem of Na.u ai R(?SOL rc.(?S <br />1 € 3 Sherman St.. Roof" ? 15 <br />Denver, Coiorado 802103 <br />Phone: 303) 66-356 <br />FAX: (30 3;. £3::12-t3 06 <br />Form 2 <br />Public information only <br />For public filing <br />COLORNDO <br />DIVISION or <br />RECLAMATION <br />MINING <br />SAFETY <br /> <br />d. r--k D. Sherrni4r: <br />Ex(,4 Wive'Dve'tor <br />NOTICE OF INTENT TO CONDUCT PROSPECTING OPERATIONS Ron Jd -'v. Cat€anv <br />FOR HARD ROCK/IIETAL V1 ES <br />Natund R: sowce Trt.<.ti <br />GENERAL: <br />To conduct prospecting activities in the State of Colorado, a person or organization must file a Notice of Intent to conduct <br />Prospecting Operations (NOI or Prospecting Notice) and provide a financial warranty for the prospecting operations to the <br />Mined Land Reclamation Board (MLRB or Board). All prospecting operations must comply with the Colorado Mined Land <br />Reclamation Act, as amended (34-32-101 et seq. C.R.S.), and the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board Hard <br />Rock/Metal Mines Rules and Regulations 2 CCR 407-1 and amendments to those rules ("Rules"). This NOI form is for all <br />minerals except coal and construction materials. The Division shall determine (where there is a question) if an operation is <br />prospecting or mining. <br />The New Law: <br />Senate Bill (SB) 228 became law on. June 2, 2008. <br />SB 228 revised portions of C.R.S. 34-32-113 pertaining to confidentiality and filing requirements of <br />Prospecting Notices. <br />Certain aspects of Prospecting Notices will no longer be confidential. <br />As revised, C.R.S. 34-32-1.13 (3) now requires, in part, that "All information provided to the Board in a <br />notice of intent to conduct prospecting or a modification of such. a notice is a matter of public record subject <br />to the Opera Records Act, Part 2 of Article 72 of Title 24, C.R.S.. including, in. the case ofa modification, the <br />original notice of intent; except that information relating to the mineral deposit location, sire, or nature and, <br />as determined. by the Board, other inforrnation designated by the operator as proprietary or trade: secrets or <br />that would cause substantial harm. to the competitive position. of the operator shall be protected as <br />confidential in formation by the Board. and shall not be a matter of public record in the absence of a written <br />release from. the operator or until. a finding; by the Board that reclamation. is satisfactory. Such information <br />designated as exempt shall remain confidential until. a final. determination by the Board". If the Board <br />determines that information is not confidential, the Division shall treat it as public information thirty (30) <br />days from the Board's written order. <br />C.R.S. 34-3211.3 (9) nowrequires that the applicant provide the. NOI in an electronic version in addition. to <br />the paper t'or-ii and that DRMS past on the Division.'s website the NOl upon subs-nittal. Specifically, this <br />subsection state;-,: "€. pon th.e submittal of a notice of intent to conduct prospecting or a. modification of such a <br />notice, the parson submitting such. r4.otice or ;,.q.{ydi.frcation shall give an CICetrOnic versrc>n of the notice or <br />......................... _. .. <br />}4 f (I fic of ..... <br />;'V I .t d i ..t:.1 R(,( .!-,Inafion C)F Este. Grand junctiorl • Durango t .:.y:' i. if 11 act of Nimes