2010-07-27_PERMIT FILE - M2009076 ‎(26)‎

• Permit No: M2009076
• IBM Index Class Name: PERMIT FILE
• Doc Date: 7/27/2010
• Doc Name: Adequacy Response- Cover Ltr.
• From: Venture Resources
• To: DRMS
• Email Name: ACS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Venture Resources, Inc.
PO Box 1974 [phone]
Idalro Springs, CO 80452 Fax: [phone]
ventureiresources@ att.net
July 27, 2010
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CO Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety
1313 Sherman St.., Room 215
Denver, CO 80203
Attn: Allen Sorenson
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RE: M72009-076 Application C -::J
Subject: Permit Application Adequacy Review Comments
Dear Mr. Sorenson:
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We are in receipt of your February 16, 2010 letter with a completed Adequacy Review. Below are our comments
answering the items you addressed, in the same enumerated fashion. We have omitted your original comments, for
brevity, and have provided our statements. Any notation of a revised page or Exhibit signals that there is attached
to this letter (2) original, revised documents of the same. A comprehensive list of these attachments is provided at
the end of this letter. Finally, a receipt from the Clear Creek County Recorder's office verifying that this
information has been amended to the public copy is also provided.
1. We have contacted Edward Spence with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Mr. Spence
informed us of an internet based NRCS Web Soil Survey program to help us more thoroughly identify soil
and vegetation classification. He simultaneously guided me through the program to have a look at our
specific site with the program's GIS function. More on this conversation with Mr. Spence will follow in
pertinent sections of this re-submittal.
a. Exhibit B has been revised describing the site more accurately as semi-arid.
b. Exhibit B has been revised with a more accurate NRCS soil description. An NRCS Custom Soil
.Resource Report has been included as a new appendix to Exhibit B.
c. :Exhibit B has been revised with more specific vegetation characterization, including fact sheets
from the NRCS on the species present as an appendix to Exhibit B.
2. Now that DRMS will require Venture Resources to construct a liner (see item #19, f.) under the tailings
impoundment we do not see the need to seek permit modification to accept imported mill feed, of similar
geology and mineralogy, from sources outside this affected area. Venture Resources will, independently,
do it's own waste characterization and keep accounting of any imported mill feed. Exhibit C has been
amended to reflect this change.
3. In Item #1 above we described a conversation with Edward Spence with the NRCS. I mentioned to him
that the DRMS desires us to salvage topsoil for reclamation. Mr. Spence's first reaction when seeing the
zoomed-in aerial photograph of the site was that it is likely accurate that my initial assertion of 0-2" of
salvageable topsoil was plausible. He could readily see from the topography, vegetation, and existing
waste dumps that my analysis was possibly accurate, without having inspected the site himself.
Considering this sparse topsoil (and virtually no accumulation of true A horizon topsoil) combined with
over 300/0 of the area covered with existing waste rock, Venture Resources is going to do our best in
• -salvaging any native nuneial. Cathedral soil for reclamation. Exhibit C and D have been amended to
reflect this change.
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