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STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman St., Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />?hone: (303) 866-3567 <br />FAX: (303) 832.8106 <br />DATE: October 28, 2009 <br />TO: Wally Erickson <br />FROM: Allen Sorenson <br />RE: Third Review of Access Road Construction, Wildcat Mining Corporation, <br />Idaho Mill, Amendment AM-01, File No. M-2006-069 <br />COLORADO <br />D I VI S ION OF <br />RECLAMATION <br />MINING <br />SAFETY <br />The Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (DRMS) engineering staff has reviewed the information on <br />the new access road contained in the Idaho Mill permit application file and inspected the road on May 15, <br />2009. DRMS has further reviewed the "As-Build Report" for the road prepared by Sakura Engineering and <br />dated July 10, 2009 and met with Wildcat Mining and their engineering consultants by telephone on June 23, <br />2009. Mike Clements, Wildcat Mining, Paul Martin, Sakura Engineering, and Kim Preston, Terracon <br />participated in the telephone meeting. On August 2, 2009 DRMS issued a memo listing a number of issues <br />remaining to be addressed before the road could be included as an approved component of the proposed <br />mining and reclamation plans. On October 20 and 21, 2009, Wildcat Mining submitted additional <br />information, some of which is intended to address the issues raised in the DRMS August 2, 2009 memo. <br />Following is the review of the information provided. <br />The "As-Build Report" contains a proposal to vegetate slopes in the fall of 2009 "with a seed impregnated <br />aspen shavings Propex Landlok 450." DRMS August 2, 2009 memo required the reference to "seed <br />impregnated aspen shavings" be explained. An explanation has not been provided. DRMS August 2, 2009 <br />memo stated that to gain approval to use turf reinforcement mats, Wildcat must provided a plan showing <br />where the turf reinforcement mats will be applied, and describing surface preparation and seeding that will <br />precede application. These have not been provided. <br />The DRMS road review memo dated June 5, 2009 states that the road is in cut from approximately station <br />1+50 to 2+00. The cut in this stretch forms a slot through which the road passes. The June 5, 2009 memo <br />states that Wildcat Mining must provide a plan to include laying back and vegetating the cuts in sand and <br />gravel with cobble along both sides of this stretch of the road. DBMS August 2, 2009 memo reiterated this <br />requirement. No such plan has been provided. <br />DRMS August 2, 2009 memo required Wildcat Mining state definitively when and for how long their <br />consulting geotechnical engineer Mr. Paul Martin was on-site and relate that to the days and hours the <br />construction crew was building the road. DRMS August 2, 2009 memo required Wildcat Mining to provide <br />any photographs of road construction that are available. DBMS August 2, 2009 memo required Wildcat <br />Mining to provide a definitive statement as to whether or not Mr. Martin made sufficient observations and <br />Office of Office of <br />Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines