2011-06-07_PERMIT FILE - M2011015

• Permit No: M2011015
• IBM Index Class Name: PERMIT FILE
• Doc Date: 6/7/2011
• Doc Name: Adequacy Review #2
• From: DRMS
• To: Azurite, Inc.
• Email Name: JLE
• Email Name: AJW
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
COLORADO
Denver, Colorado 80203 D IV I S I ON OF
Phone: [phone] RECLAMATION
FAX: [phone] MINING

SAFETY
June 7, 2011
John W. Hickenlooper
Ken Klco Governor
Azurite, Inc. Mike King
P.O. Box 338
Executive Director
Cotopaxi, Colorado 81223 Loretta E. Pineda
Director
RE: Silver Cliff Pit; M-2011-015,112c Application Adequacy Review #2
Dear Mr. Klco,
The Division received your response to the first adequacy review on June 6, 2011. The application decision date has been
extended to June 20th, 2011. Several other issues will need to addressed prior to the decision date. If you need additional
time to address the following concerns, it will be your responsibility to request and extension of the decision date. If there
are outstanding issues when the decision date arrives and no extension has been requested, the Division will deny the
application.
6.4.3 EXHIBIT C - Pre-mining and Mining Plan Map(s) of Affected Lands
1.) In regards to item 43 of the Division's first adequacy review, your response indicated four phases of the operation have
been delineated on the corrected Exhibit C map. However, only phase 1 and 2 are written on the map. Please label the
remaining phases and delineate the area for each phase on the map.
6.4.4 EXHIBIT D - Mining Plan
2.) If a noxious weed control and monitoring plan cannot be provided prior to the decision date, the Division will add a
stipulation to the approval of the permit. The stipulation will require that mining cannot begin until a Technical Revision
including a weed control and monitoring plan has been submitted by the Operator and approved by the Division. Please
keep in mind once the application is approved, the permit will not be issued until the financial warranty has been
submitted by the operator and approved by the Division. The Operator will not be able to revise the mining plan until the
permit has been issued for the site.
3.) In regards to the access road, the Division will hold a financial warranty to reclaim the road in the unlikely event the
bond is forfeited and the landowners want the road reclaimed.
6.4.7 EXHIBIT G - Water Information
4.) In response to item #25 and the need for a Temporary Substitute Water Supply Plan (TSWSP); if impounded storm
water is allowed to percolate into the surface within 72 hours after a storm event, a TSWSP will not be necessary.
6.4.12 EXHIBIT L - Reclamation Costs
5.) Item #9 indicates the highwall could be 800 feet long during the operation, however items #16 and #28 assume the
highwall length will only be 200 feet long. For the financial warranty calculation, for a single mining phase what will be
the maximum length of the highwall?
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