2011-09-08_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - P2011025

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In Reply Refer to: 3809.301 (CO -150) COC -75082 SEP - 7 2011 CERTIFIED MAIL — Return Receipt Requested — 7010 2780 0000 3930 3959 SEP 12 2011 Division of Reclamation, a Mining y Michael Leidich Lynx -Royal JV LLC 813 14 St., Suite A Golden, CO 80401 Dear Mr. Leidich: United States Department of the Interior BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT Uncompahgre Field Office 2465 South Townsend Avenue Montrose, Colorado 81401 www.co.blm.gov 2Ati — 0 2,x' gLit4 A6'o oVA-L TAKE PRIDE 'NAM ERICA Thank you for the mining notice (BLM casefile number COC — 75082, CDRMS file number P -2011 -025) to conduct exploration drilling operations in the Wray Mesa Project Area located in portions of T47N, R18W, Section 25, NMPM, as required by the Surface Management Regulations (43 CFR 3809). We conducted a site visit with you on August 30, 2011, to review your proposal. The notice is accepted and you may begin operations with the following conditions: o Approval is given for the 24 drill site locations inspected on August 30, 2011. If other locations in this area are proposed for drilling, the notice must be modified and field checked by BLM prior to drilling. o Only existing roads or old drill roads and minor cross - country travel as proposed in your notice submission and field checked on August 30, 2011, will be used; no new access will be constructed. o If subsurface cultural or paleontological resources are unearthed during operations, activity in the vicinity of the cultural /paleontological resource will cease and a BLM representative will be notified immediately. Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.4, the holder of this authorization must notify the authorized officer, by telephone, with written confirmation, immediately upon the discovery of human remains, funerary items, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony. Further, the operator must stop activities in the vicinity of the discovery and protect it for 30 days or until notified to proceed by the Authorized Officer. o The operator is responsible for informing all persons assoc. iated with this project that they will be subject to prosecution for knowingly disturbing Native American Indian shrines, historic and prehistoric archaeology sites, or for collecting artifacts of any kind, including historic items and/or arrowheads and pottery fragments from Federal lands.