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FRIEDLOB SANDERSON <br />PAULSON & TOURTILLOTT, LLC <br />190065:11 <br />Attorneys at Law <br />1775 Sherman Street, Twenty-First Floor <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Telephone 303.571.1400 <br />Facsimile 303.595.3970 <br />Carolyn F. Burr <br />e -mail: cfburr @52801aw.com <br />Also Admitted in: <br />Wyoming <br />Bill Killip <br />Mark Davis <br />Colorado Board of Land Commissioners <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 620 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Dear Bill and Mark: <br />February 12, 2003 <br />Washington, D.C. <br />1776 I Street, NW, Suite 900 <br />Washington, D.C. 20006 -3700 <br />Re: Amended and Restated General Mining Lease No. GM 3299: Status Update on <br />Groundwater Development <br />Phoenix, Arizona <br />2375 East Camelback Road, Suite 500 <br />Phoenix, Arizona 85016 <br />California <br />519 Seabright Avenue, Suite 208 <br />Santa Cruz, California 95062 -3482 <br />buernet 5280LAW.com <br />In the past six months, GCC Rio Grande, Inc. has made significant progress in <br />developing the groundwater resources underlying the property subject to GCC Rio Grande's <br />lease with the State Board of Land Commissioners. The purpose of this letter and the attached <br />materials is to summarize for you GCC Rio Grande's water development activities and the <br />resulting data. <br />As you know, in February, 2002, the office of the State Engineer issued three well <br />permits to the State Land Board to withdraw groundwater underlying the lands leased by GCC <br />Rio Grande: two in the Dakota aquifer and one in the Cheyenne aquifer. GCC Rio Grande has <br />drilled a production well at one of the permitted Dakota sights, and has installed a monitoring <br />well at the second permitted Dakota sight. In addition, GCC Rio Grande has drilled two <br />Cheyenne monitoring wells near the Dakota wells in order to perform various tests on the <br />aquifers. Attached hereto is a report prepared by Leonard Rice Engineers, Inc. summarizing the <br />data produced during the drilling of these wells. GCC Rio Grande has ordered that samples from <br />both the Cheyenne and Dakota aquifers be tested for an extensive suite of water quality <br />parameters. Not all of the test results are available, so we will provide a supplemental status <br />update when the water quality information is complete. <br />Consultants for GCC are also performing aquifer modeling analysis in order to determine <br />if additional groundwater resources may be developed on the subject property. It will be <br />provided to you upon completion. This modeling information will assist GCC Rio Grande in <br />determining how best to complete the groundwater development it has begun. To that end, and <br />