2024-10-31_PERMIT FILE - M2024046

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RECEIVED Compromise Mine- File No. M-2024-046: OCT 31 2024 Notice of Incomplete- Response to item #r°i°rado nDing on of Reclamation, p p PJ�inuig and Safety 1. The application submitted is for a 110(2)permit.but the commodities proposed to be mined (Silver, Lead, Zinc.Gold and mineral specimens)arc more typically associated with a Designated Mining Operation(DMO),as defined by Rule 1.1(19).owing to the inherent toxicity of these materials. A DMO of this scale(affecting less than 10 acres)would require a 110(d)permit. The proposed mining operation is primarily after silver ore and silver mineral specimens and does not include any gold. Lead and Zinc are by products of the silver ore and will not be processed at the proposed permit area but off site at an appropriate facility only when high grade ore is encountered. Please demonstrate,with reference to Rule 1.1(19)(f)(1),why the proposed operation does not"have a potential to produce acid or toxic mine drainage in quantities sufficient to adversely affect any person,property or the environment". (f) (1) Metal mining operations, permitted under Section 34-32-110, C.R.S. 1984, as amended, which do not use or store designated chemicals, shall be excepted from the requirements applicable to Designated Mining Operations, unless they have a potential to produce acid or toxic mine drainage in quantities sufficient to adversely affect any person, property or the environment. It shall be the burden of the Operator or Applicant to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Office that such potential does not exist. The Proposed Mining Operation does not include the storage or use of any chemicals and should be exempt from being a Designated Mining Operation. The Existing Mining Operations under Prospecting permit P1992029 and Proposed Mining Operations do not produce any mine drainage nor does the Ore body produce any acid or toxic drainage. "Acid and Toxic Producing Materials"means natural or reworked earth materials having acid or toxic chemical and physical characteristics that, under mining or post-mining conditions of drainage, exposure, or other processes, produce materials which contain detrimental amounts of chemical constituents such as acids, bases, or metaic compounds. The Proposed Mining Operation will be extracting the Red Cliff Dolomite member of the Mississippian Leadville Limestone that contains silver deposits-neither the Dolomite or Limestone materials contain any acid or toxic chemicals. No materials will be stockpiled or left above ground during mining or post mining.