PERMFILE57771

• Permit No: M1977170
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 2/21/1992
• From: COLORADO GOLD & SILVER INC
• To: MLRD
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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COLORADO GOLD & SILVER, INC.
Brooks Towers, Suite BK
Feb. 21 , 1992 io2o stn Street
Denver. CO 80202
[phone]
MINED LAND RECLAMATION DIVISION
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, CO 80203
Attn: Mr. Jim Stevens:
Dear Mr. Stevens:
(1) In accordaneece with No. 1.14 of your instructional form, Page 26,
entitled "Process for Determining Necessity for a Reclamation Permit">
we hereby request that you present the following to the Board at its
next week's meeting, requesting a "Declaration Order" that no permit
is needed for the following project, and for the following reasons: -
(2) Legal description and location of the property is shown by the accom-
panying letter and plot layout from the owner, the Butala Construction
Company. The land was conveyed to this Company years ago by the
Baker and Holiday Land Company, and it covers a portion of the prop-
erty once owned by a large Salida smelting company.
(3) The intent of our project is to recover the Gold and any other signi-
ficant precious metals from the approximately ONE PIILLION tons of
smelter slag which was dumped along a ';-mile-long bank just west of
the Butala Company's gravel operation. The smelter itself was located
East of such location and of the gravel operation, but it was removed
years ago.
No excavations will be made since this slag is all dumped on the
surface. The recovery-of-metals procedure will consist simply of
crushing the material to workable size and recovering the metals by
a water-gravity procedure such as is done on a shaker table, except that
we will use a spiral concentrator instead of the table.
We had previously decided to use a process necessitating chemicals,
but with our present process, no chemicals will be used nor necessary.
And when we had thought of using chemicals, a toxicity test was run
for us on the tailings by the Grand Junction Laboratories, which test
met the EP Toxicity limits in existence even at that time. Copy of
this test is attached.
To run this One Million tons of material will take probably 3-4 years.
The quantity of the used material will be approximately the same as
the original material; however, it will be ground down to recoverable
size. Such material will be the same as the original material, minus
only the precious metals.