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~(/) ~ l C~ q Z .p K ,~ Page 1 of 3 <br />~M©r ,~I <br />Mount, Carl <br />From: Jim VanElla [gold aeth@hotmail.com] <br />Sent: Sunday, Janua (ry 08, 2006 12:47 PM <br />To: dreimer@www.chaffeecounty.org; tglenn@chaffeecounty.org; josborne@chaffee.org; <br />jmallett@chaffee.org <br />Cc: kleinz@chaffee.org; bruce.humphries@state.co.us; carl.mount@state.co.us; gold@iwi.com <br />Mr. Reimer, <br />Thanks for your quick response. In this letter I am going to attempt to answer all of your <br />questions as best as I can and make statements about some of our activities more clear. The <br />6 issues I would like to answer in 10 words or less but the nature of the questions are very <br />complicated and the explanations are very difficult for someone to explain to someone who <br />has never seen the property. My offer to you after reading this and you still have difficulty <br />understanding it, you are more than welcome to visit our property the first of July when we <br />can get there after planting season is over in Indiana. <br />First I must make you understand that we are not a mining company. We are two people <br />who enjoy spending the hot summer in the mountains. Again I will tell you that we have a <br />mining permit because at the time we applied for a reclamation permit there wasn't one and <br />we had to get a mining permit. This was the state of Colorado's policy. We are a retired <br />farm family from Indiana. I have a small backhoe we transport back and forth to Indiana to <br />use on our farm back there. <br />When we came to Colorado we knew nothing about mining or the high country. We didn't <br />know in 1992 that a 3 year permit was only going to be a 9 month of available total work <br />time at 12,200 feet elevation 90 days each year. As you know you can't improve the land <br />until it thaws out in the spring and then it freezes in the fall and that is very early. So <br />between the state agencies and county what we do has been blown so far out of proportion, <br />we call it our government job because it is anon-profit job that there is no income. It takes <br />all of our Social Security checks every month to keep up with the expenses. <br />No.2 on your list of 6: One of the state requirements is that the operator/land owner files an <br />assessment letter each year to the DMG with a history of the previous year activities done on <br />a mining permit along with a check for $225.00. Each year in my assessment letter I remind <br />them that we are only a recreational prospector and our land disturbance has been a small <br />amount of cubic yards each season all previously disturbed and today the year 2006 we are <br />still in the first acre that we started in 1992. At total of 13 years! <br />The 3 acres that is our permitted area is a pre disturbed area that was mined back in the <br />1940"s and the high bank Carl Mount is talking about is a 30 foot south east wall of a pit <br />that was dug in the 40's. The two drag lines still sit in the pit. We asked a mining engineer <br />from the Black Cloud Mine when they were still in operation to come and see if he could <br />give us a estimate on how much material is missing from our pit and he stated it would have <br />to be near 3 million tons. So let's call it what it is, a hole with 3 walls. From the bottom of <br />1/9/2006 <br />