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• IIIIIIIII'lII'lllll • RECEIVED <br />sss <br />MI VIDA ENTERPRISES SEP D 4 1997 <br />P.O. Box 1523 Division of Minerals ,~ ~uai4at <br />Longmont, Colorado 80502 <br />(303) 651-2985 <br />Mr. Carl Mount September 2, 1997 <br />Division of Minerals and Geology <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Dear Mr. Mount, <br />The purpose of this letter is to inform you that the Hazel A mine edit was closed with a <br />concrete and cinder block bulkhead on Saturday, August 30, 1997, by a crew of workers under <br />the direct supervision of David Tipton. <br />As you and your staff are aware, the Hazel A mine workings are the only water <br />reservoir available for decanting excess water from the Gold Hill Mill's tailings pond. The <br />Hazel A mine is supposed to be maintained and monitored so that the mine workings are kept <br />in a state of readiness to receive any sudden storm water that would otherwise overflow the <br />pond's tailings retention dam. Without the Hazel A decant and water storage system in <br />working order, the Gold Hill Mill's tailings pond is in serious jeopardy of overflowing its <br />tailings retention dam. In the likely event that this occurs, thousands of tons of mill tailings <br />and hundreds of thousands of gallons of waste water would be deposited in the Cash Gulch <br />drainage, which empties into Gold Run and Four Mile Creek. <br />All of the property located immediately below the Gold Hill Mill belongs to Mi Vida <br />Enterprises. Mi Vida Enterprises also owns the Hazel A mine edit. Although Mi Vida <br />Enterprises granted Colina Oro Molina, Inc. the right to enter onto Mi Vida Enterprises' <br />property for the purpose of conducting milling operations under a Milling Contract dated <br />Februazy 1991, it did not authorize COM, Inc. or its successors in interest to render unusable <br />the valuable Hazel A mine workings. <br />The Gold Hill Mill permit is still held in the name of COM, Inc., but I believe that title <br />to the mill property passed to the Franklin Consolidated Mining Company on July 3, 1996, in <br />a transaction that supposedly cost Franklin $2,500,000. I have personally informed Curtis <br />Bernhardt, Earl Madsen, John Miner and David Tipton on numerous, separate occasions that <br />Mi Vida Enterprises would not grant COM, Inc. or its successor, Franklin Consolidated, the <br />right to plug and abandon the Hazel A mine workings. I know that Allen Sorenson and Gary <br />Curtis are both aware of Mi Vida Enterprises' firm position in regard to this matter. <br />I am making an urgent request that the Division of Minerals and Geology immediately <br />enter onto Mi Vida Enterprises' property for the purpose of ascertaining the current status of <br />the Hazel A bulkhead and the ability of the operators of the Gold Hill Mill to monitor and <br />maintain the Hazel A mine as an emergency excess water storage reservoir for the mill's <br />tailings pond. Please contact me as soon as possible to arrange for an inspection of the Hazel <br />A mine edit. <br />Very truly yours, <br />~o~ ,pct sr~r.,.. <br />Mark A. Steen <br />For: Mi Vida Enterprise <br />