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~~ III IIIIIIIIIIIII III STATE ~ COLORADO DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY Depanmem of Nawral Resources 131 }Sherman Sl., Room 21 5 Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone: (3031 866-3567 FA%: 13071 832-8106 April 23, 1998 DI=NNER OFFICE PUBLIC FILE COPY FILE: ~ -~ I - o i~I SITE:1!i~st S„, ~FN.Q~ I~~ DEPARTtv1ENT OF NATURAL RESOURC~,s Rov Romer Roger Smith ~ CEIVED Goremor lames S Lochhead International Iliamum (IJSA) Ine. Eiecutive Dueclor H.C. 64 A('K ~ i 1998 brit hael B. Long Box 153 Division Director 2555 No. Highway 89A Division of Minerals ~ Geob9Y Fredonia AZ 86022 Re: West Sunday Mine, Permit M-81-021, Updated Permit Area Map Dear Mr. Smith, I received the updated permit area map on April 18, 1998, which I had required to be submitted to abate a problem (PB) which I noted during my July 10, 1997, inspection. This map was to have been received by October 31, 1997, a date we had agreed on. You had mentioned that this map had already been submitted, but there is no evidence of its receipt in either of the Division's offices. I have had a chance to review the map, and have a few comments about it. I have included a copy of this newly submitted map, and have made some notes on it, some of which will pertain to the following items 1. The five-sided area which is delineated, though it does completely encompass the surface disturbance present at the portal area, does not comform to the boundary that appears on all of the other permit area maps in this file. I have enclosed a copy of the new map, and have superimposed the original permit boundaries in green. The polygon on the new map is about 13.1 acres. On the old maps the portal area is 9.95 acres, with sides oriented along the axis of the 2700-foot decline drift toward the Beebee claims. 2. Portions of the azea delineated by the new boundaries are lands for which we have no evidence of the operator's right of entr,~, and which have not been approved for mining disturbance and reclamation. (The waste rock on the east end, for example, appears to have crossed the thalweg of the ephemeral drainage by 110 feet.) Other delineated lands on the new map appear to exclude areas which have previously been approved for mining disturbance and reclamation. In summary, it appears as if you are proposing an acreage reduction plus an amendment to add new land.