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KREMMLINr 'IDDLE PARK MMES ,NRr - ~ 1999 COLORADO _ PR~ea i _.~~~~ Clipping ServicF Denver, Colorado 80204 mimuiuuu~r max report encouraging by Martha Williams Amax officials painted a picture of steady to expanding business for the Henderson mine and mill in a report Tuesday (May 2) to the Grand County Commissioners. "Approximately the last 40 people we hired are temporary," mine manager Bill Hinken said, adding the temporary policy is a reaction to the hiring, laying off, and re-hiring fluctuations Henderson employees have faced the past few years. He said temporary employees get most of the same benefits, but no vacations or retirement plans. Hinken said "because of world-wide construction the molybdenum market looks much more promising. If the oil business would pick up the demand for moly-hardened steel, well casings would pick up" and that would add to the bright outlook for [he steel hardening mineral. Hinken said the Climax mine is molybdenum, and that world moly production is down, in general. At last year's commissioner-Amax update, both the county and the company began to review water rights and land use plans and Bill Dobplan said much of the land discussed then has either been sold, or is in the process. "We've sold several parcels, and will soon have sold all of what we called ranch lands," he said. All the property, except one parcel now being negotiated, has been sold without water rights. The Denver Water Board holds a right of first refusal on all water rights sales, Dobplan said. He added that Amax will retain GMl acres and the water rights to allow for a Lost Creek Reservoir. "We will have to always retain 3000 acre feet owned in the Williams Fork too as backup in severe drought periods," but added "we would gladly work with [he county" to trade any water [hat would no[ harm Henderson contingency needs and could