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`~ ~ Unite~tates Department of the~terior n BUREAU OF LAND hLa7JAGEhfENF ~ Glenwood Springs,Resource Area SOii29 Highway 6 and 21 P.O. Box 1009 Glem.ood Springs, Colorado 81602 February 25, 1954 Mr. Robert Delaney, Executive Vice President and General Counsel Mid-Continent Resources, Inc. P. O. Drarer 790 Glenvood Springs, Colorado 81602 Dear Mr. Delaney: 111 Illllllllllll III 999 is wu wu ro 3604 n - 6801 Thank you for your letter of February 1, 1994, iniorwing us of your location of placer ^ining claiwe on Tlid-Continent's Glenrood Springs Liaeetone quarry. Since the relocation of claims on the quarry site indicates your intent to tenet operations at the site, you rill need to be stare of constraints that rill De inposed before operations can resuae. The Bureau of Land ffanagewent, effective October 21, 1993, established a cowwunity pit, under the 43 CFR 3600 regulations, encowpassing the Sollorinq lands: T. 5 S. , R. 89 Y. , 6th P. M. Sec. 36: Lots 3, 4, NXSE%, SNfiSES, M%SE%SEff encowpassing 210 acres, ^ore or leas. (- The above described lands cover the existing peraitted disturbance area .at the quarry, and overlap your recently Siled Calcite Liaeetone Placer claims as to the 140 acres in the SE% of Sec. 36. The cawwunity pit does not •ithdrav the lands frog location; horever, the coawunity pit constitutes a superior right to rewove aaterial as against any subsequent claim or entry of the land (43 CFR 3604.11b)/. It ie the current policy of the Bureau to actively encourage and sake possible the private developwent of mineral resources on public dowain lands. The priaary purpose of this office in establishing a cowwunity pit on the quarry Bite ras to protect the deposit Stow possible epeculativ location activity end/or winerale aaterial trespass. It is not the intention of thi• ottice !o forbid or unreasonably restrict tRe extraction of Locatable grade liweetone to be warketed for qualifying aarketa. To that end, re are •illing to •llor liweetone •ining to proceed rithin the coawunity pit boundary subject to certain restrictions. These restrictions are discussed belor. The abandonment of the previous •ining claiwe (Lynx Nos. 3, 4,S,i 6 and Lian Nos. 2, 3, i 4>, under rhich operations rere forwerly conducted, serves as an abandonment of any title or legal interest in the locatable wineral estate. As of September 1, 1993, any right that nay have been established by the previous claimant, lessee, or operator tv the liweetone rasterock ras lost to