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TRAPPER MINING INC. November 22, 2006 Ms. Janet H. Binns z; P-- ~-, T- q1 / Environmental Protection Specialist II ~=~- - ' - I V Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety ~,Ip~J ~ 7 2006 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 Div s c ~ ~* Reclamation, Ni„~,ng and Safety , Deaz Ms. Binns: I am writing in response to your letter of October 30, 2006 in which you request information concerning the landslide experienced on October 8, 2006 in the azea referred to as the East Panel Area of the Trapper Mine. We aze happy to provide you the information requested. Some of it is readily available, and we can get it to you quickly. Some requires assembly and may take a little longer. And some, particulazly your Item No. 1 requires analysis and creation, and will take longer. I wanted to go through your letter item by item and give you our preliminary assessment of the time it will take to respond, and the nature and plan of response. For your convenience, I am setting forth your specific request, followed by our response and wmments. We, of course, invite your comments and reaction. I also wanted to invite you and members of your team to come up to the mine and spend a day viewing the site and discussing matters with us. If this sounds appropriate to you, please call me and we can make arrangements. If you prefer, we could travel to Denver to meet with you. Before responding to your letter in detail, we want to assure you at the outset that Trapper intends to comply fully with its reclamation obligations with respect to the azea affected by the landslide. Of that you can have no doubt. We would be happy to discuss this topic with you when we meet with you at the mine or in Denver. 1. Please provide the Division with a forensic geotechnical and engineering analysis that chazacterizes the landslide and its causes. In this analysis, please provide and evaluate the following: RESPONSE: We are working on an analysis such as you request. Obvious-y, it will take some time to complete. Moreover, we are unsure at this point whether a definitive characterization of the landslide and its causes is possible to a reasonable degree of certainty. We are working diligently, however, to conduct the best analysis we can, as it is very significant for our own purposes. We are doing our analysis in two phases. Phase I should be completed within three to four weeks. We will provide it to you when we have completed it. Phase II will be completed in three to four months. We will also provide this to you when it is completed. I will address each of your bullet points separately, with an indication of within which Phase of our report it will be contained. • Blasting records from all blasts conducted at the Trapper Mine from September 24, 2006 to October 9, 2006. The geotechnical and engineering analysis should include P.O. Box 187 Craig, Colorado 81626 (970) 824-4401