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iii iiiiiiiiiiiii iii March 3, 1998 RECEIVED MAR 0 6 1999 Mr. Jim Dlllle Dlvisi000fMinerals 8 Geology Division of Minerals and Geology 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 Subject: Battle Mountain Resources, Inc. DMG Permit No. M-88-1 12 Quarterly, Monthly and Bi-weekly Sampling Dear Mr. Dillies All required sampling was completed during the month of February. Analyses that have been received leave been forwarded io you. Field and rinse blanks were collected as pars of the QA/QC. the Surface water stations RS-4 and RS-6 were inspected and found to be dry. When we checked the piezometers on the main embankment of the tailings impoundment oii March 02, 1998 the piezometers were dry or contained well below 12 inches of water. The two new west pit piezometers were measured for depth to water on March 02, 1998 with the following result: BF-Iwas 13.32ff and BF-2 was 17.OSft. The underdiain was of approximately 32 gpm and the leak detection was frozen in February and we were unable to sample fluids or determine volume. A quarterly sample was collected from M-14 monitor well on 1-22-98. The result of this sample showed a dissolved iron level of O.S69. Iron in this well is not io exceed 0.30. The well was re sampled on 2-1 I-98. The result of this sample showed the dissolved iron level down to 0.012. Field and Rinse blanks that were completed on 1-14-98 and 2-11-98 showed traces of copper and zinc. In an effort to identify the source of the metal contamination we had Sangre De Cristo lob analyze out commercial distilled water for metals. This is the same distilled water we used to clean equipment for collection of the Rinse blanks that showed the copper and zinc contamination. This is also the same distilled water used in the Field blank. The Sangre De Cristo analytical results are enclosed and show the commercial distilled water that we used was contaminated with copper and zinc. To rectify this we have obtained o quantity of the commercial distilled water used by the lob. Prior to our using it for cleaning our equipment it will be sampled by SDC lab to insure no containinales exist. This should solve our contamination problem.