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ALBERT FRET & SONS March 11, 2009 Mr. Tony Waldron Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety Minerals Section 1313 Sherman Street Suite 215 Denver, Colorado 80203-2273 Dear Mr. Waldron: Re: Annual Report, Worthing Pit M.L.R.B. Permit No. M-77-526 P.O. BOX 700 HENDERSON, CO 80640 (303) 289-1837 (303) 289-2865 FAX DI?1i i 1. :' r Our files indicate that the anniversary date for this permit is March 28, 2009. The effective date of all information in this report is March 4, 2009. Please refer to the attached Annual Report Map for the location of areas discussed in this report. This pit HAS NOT been granted a Temporary Cessation and it HAS operated more than 180 days this year. This permit was amended in 2006 to add construction of a slurry wall to the permit and the current bond is $494,300.00. We will deal specifically with each of the Annual Report requirements as outlined in Rule 1.15 of the Rules and Regulations. (1) We continued to remove material stockpiled in previous years and mine material from the bottom of the northern lake areas. No new areas we disturbed. (2) Backfilling has continued on the southern mined area where we moved the tailing pond (10.11 acres ±). We also began back- filled an area in the northeast corner of the southern area to its final grade (2.08 acres). Eventually the remaining 6.62 acres will be backfilled as approved. Two area on north area have been backfilled. The eastern part of the tailing pond has been filled to the same level as the residential area (4.24 ac.) and slope backfilling began in the north part of the mining area (1.31 ac.). Since most of the mining area is dewatered the lake now covers 32.84 acres ± of the disturbed area. (3) We will continue to mine in the northeast lake area and once the material is gone we will move to the southern most end of the permit area just north of the slurry wall and begin mining to the north (13.54 ac.).