North Tintic Public Open House - March 19th

[Mike]

DOGM PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE - North Tintic District
Utah Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program

This is another chance to make a difference!

The Utah DOGM is hosting an Open House on Thursday, March 19th, 2009 from 4-7pm, to collect public interest on the closures of 220 abandoned mines in the North Tintic Mountains between Eureka in the south and Highway 73 in the north. Mojave Underground Inc. would like to invite every member of Mojave Underground, its associates, and friends, to attend this meeting.

This is a chance for the public (YOU!) to voice their concerns for the eradication of mining history. The more people we are able to get involved in this, the more successful we will be.

Information concerning the meeting can be found in the following documents:

http://www.mojaveunderground.com/media/PubMtgInviteLetGeneralCapps.pdf

http://www.mojaveunderground.com/media/NorthTintic_PublicMtngFlyer.pdf

We look forward to seeing everybody there.

[one_bad_rover]

Mike, is this the same area you guys were working on a few months ago?

[rhartill]

Location of North Tintic

Its a little further to the north of the area covered in the Mammoth reclamation. Includes the ghost town of Scranton, and mines directly N and slightly W of Eureka townsite, then the reclamation area travels N to Fairfield--its a large area.

A project map can be downloaded here:

https://fs.ogm.utah.gov/pub/MINES/AMR/A049/903/projectarea.pdf

[ExpUt]

Going to try and make this but its not looking good

[one_bad_rover]

whew.. thats a lot of ground to get covered... Will be there with what info I can dig up. So what happened on the Mammoth rec. project? Did it run through, are they done, did they take anything into account and leave any of the sites?? LMK, here or email. Thanks!!!

[Mike]

The last I heard on the Mammoth Project was that contractor x took the project for a bid way under what the DOGM was asking. Initially, work was supposed to be done last summer. Rumors have it was pushed to this summer, but we are not sure.


This area is pretty huge. I have not personally visited any of the mines listed in this area.

[rhartill]

Anyone want to meet beforehand somewhere?

Who all is going and does anyone want to meet beforehand to discuss what we will see/say. These openhouses are notoriously unattended and it is very casual. They may or may not have a Powerpoint presentation running in an endless loop, and they'll have some notebooks spread out on tables, and they'll try to answer whatever questions you can muster, and then they'll brag to OSM that they have facilitated "public input.". I'll bring a camera with macro and hope to take as many pictures/notes that DOGM will let me as to their intentions in the area. I'll have my own notebook which I may or may not share with them, outlining which mines I think may qualify for NRHP status...

I'll try to leave early from work in order to be there when it starts and am open to meeting beforehand....

[Mike]

I would like to meet with you beforehand, Russ. I'm pressed for time now, but lets meet at, say, 3:30pm? Suggest a place to meet and I'll be there.

[trentaiken]

Sorry I missed it, I had Jury Duty, keep posting them however, I will try to attend if I can.