Black Range Minerals Water Monitoring & Water Rights Within Hansen Uranium Deposit Colorado

I just want to nip the current untruths in recent media reports from the TAC, whereby this organization are suggesting that no Water monitoring procedures has taken place within the confides of the Hansen Deposit I can confide this is 100% not correct, as no doubt all current researched BLR holders would or should already know !

 Monitoring wells with Hansen  

An orange case covers a monitoring well installed downstream from the Hansen uranium deposit to keep tabs on minerals in groundwater. Black Range Minerals installed numerous monitoring wells after acquiring the privately owned mineral rights to the Hansen and other nearby uranium deposits. 

Black Range Minerals are at this very moment in the process of installation of five new water monitoring wells immediately adjacent to the Project’s 39.4 million pound Hansen Uranium Deposit 

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ASX Release 2 October 2013DRILLING PROGRAM COMMENCES AT THE HANSEN URANIUM DEPOSIT 

 Baseline environmental data will be collected from all of these new wells and integrated with, and be complementary to, data from the Company's ongoing surface and ground-water monitoring programs 

In My Opinion Only*Word of caution is don't believe all the content that these Environmental activists circulate.. 



 Water Rights

“The North Spring Ditch water rights were changed in 1980, rendering any irrigation use since that date unusable for calculating historic consumptive use for a subsequent change of use.” Court documents show that the 1980 change of use involved the transfer of irrigation water rights from Taylor Ranch to Cyprus Mine, which changed the use of that water to mining. Alter said Cyprus Mines sold those water rights back to the Taylors in 1993, and in 2012 the Taylors filed a case in Division 2 Water Court, to “confirm” their rights.

Alter said TAC members believe the Taylors filed the case to determine how much water they can sell to Black Range Minerals for proposed mining operations, prompting TAC to enter the case as an objector.
Given: (1) the significance of historical consumptive use in determining the amount of water Black Range could acquire and
 
(2) the SWSP ruling rendering “irrigation use since (1980) unusable for calculating historic consumptive use,” Alter said he believes Black Range has insufficient water for mining for underground borehole mining. He cited estimates that the mining process could require as much as 50,000 gallons of water per hour.

http://coyotegulch.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/fremont-county-tallahassee-area-residents-are-now-1000-strong-in-opposition-to-black-ranges-uranium-operation/