Aurcana Silver Corp V.AUN.H

Aunff

[Handymanjeep]

I just visited Ouray on June 20th with the specific intent on finding local information about the mine. I found a women, throught the visitor center, who was raised in Ouray and has lived there for nealy 70 years. Her family has property in Nebaraska and Ouray and she has spent half the year in Ouray and half in Nebraska all her life. She has been to the mine on several occasions and first hand seen the 3 foot high stack of enivronmental and other paperwork the mine has filed with government.  She told me all about the minging equipment inside the mountain. Currently there is no one working on the mine except an environmental officer and possibly a maintenance person. She said the mine was closed not  by Aurcana (the mine is located far up Camp Mine Rd accessible by an easy 4 wheel drive road but you can't get to it because of the private property signage and all the land around it is also loaded with no trespassing signs-I saw it personally) but by the federal government. She also said the rock fall destroyed far more of the elevator shaft and equipment than the company has let on. She said all the miners have moved on to Nevada. She personally knows the environmental officer, a very nice man she said, but he gives out very little information except the environmental assessment is ongoing. No one who works there now or who has worked there in the past has said much about the rock fall other than it was bad and they were surprised non one died. I also visited the local mine museum where I found a book of the mine, "The Great Revenu and Surrounding Mines" by Doris H. Gregory, $19.99) and also was put in touch with a local historian  who knows more about the mine than anyone else, by phone, who said the mine  rock fall much bigger than the "Canadians" have let on. He also said his information is first hand by a miner but unverifiable because he could not corraborate it with anyon else so he said it was only "rumor". That is what I found out, just letting everyone know.