Legal Opinion
Brubaker v. Board of County Commissioners
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided September 13, 1982No. 81SA186PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOHR, Justice.
The appellants, Earl J. Brubaker, Rexford L. Mitchell and Valeo, Inc., are holders of unpatented mining claims located on federal land in Teller and El Paso Counties. The appellants sought to conduct limited test drilling on the site of these claims for the purpose of obtaining mineral samples that would be used to determine whether they had made a qualifying discovery of valuable mineral deposits under federal mining law. After receiving the necessary federal approvals for this testing, the appellants applied to El Paso County for a special use permit authorizing the proposed…
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