The owner of the San Juan Mining Corporation who is seeking to reopen a gold mine north of Nevada City is attempting to clarify what he believes are mischaracterizations of widespread well failures that occurred in the mid-1990s. In 1995, Siskon Gold Corporation mined for gold on the 1,400-acre parcel near the town of North Bloomfield, when drillers punctured a vertical fault full of highly pressurized water. This caused mine operators to pump water at higher rates from the mine, which impacted 14 wells in proximity to the operation. One of the wells belonged to Grizzly Hill School, which has …