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EXHIBIT B - SITE DESCRIPTION <br />1. Location and General Land Use Information <br />The Yule Quarry is located south of Marble, CO a distance of 2.6 miles. <br />The affected land (-5.50 acres) to be encompassed in this amendment is located in the following: <br />• Two patented federal mining claims, one lode and one placer <br />• 0.919 acres in the Historic Mill Site leased from the Town of Marble <br />The location of the lands to be added at the quarry site is shown on Maps C -2 and C -3. <br />Prior to disturbance, the area consisted of high mountain forest on steep slopes at an elevation of 9300 <br />feet. Most of the current estimated disturbed area of 4.04 acres at the mine was historically disturbed <br />well before the initiation of reclamation laws in 1977. <br />2. Site Geolozv <br />The marble at Yule Quarry is an exceptionally high quality ( >99% calcite) metamorphic deposit of the <br />Leadville Limestone of the Mississippi Age. The calcium carbonate was formed as a result of bone <br />accumulation of animals swimming in a specific area of the inland sea that was present in Central <br />Colorado. Later altered by contact metamorphism during the Tertiary period, the white marble occurs as <br />a massive bed ( >200 feet thick) that outcrops along the Yule Creek. The marble formation is located <br />below the Pennsylvanian Molas Formation and above the Dyer Dolomite Member.1 <br />Colorado Yule Marble —Building Stone of the Lincoln Memorial U.S. Geological. Survey Bulletin #2162, c.1998 <br />Yule Quarry January 2014 10 <br />