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INTRODUCTION <br />The Yule Quarry is an underground white marble quarry that has a unique and colorful place in Colorado <br />History. The white marble was discovered in the 1880's and soon became known as one of the finest <br />white marbles in the world. It was selected for the exterior of the Lincoln Memorial in 1916 and the <br />Tomb of the Unknowns in 1936. The quarry closed in 1941 and remained a tourist destination until <br />1990, when it was re- opened by the new Colorado Yule Marble Company (CYMC). During the 1940's <br />through 2007 the hike to the quarry had been a special experience for thousands of tourists each summer. <br />The hike included a walk through a narrow gulch where Yule Creek cascades across brilliant white <br />marble. The trail concluded at the entries to the Yule Quarry where the visitor could look down into the <br />massive underground rooms excavated by early- 20th - century miners. <br />CYMC failed in early 1999 and Sierra Minerals re- opened the quarry under new management and under <br />a new permit (M -1999 -058) issued with the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (now Division <br />of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety) effective on August 20, 1999. The original permit was for 6.7 <br />acres with a bond of $40,000. On April 26, 2004, Sierra Minerals sold its interest to Colorado Stone <br />Quarries, Inc., which is the current operator. The property of the permit area is entirely on patented <br />claims and property owned by OMYA, Inc. Amendment 1 was approved in 2010 to expand the permit <br />to include block stockpiles and sediment control, which increased the permit area to 8.98 acres with 0.92 <br />loadout acres and a bond of $78,221. On May 23, 2012 Technical Revision 1 was approved for the <br />addition on Portal #5 and a bond increase of $82,625. As of January 2013, the 110 permit area consisted <br />of 8.98 acres at the mine and 0.92 acres at the loadout site in the town of Marble. The current <br />reclamation bond is $82,625. The April 2010 Amendment addressed changes to the permit area at both <br />the mine and the load out area, as well as significant changes to the sediment control system. The permit <br />area proposed in the Amendment consisted of 8.98 acres at the mine area and 0.92 acres at the load out, <br />for a new total of 9.90 acres. The increase in the load out area was needed to accommodate storage of <br />unsold marble there. <br />Yule Marble Quarry 2014 3 <br />