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The site is currently accessed from the town of Cripple Creek via McKinney Street, <br /> traveling up a gravel road along the west side of Mineral Hill and onto the property. A <br /> security gate is located along that road at the end of McKinney Street, a distance of 0.9 <br /> miles from the permit area. The roadbed is of sufficient width for vehicle travel and will <br /> not require any significant improvements. Access roads within the permit area will <br /> require inspection and possible minor modification to meet the safety requirements <br /> imposed by the Federal Mining Safety and Health Administration(MSHA). No new <br /> roads are anticipated. The existing roads have graded surfaces and are mostly guttered <br /> and drained, as applicable, per standard engineering practice. The roads are located high <br /> on hillsides and there are no perennial or ephemeral streams that cross the road, so no fills <br /> or diversions are necessary or appropriate. Thus, there are no instabilities, erosion rills or <br /> ditches, or land wasting issues existing on the site. As the disturbance is so small, the <br /> transition to future land use, assuming that it does not remain mining, will be quite easy. <br /> (1)(m) Since the site is still a prospect, the nature of the ores that might be found on the site, and <br /> the testing of those ores that will be found is still some time away. The method of <br /> recovery cannot be determined with any accuracy until additional prospecting and testing <br /> have been performed. Sometimes permitting issues move ahead of technical reality. At <br /> this time, it is not known whether treatment is practical or possible within the permit area <br /> or for that matter,practical anywhere. Once more information has been collected, a plan <br /> can be developed, and that plan will be shared with DRMS personnel. The normal <br /> prospecting and future mining processes are anticipated to include, and require,reduction <br /> of material sizes from solid rock by initial blasting followed by additional mechanical <br /> size reduction to allow sorting, sampling, and production testing of materials. The <br /> mechanical reduction area might be located underground or possibly above-ground. If the <br /> size reduction takes place on the surface, the location will likely be either immediately <br /> west of the adit, or in the area labeled Reduction/Doghouse as shown on Exhibit Map E. <br /> Equipment required will be chosen once more is known about the properties of the <br /> materials that will require size reduction. Equipment will likely either be powered by <br /> petroleum based fuels or electricity. <br /> (1)n) The current prospecting is for gold, as it is the dominant economic substance historically <br /> and currently mined in this district. At this time, there are no known secondary products, <br /> but testing in the future might find that other economic products do exist. <br /> (1)(o) Explosives have been used historically on this site and have had no adverse affects on <br /> structures located within the permit area,nor have they had any effect on any adjacent <br /> areas. The large open pit mine located east of Cripple Creek and North of Victor, <br />