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Annual Report -Attachment <br />Currier Gravel Pit <br />M-1980-203 <br />June 29, 2015 <br />Mesa County, Colorado <br />Permitted acreage is less than 10 acres. <br />Transportation operations and stockpile removal did occur during the report year. <br />No extraction or processing occurred during the report year. <br />Reclamation activity has been performed on approximately 3 acres of land so far. <br />Stockpile removal is expected for the next report year. <br />Pit has bottomed out (further extraction uneconomic). <br />This gravel pit is on intermittent status. Mining activity was less than 180 days during the report year. At <br />the time the operation entered IS there was occasional extraction, crushing and stockpile removal. <br />Historically, gravel demand for this remote location comes from Forest Service or Mesa County <br />governments. Also, oil and gas companies need gravel for their well pads and access roads to their drill <br />sites. The last crushing occurred in September 2008 in anticipation of this demand from oil and gas <br />companies. In November of 2008 nearly all oil and gas activity ceased in this area resulting in a stockpile <br />of gravel at the site. The decision has been made to close and reclaim the pit as soon as the existing <br />stockpile is sold and removed. <br />Operator does not believe there will be more than 180 days of activity in the coming report year. Future <br />activity would only be trucking off stockpiled gravel. There was stockpile removal in the past year in July <br />and October 2014. Acreage is depicted on the submitted map. Legal description on that map was in <br />dispute with the BLM. A settlement agreement was signed with the BLM effective September 26, 2013. <br />The BLM has agreed to sell their claimed land to us. This has not yet been accomplished. <br />Weed spraying occurred during the report year. Pit location markers are located annually. There is no <br />exposed groundwater at the pit. Further reclamation will proceed as soon as the remaining stockpile of <br />gravel is sold and removed. <br />Since 2009 the demand from oil and gas companies has been very low. As soon as stockpiled gravel can <br />be sold and removed, reclamation will be completed. No further extraction or crushing will occur. <br />