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<br />Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y=Inspected N=Not Inspected R=Comments Noted V=Violation Issued NA=Not Applicable <br />N - Air Resource Protection <br />N - Availability of Records <br />R - Backfill & Grading <br />R - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />R - Explosives <br />N - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />R - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />N - Processing Waste <br /> <br />Y - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />N - Revegetation <br />N - Subsidence <br />R - Slides and Other Damage <br />N - Support Facilities On-site <br />N - Signs and Markers <br />N - Support Facilities Not On-site <br />N - Special Categories Of Mining <br />R - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />This was a aerial inspection of the Colowyo Mine flown by Harry Raney and reported by Zach Trujillo, both of <br />the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS) on April 24, 2019. No mine representative was <br />present during the inspection. Weather conditions were clear with a high temperature around sixty five degrees <br />fahrenheit. Ground conditions appeared muddy and saturated with some minor snow cover. <br />BACKFILL and GRADING – Rule 4.14 <br />Contemporaneous Reclamation 4.14.1; Approximate Original Contour 4.14.2; Highwall Elimination 4.14.1(2)(f); <br />Steep Slopes 4.14.2, 4.27; Handling of Acid and Toxic Materials 4.14.3; Stabilization of Rills and Gullies 4.14.6: <br />Spoil is being backfilled and regraded within the South Taylor Pit during the inspection. Spoile is being moved by <br />dragline as well as dump truck operations before being graded and compacted. <br /> <br />EXCESS SPOIL and DEVELOPMENT WASTE – Rule 4.09 <br />Placement; Drainage Control; Surface Stabilization: <br />Excess spoil for the Collom Pit development is being placed north of the pit in the Collom Excess Spoil Pile. The <br />pile is being constructed in multiple lifts. Trucks are dumping the excess spoil over the edge of the upper lift <br />where dozers are shaping, grading and compacting along the lower lift. <br /> <br />The South Taylor excess spoil pile remains stable. <br /> <br />Collom Temporary Spoil Pile.