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September 3, 2020 C-2010-089/New Horizon North Mine JHB <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 />Y - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />NA - Explosives <br />N - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />Y - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br />NA -Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />Y - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />N - Slides and Other Damage <br />N - Support Facilities On-site <br />N -Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On-site <br />N - Special Categories Of Mining <br />Y -Topsoil <br />COMMENTS <br />This was an aerial inspection conducted by Brock Bowles and Janet Binns of CDR -MS. Aerial photos were <br />collected by Brock Bowles on 9/3/202. The images were then downloaded. These images were reviewed by Janet <br />Binns on 9/14/2020. <br />The weather appears clear and dry at the time the aerial images were collected. <br />HYDROLOGIC BALANCE -Rule 4.05 <br />Drainage Control 4.05.1, 4.05.2, 4.05.3; Siltation Structures 4.05.5, 4.05.6; Discharge Structures 4.05.7, 4.05.10; <br />Diversions 4.05.4; Effluent Limits 4.05.2; Ground Water Monitoring 4.05.13; Surface Water Monitoring 4.05.13; <br />Drainage — Acid and Toxic Materials 4.05.8; Impoundments 4.05.6, 4.05.9; Stream Buffer Zones 4.05.18: <br />Pond 1 was holding a small puddle of water on the extreme East end of the pond. The inslopes of pond I <br />are fairly thin of vegetation, but rilling was not apparent. The bottom of the pond had some vegetative cover. <br />Pond 2 had a very small pool of water on the south east side of the pond. Some equipment has been in the bottom <br />of pond 2, as noted by tracks. Pond 2 inslopes appear to have fair vegetative cover in spite of the dry conditions. <br />Ditches around the permit perimeter appear intact. <br />RECLAMATION SUCCESS - Rule 4.15, Rule 3: <br />The irrigated pasture has been cut, and at the time of the inspection it appears that the farmer was raking <br />the field into windrows. It looks like the baler is just about ready to operate on the west side of the irrigated <br />pasture. The dryland pasture portions of the reclaimed area are very dry and have thin vegetative cover. <br />Photo No. 2 shows the low spot on the NW side of the irrigated pasture that is pooling. This spot is south of the <br />overburden material pile south of pond 2. <br />TOPSOIL — Rule 4.06 <br />Removal 4.06.2; Substitute Materials 4.06.4(4); Storage and Protection 4.06.3; Redistribution 4.06.4: <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 2 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: l <br />Page 2 of 5 <br />