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produced by the mining operation to manufacture concrete. That <br /> the batch plant was predicated on — and secondary to — the <br /> existence of the mining operation was thus evident from the <br /> framework of the project itself. <br /> I) Moreover, in its briefing to the Board on the "accessory use" <br /> issue, Ready-Mix represented, among other things, that <br /> • the mining operation would occupy ninety-six percent of the <br /> property, while the batch plant would occupy four percent; <br /> • the planned investment in the mining operation was <br /> $9,860,000, as opposed to only $1,500,000 for the batch <br /> plant; and <br /> • of the $788,900 reclamation bond that Ready-Mix intended to <br /> post with the Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and <br /> Safety, ninety-seven percent of the bond can be attributed to <br /> mining, and only three percent to the batch plant. <br /> Additionally, at the hearing on the application, the senior <br /> planner of the Department testified that, from his department's <br /> perspective, a concrete batch plant is a "normal ancillary or <br /> pertinent use" to a sand and gravel operation. He also <br /> acknowledged that "[i]t has historically been Larimer County's <br /> 45 <br />