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June 25, 2024 C-1981-037/ GEC Strip Mine HR1 <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 0 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 2 <br /> Page 2 of 3 <br /> <br /> <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 />N - Backfill & Grading <br />N - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />N - Explosives <br />N - Fish & Wildlife <br />N - Hydrologic Balance <br />N - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />N - Processing Waste <br /> <br />N - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />N - Revegetation <br />N - Subsidence <br />N - 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 />N - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />This was a complete inspection of the GEC Mine conducted by Hunter Ridley and Zach Trujillo of Colorado <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS) on June 26, 2024. The landowner, Dr. Corley, did not attend <br />the inspection. The Division did not enter onto the landowners property. The GEC Mine was a surface mine for <br />which the Division has revoked the bond and terminated the permit. Therefore, no mine operator remains. All <br />bond monies available to the Division were utilized by the Division for reclamation activities and no reclamation <br />bond money remains to conduct maintenance activities. The weather was clear and sunny and ground conditions <br />were dry. Temperatures during the inspection were around ninety-eight degrees fahrenheit. <br />As a result of a meeting which occurred on November 13, 2018 between the Corley Company and the Division, <br />only portions of the site which are able to be viewed from the gated county road were inspected (Photo 1), this <br />area is adjacent to the Southfield Mine permit boundary. For more information on the 2018 meeting, please refer <br />to previous inspection reports conducted by the Division. <br />RECLAMATION SUCCESS - Rule 4.15, Rule 3: <br />Reclamation across the observable area has had mixed success. The East Pit Area and Chen’s Hill area were <br />observed for revegetation. Most of the landscape in this area is well established with vegetation along areas of <br />lesser slope. A few larger erosional features have developed over the years following major precipitation events. <br />Several gullies can be observed along the northern slopes of the East Pit Area as well as the Chen’s Hill. Major <br />erosion is noted along drainage intersection between Chen’s Hill and the old county road that runs through the site. <br />Over the years, Pond A has completely filled in with sediment and drainage along that area naturally has been <br />directed around the pond back into the native drainage. <br /> <br /> <br />