2024-06-25_PERMIT FILE - C1980007A ‎(4)‎

• Permit No: C1980007A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 6/25/2024
• Doc Name: pg 2.05-101 to 2.05-199
• Section_Exhibit Name: 2.05.5 & 2.05.6 Post-Mining Land Uses and Mitigation of Surface Coal Mining Operation Impacts
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

West Elk Mine

2.05-106 Rev. 06/05- PR10, 03/06- PR10, 05/06- PR10, 11/060- TR107, 04/07- TR108, 09/07- PR12, 02/08- PR12; 11/10- MR372; 10/20- MR-452;
12/20- TR149; 12/21- TR150, 1/24-TR152

Table 42A - Inventory of Structures & Renewable Resource Lands in the Permit & Adjacent Areas
Structure or Renewable
Resource Land Location Description
Deep Creek Ditch Flume
(raised culvert)
Adjacent to east side of
permit area

Deep Creek Ditch Dry Fork Lease Area Maps 66 and 67.
Minnesota Creek Ditch Rider’s
Cabin
Dry Fork Basin Single-story, wood-framed building built in 1950s, 24 ft. 4 in. by 16
ft. 4 in.
Lower Cow Camp Dry Fork Basin Cabin and corrals. Seasonal living quarters for range cowboy. USFS-
owned, leased to Dry Fork Cattle Pool. (Exhibits 60D and 73, Maps
66, 67, and 68). Wood-framed building on concrete slab, completed
by landowner in 1994. Smaller wood-framed building and livestock
enclosure, constructed November 1995 (Exhibit 73).
Monument Dam and
Minnesota Reservoir
Dry Fork Minnesota Creek Intermittent, seasonal use (Exhibit 74, Maps 66, 67, and 68).
Cabin Sylvester Gulch Deteriorated and collapsed (not usable).
Soil and stone foundations Sylvester Gulch, overlooks
mine portal

Various abandoned structures Various locations in permit
area (none in West Flat Iron
lease tract, COC-67011)
Cultural Resources Reports in Exhibits 10, 10A, 10B, 10C, 10D, and
10E.
State Highway 133 Northern edge of permit
boundary
Asphalt-surfaced public highway. Maps 66, 67, and 68.
USFS Water Resources Throughout permit area Maps 68 and 73.
USFS Roads - 711 – Dry Fork
Rd.; 711.A1 – West Flatiron
Rd; 711.A3 – Upper Deep
Creek Rd.; 711.2B – Horse
Gulch Rd.
Dry Fork, West Flatiron, and
Deep Creek
Maps 66, 67, and 68.
Alluvial aquifer of North Fork
of the Gunnison River
Adjacent to north side of
permit area
Map 66.
Alluvial aquifer of Minnesota
Creek
Adjacent to west side of
permit area
Map 66.

Man-made surface structures exist on the coal lease area and within the SOD mining area (Exhibit
32B and Map 67). The only known man-made structures which are currently used (intermittent
seasonal use) are Monument Dam - Minnesota Reservoir (Exhibit 74) and a cattle camp on the Dry
Fork of Minnesota Creek with a wood-framed building on a concrete slab completed by the
landowner in October 1994 and a smaller wood-framed building and livestock enclosure
constructed in November, 1995 (see Exhibit 73). A deteriorated and collapsed cabin exists in
Sylvester Gulch, and the remnants of soil and stone foundations of two buildings exist on a small
bench overlooking the mine portal. Other abandoned structures in the permit area, are described in