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,- =~ <br />Participated in a complete, random sample inspection of the Slurco <br />Corporation, Canadian Strip Mine on March 30, 1993. Inspection participants <br />included myself, Henry P. Austin, and Stephen Rathbun, both representing the <br />Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM-, Albuquerque <br />Field Office (AF01; and Randy Price and David Berry representing the Colorado <br />Department of Natural Resources, Division of Minerals and Geology (DMG-. <br />Weather conditions ranged from clear and sunny to windy and snowing with <br />the later dominating the afternoon. Snow cover prevented driving to the <br />minesite entrance and snow cover from several inches to over two feet <br />persisted throughout the mine making both walking and observations difficult to <br />impossible in some areas. Snow cover was particularly deep trending toward <br />the north half of the affected area and ground observations in this area were <br />impossible. We accessed the Pond #1 area on 3/31 from the adjacent Marr <br />Strip Mine and evaluated what we could see of the embankment and spillway <br />areas. The water pool present was frozen of course and both primary and <br />emergency spillways appeared stable. <br />Portions of the inslope areas to Pond #2 were completely clear and ground <br />conditions were observable. Slopes observed were stable with little sign of <br />erosion features. Rill and gully erosion features from this current runoff season <br />were noted at the southeast corner of the reclaimed area on the southwest <br />facing slope and on a few areas of the reclaimed road outslopes at the <br />3 <br />