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(Page 2) <br />MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID # M-2004-084 <br />INSPECTION DATE 3-3-2005 INSPECTOR'S INITIALS SSS <br />OBSERVATIONS <br />This was apre-operational inspection of the Benson Brothers Pig Mesa Pit site for the original 112c permit application. <br />No permanent man-made structures, other than the cistern and fences noted in the permit, were located on site. <br />No exposed groundwater was noted and none is expected to be encountered due to the location of this site on the edge of a <br />bluff. <br />Vegetation is very sparse and consists mostly of annuals such as cheatgrass, halogeton, Russian thistle and tumble mustard. <br />Scattered shrubs such as Mat saltbush, shadscale, and Gardner saltbush dot the site as well as scattered prickly pear cactus. <br />Perennials also include some galleta and alkali sacaton in the drainage bottoms that encompass a very small portion of this site <br />acreage. Benson Brothers will need to verify that none of the drainages in the northeast corner of the site, to be filled and <br />leveled for use as a processing area, contain any wetlands requiring mitigative measures. <br />The upland portion of the site has two rather large areas that were obviously disturbed prior to application for this permit. Ed <br />Benson indicated that these two swaths of cleared vegetation and leveled land were constructed for the locals to use as <br />runways for model airplane flights. Numerous broken propellers were noted on these locations. <br />The required posting of the notice of pending application for a reclamation permit was in place at the proposed site access. <br />The portion of the site covered by the Orchard Clay Loam does appear to support somewhat better vegetation, including more <br />grasses, than does the other portions of the site. DMG again recommends that this soil be salvaged and utilized for <br />reclamation of the site. <br />Responses to this inspection report should be directed to Steve Shuey at the Division of Minerals and Geology, Grand Junction <br />Field Office, 101 South 3rd Street, Room 301, Grand Junction, Colorado 81501, phone number 970-243-6368. <br />I & E Contact Address <br />NAME <br />OPERATOR <br />STREET <br />CITY/STATE/ZIP <br />Ed Benson <br />Benson Brothers <br />21240 Austin Road <br />Austin. Colorado 81410 <br />cc: <br />^ CE <br />^ BL <br />^ FS <br />^ HW <br />^ HMWMD (CH} <br />^ SE <br />^ WOCD (CH) <br />^ OTHER -Mike Ripp - MVR Resources <br />