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<br />(Page 2) <br />MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID #: M-2000-052 <br />INSPECTION DATE: 6!2812000 <br />OBSERVATIONS <br /> <br />INSPECTOR'S INITIALS: AIW <br />This was apre-operational inspection conducted by Tony Waldron of DMG along with Tom Smith of Rock Mountain Materials <br />and Asphalt. The site is located approximately 4 miles south of Florence, Colorado and just east of Hwy 67. The pit is going <br />to be situated along an old alluvial plain remnant. The remnant plain forms aflat-topped ridge that is fairly wide (600-800 feet) <br />and drops off both sides rather steeply. The ridge extends well beyond the permit boundary to the northeast. There is also an <br />area along the south that runs in a more east-west direction. <br />The permit boundaries are situated such that they only cover the top of the ridge down to the bottom of the gravel deposit. <br />There is one old but producing oil well situated on top of the ridge that will need to be lowered during mining and re-set once <br />the area has been mined through. The application contains a damage agreement letter from the owner of the well to the <br />operator. The only other structure currently on site is the livestock fence. This will also need to have a damage waiver. There <br />are a couple of R.O.W. easements that traverse the permit area but no structures presently exist in these R.O.W.'s. <br />The site is presently being used as rangeland and is covered in vegetation typical to this area such as Blue grams dominated <br />grasslands interspersed with PinonlJuniper woodlands. No noxious weeds were observed on site. The soils appear to be <br />adequate on the upper flat areas but clearly thin out on the sideslopes. There are no primary drainages within the permit area <br />and the nearest receiving drainage appears to be an intermitten or ephermeral drainage at best. The overburden varies from 0 <br />to approximately 6 feet in thickness and the gravel deposit is up to 20 feet thick. The mining plan basically removes the top 20 <br />or so feet of the ridge leaving a level area resembling the present topography except where it transitions into the adjacent <br />property. <br />No problems observed and this concluded the inspection. <br />I & E Contact Address <br />NAME: Gre¢orv S. Shinn <br />OPERATOR: Rockv Mountain Materials & Asphalt, Inc. <br />STREET: 1910 Rand Ave. <br />CITY/STATE2IP: Colorado Sorin¢s, Colorado 80906 <br />cc Jim Stevens-DMG <br />^ CE <br />^ BL <br />^ FS <br />^ HW <br />^ HMWMD (CH) <br />^ SE <br />^ WQCD (CH) <br />^ OTHER <br />