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TABLE TWO -- FREMONT COUNTY <br />COMMENTS ON FEATURES <br />Bluff Springs Reclamation Spring 1983 involved conventional excavation and backfillin9 techniques. The <br />Nos. 1 & 2, incline was filled using riprap, fill material from nearby waste banks and topsoil. Mine <br />(cont.) site will be revegetated and fenced during the fall of 1983. <br />Brewster No. 1 S: Four subsidence pits. Two pits are 10' in diameter, 3' deep and mark subsidence around a <br />shaft and an ad it. Two pits (20' x 30' x 5' and 30' x 40' x 4') mark subsidence around a <br />probable shaft and over a room. <br />Z: Production by longwall,and room and pillar mining techniques <br />Brilliant *: One vertical opening. Hoist shaft 4' square at surface, 50' deep; shaft intact and <br />timbered; barbed wire fence around shaft lying on ground. <br />Reclamation plans -- Backfill the vertical opening using a graded fill technique. Riprap <br />and other necessary rock as well as most of the common fill will be obtained off-site. <br />Backfilled areas and coal waste removal areas will be topsoiled and revegetated. (However <br />may be an active mining permit area.) <br />Brookside F: Reference 1 notes mine fires in 1910 and 1961. <br />Nos. 1 & 2 <br />Brookside,(Old) S: Subsidence trough 50' long, 10' wide, 10' deep: marks collapse of ad it of Brookside mine. <br />Reclamation awaiting landowner consent; backfill the ad it with imported riprap and on-site <br />waste. Disturbed areas will be topsoiled and revegetated. <br />Key to unique features symbols: <br />Reclamation and/or plans -- Table Two <br />lists hazard abatement work <br />+ Discrepancy between two sources <br />Z Multiple mining zones <br />* Mine opening information <br />S Subsidence features <br />F Mine fires <br />D Mine drainage <br />-37- <br />