MINEBK00787

• County: Fremont
• Document: FROMSIC
• Suffix: A

TABLE TWO -- FREMONT COUNTY
MINE NAME COMMENTS ON FEATURES
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Fremont Reclamation plans:
(cont.) Replace the deteriorating concrete cap over the hoist shaft and place a concrete cap over
the ventilation shaft. Compacted areas will be ripped and seeded.
Golden Quality D: Original entry cut off by high wall of subsequent Carestia strip mine. Water draining from
No. 3 exposed main drift. Water is high in iron and salts. Flow in 1980 is the first in several
years.
Golden Quality *: One horizontal opening. Mouth of adit is 5' high, 10' wide, well supported by timbers;
No. 5 intact ad it goes into hillside more than 100'; no access deterrent.
Horseshoe Z: Production by Longwell, and Room and Pillar mining techniques.
(Blue Ribbon)
Reclamation plans awaiting landowner consent -- Backfill the ad its using on-site riprap and
coal waste material. Backfilled areas and coal waste removal areas will be topsoiled and
revegetated.
L. & C. No. 2 F: Reference 2 notes that the mine was closed and sealed in 1960 because of the Big 3-Dutch
(L. & C.) Oven fire.
Reclamation plans awaiting landowner consent -- Backfill the ad it with riprap and by
collapsing the face-up area. Disturbed areas will be topsoiled and revegetated.
Liberty *: One inclined opening. Opening of incline is 2.5' high, 4' wide and goes into hillside an
(see Carbon Mine, unknown distance; mine roof partially collapsed; no access deterrent.
Table One)

Key to unique features symbols: Z Multiple mining zones
* Mine opening information
Reclamation and/or plans -- Table Two S Subsidence features
lists hazard abatement work F Mine fires
+ Discrepancy between two sources D Mine drainage -44-