PERMFILE41180

• Permit No: M1977342
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 9/19/1977
• Doc Name: ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF HENDERSON MINE INCLUDING RECLAMATION PLAN
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. INTRODUCTION ........................................ 1-1
2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION/MINING PLAN ..................... 2-1
2.1 MINE SITE ...................................... 2-1
2.2 ORE-HAULAGE RAILWAY ............................ 2-4
2.3 MILL, CRUSHER, CONCENTRATOR AND
TAILING DEPOSITION SITE ...................... 2-4
3. PRE-MINING LAND USE ................................. 3-1
Mine Site ..... ............................... 3-1
Ore Haulage Railway ............................ 3-2
Mill Site ...................................... 3-3
3.1 CLIMATOLOGY .................................... 3-5
Mine Site ..............•---............... 3-5
Mill Site ................................. 3-5
4. PREPLANNING TO MINIM22E ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACT - "An Experiment in Ecology" ............... 4-1
• 4.1 ECOLOGICAL INVENTORY ...:::::::::::::::::::::::: 4-3
4.2 ECOLOGICAL fdONITORING.. 4-3
5. DISTURBANCE OF SURFACE LANDS ........................ 5-1
5.1 MINE SITE (Before 1969) ........................ 5-1
5.2 MINE SITE (After 1969) ..... ...................
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5.3 1969) ..............
ORE-HAULAGE RAILWAY (Before 5-4
5.4 .ORE-HAULAGE RAILWAY (After 1969) ............... 5-5
5.5 MILL SITE (Before 1969) ........................ 5-7
5.6 MILL SITE (After 1969) ......................... 5-8
5.7 SUMMARY OF DISTURBANCES ........................ 5-9
6. ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AFFECTED BY
SURFACE DISTURBANCES .............................. 6-1
6.1 VEGETATION........... ....................... 6-1
Mine-site Vegetation ...................... 6-1
Mill-site Vegetation ............... .... 6-3
Program to Minimize Effect on
Vegetation ....... ...................... 6-4
Vegetation Monitoring ..................... 6-5
Effect on Vegetation ...................... 6-6
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