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<br />• CASTLE CONCRETE COMPANY <br />PIKEVIEW QUARRY 77-211 <br />EXHIBIT D <br />MINING PLAN <br />The mining plan for the Pikeview Quarry presents a picture of <br />continued mining on this site for approximately 70 to 80 more years. <br />Additional lands that have not been affected previously will be mined, <br />but most of the mining will occur on the previously disturbed lands. <br />Therefore, the Pikeview Quarry is a long-lived mining operation and will <br />be operated well into the next century. <br />HISTORY OF MINE - Most of the area occupied by the Pikeview Quarry was <br />mined by the Peter Kiewit Co. in the 1950's and 1960. The site was used <br />as the primary source of aggregate to build the United States Air Force <br />• Academy. Castle Concrete Company leased the quarry in 1969 from the <br />Golden Cycle Corporation and purchased it in 1974. Since then all <br />material removed has been done by Castle Concrete Company. <br />It is notable that virtually all the present quarry area was <br />mined prior to Castle Concrete Company entering the area. Although <br />Castle Concrete Company assumes the responsibility for the reclamation <br />of most, if not all, the area it is important that previous mining was <br />quite obviously done with little or no thought given effectively to <br />reclaiming the site to a subsequent beneficial use. In some respects <br />Castle Concrete's assumption of that responsibility is equivalent to <br />assuming responsibility for the actions of a rogue white elephant. <br />Effective reclamation of the site in its current condition would be a <br />• virtual impossibility and the only way such reclamation can effectively <br />be achieved is to remine the area to produce better grades and some <br />P-D-1 <br />