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5/~ r/~~Dh L • ~ ~ ~1~ Y~S / III I II I II I II IIII III Doc Date:12/11/2001 <br />2.04.3 Site Description and Land Use Information <br />• The Raton Creek Mine property is located approximately 3 miles south of Trinidad and <br />east of Interstate Highway 25. This part of the Trinidad coal field is south of the <br />Pergatoire River and east of Raton Creek. The area is a well dissected table land where <br />most of the flat uplands have been removed by erosion so that it appeals mountainous. <br />Two or three miles to the south is Fishers Plateau which has a flat upper surface at and <br />elevation of 9600 feet. Trinidad lies at and elevation of about 6000 feet. Elevations on the <br />permit area range from 6300 to 7600 feet and the more important coal seams outcrop <br />elevations between 6380 and 6500 feet. Regionally, elevations gradually increase from <br />north to south. <br />In the flatter areas of the region, a thick sandy soil cover exists. Where slopes are <br />significant, bedrock is exposed. However, the softer units aze usually draped with a <br />veneer of earth and only the harder units are hazed. Coal outcrops are usually blanketed <br />but a dazk grey soil often reveals its location. <br />Map No. 2, Animas Mine Project Land Use, shows the existing land use and the known <br />• portals of previous mining. 'The extent of the Raton Creek Mines, previous mining, and <br />surface areas disturbed by previous mining is shown on Map No. 6, Raton Creek Mine <br />Map. With the exception of Raton Creek No. 2 Mine portal area, almost the entire <br />surface disturbance azea for the Raton Creek Mines has been previously disturbed by past <br />(pre-law) mining but was never reclaimed. <br />The first rewrded mine production in the vicinity of the Raton Creek Mines was from the <br />EI Moro (or Engleville) 1, 2, and 3 coal mines operating on the Starkville Seam from <br />1883 to 1892. Other mines had operated in the area prior to 1883 but their production was <br />never recorded with Colorado Division of Mines. Since 1883, 29 mines have operated <br />within or just adjacent to the permit area. Table 1, Coal Mines Located Within the Raton <br />Creek Interest Area, presents a list of the major mines (excluding Raton Creek), their <br />dates of operation, seam name and thickness, and known mine life production. <br /> <br />33 Rcvised: 1/27/98 <br />iofiaorRedsioa-p2'S <br />~N-o3 ~-~~ 9~ <br />