1999-01-27_PERMIT FILE - M1999006

• Permit No: M1999006
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 1/27/1999
• Doc Name: CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS REGULAR 112 OPERATION RECLAMATION PERMIT APPLICATION FORM
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Exhibit D - Mining Plan •
6.4.4
The mining plan shall supply the following information, correlated with the affected lands, map(s)
and timetables:
a) description of the method(s)of mining to be employed in each stage of the operation as
related to any surface disturbance on affected lands;
b) earthmoving;
c) all water diversions and impoundments; and
d) the size of area(s) to be worked at any one time.
e) An approximate timetable to describe the mining operation. The timetable is for the
purpose of establishing the relationship between mining and reclamation during the different
phases of a mining operation. An Operator/Applicant shall not be required to meet specific dates
or initiation, or completion of mining in a phase as may be identified in the timetable. This does
not exempt an Operator/Applicant from complying with the performance standards of Section 3.1.
Such timetable should include:
i) an estimate of the periods of time which will be required for the various stages or
phases of the operation;
ii) a description of the size and location of each area to be worked during each phase;
and
iii) outlining the sequence in which each stage or phase of the operation will be carried
out.
(Timetables need not be separate and distinct from the mining plan, but may be incorporated
therein.)
Setting: The areas designated for resource recovery on Exhibit C- 2: Mining Plan Map ]I and
settling pond(s), II, IV, V, and VI), lie over a nearly level upper terrace of St. Vrain Creek.
The placement of the railroad bed in the early 1900's interrupted the flood plain typified by the
FEMA map for this location and represented on Exhibit C-1: Pre-Mining Map. With the railroad
came settlement, and we estimate this area has been farmed since the turn of the century,or near
the time of the establishment of the Union Pacific Railroad spur in 1909 [Note: The spur has since
been abandoned, and is now owned by the Town of Firestone, as identified under Exhibit C-1:
Pre-Mining Map].
Entry to the mine for heavy equipment and haul traffic will occur from the near center of the
operations from Colorado Highway 66, South and Weld County Road 17, East, as shown on
Exhibit C-2: Mining Plan Map. Location of the proposed access road off Colorado Highway 66
will provide greater safety for haul trucks exiting the property since it increases the total distance to
the Bridge over St. Vrain Creek, respective of the present location of Weld County Road 17.
The reclamation plan is intended to facilitate the safety of Weld County Road 17 from its present
location. Upon the termination of all resource recovery,exhaustion of stockpiled resource and
reclamation of the property, as part of that reclamation,the intent is to relocate Weld County Road
17 to the approximate location shown on Exhibit F: Reclamation Plan Map.
Area Soils & Geology: Soils are described more thoroughly under Exhibit I - Soils Exhibit,
and the attending Exhibit 11- Soils and Vegetation Map. The bottomland or lower terrace portion
of Section 29 adjacent to St. Vrain Creek, and portions of the cropped upper terrace have soils
typified by aquolls, aquents, and aquepts soil units. These soils generally have poorly defined soil
horizonation, typical of entisols and inseptisols of active or former flood plains. On the lower
EXHIBIT D - Mining Plan
Colorado Division of Mineral s & Geology Regular Impact [1121 Construction Material Permit
Sand Land, Inc. - Kurtz Resource Recovery & Development Project - January 1999