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i::iaODliCTIOn <br />The South Canon City Coal Field is located in the south-central <br />portion of the Rockvale Quadrangle, Fremont County, Colorado. The <br />Joint Venture's leases cover parts of Sections 25 and 26, T.20S., <br />R.lOk'., and part of Sections 19 and 30, T.20S.,'R.69W. (Figure 1). <br />The lease ground covers a northeast sloping grassy mesa which <br />extends eastward from the foot o." the Wet Mountains. The mesa <br />top slopes 10-127. and is cut by numerous northeasterly trending <br />dry washes and ephemeral streams. The ground surface of the lease <br />holdings range in elevation from 6100 feet to 6800 feet, for a <br />maximum topographic relief of 700 feet. <br />The lease tract lies in a semi-arid climate having an average <br />• annual precipitation of 15 inches. Approximately 9 inches of <br />this precipitation occurs between the months of May and September. <br />The mining operation proposed by the Dorchester-Colomine <br />Joint Venture will extract coal from the Pine Gulch and Red Arrow <br />coal seams of the Vermejo formation. All mining will .be conducted <br />underground through portals located in the NEB of the NW3; of Section <br />30, T.20S., R.69W. I~u:nerous other mines, both surface and underground, <br />exist in the vicinity and on the lease tract. These operations worked <br />seams in the Ve rejo forv~.ation which are shallower than those <br />proposed for mining by the Joint Venture. I4ost of the pre-existing <br />operations are now abandoned, however, there zs still some mining <br />activity in the area. <br />• <br />-1- ~1 <br />