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planning effort to determine if it could modify its reclamation plan to support such land <br />• use additions, should they be considered for property owned or controlled by CC&V. <br />Under Amendment No. 7, the MLRB agreed with CC&V's request that the current <br />reclamation plan be approved, but any reclamation changes as a result of this planning <br />effort be considered as Technical Revisions to Permit M-80-244 should the joint planning <br />effort identify alternative land uses that CC&V can propose to incorporate into its <br />reclamation plan. Since Amendment No. 7, that planning process has been completed <br />and the area of the Cresson Project, as proposed, is within the area designated as that <br />planned for mining, with wildlife and livestock grazing as the post-mining objectives. <br />However, additional changes to the post-mining land use still could be identified by <br />Teller County. Thus, the same reclamation plan request noted above is made with this <br />Amendment No. 8 application. <br />4.4 Geology <br />• There have been no changes in the description of the general site geology from <br />the discussions in previously approved documents; however, that infotination is provided <br />in this section for ease of review. Additional geologic information is provided below for <br />those extensions of existing areas. Drawing C-7 represents the District geology. <br />The District lies near the southern end of the Colorado Front Range. It is located <br />on the southwestern flank of Pikes Peak. Much of the country rock around the District is <br />Precambrian gneiss that was subsequently intruded by Pikes Peak granite during <br />emplacement of the Pikes Peak batholith which formed the topographic feature Pikes <br />Peak. Approximately 32 million yeazs ago, in the Tertiary period, volcanic activity took <br />place in the form of the emplacement of a complex alkaline diatreme, which was <br />subsequently intruded by successive sequences of fluids and molten rock to form plugs, <br />flow domes, small stocks, and late-stage diatremal pipes and alkaline igneous dikes. <br />Most of the gold deposits in the District occur in a mass of volcanic rocks explosively <br />emplaced into the surrounding granitic country rocks, which consisted of biotite gneiss, <br />• quartz monzonite, granodiorite, and granite, though minor mineralization also occurs in <br />IS <br />