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<br />Insert "A" moved <br />'lie mining operation will continue:year-found-on ailemand basis. When clay or <br />d is re fired by the brick.plantS; the material.willbe'removed frt7m stockpiles at th'_ <br />mine. Asthe stockpiles sie reduced;' new sfocktiiles will be erected with: mined materials. <br />The clays to be mined lie in almost vertical strata (70 to 80 degrees from <br />horizontal) which are interbedded with sandstone and coal seams. Clay stockpiles will be <br />located in east of the mining operation in Stages 2, 4 & 5. Large volumes of sandstone <br />and coal, called interburden, in the clay will make the material unsuitable for the <br />manufacture of brick. <br />. Approximately 40 <br />percent of the pit volume is expected to produce wastes interburden. Interburden is <br />mined in conjunction with the clay and used to reclaim mined azeas. In the event there <br />are no areas to reclaim as interburden is being produced, excess interburden will lazgely <br />be stockpiled east of the mining operations along the northern, eastern or southern permit <br />boundaries in Stages 2, 4 & 5 or in the eastern azeas of Stages 2, 4 &5. The interburden <br />stockpiles located neaz topsoil stockpiles will be kept separate from the topsoil stockpiles. <br /> <br />Insert"B" moved <br />Oi--site equiPmentrnay include; but is not,timited to, dozers, scfapers; backhoes; front <br />end loaders; dump flocks and a water &~eiie>`truck <br />The main source of water in the minine azeas is exoected to come from minor <br />surface water runoffs. In the pits being mined, new it has been noted that water from <br />runoff generally percolates through the sand leaving the pits €nifFy relatively dry. ~xne~' <br />. Stages 2, 4 <br />and 5 may have slightly greater drainage courses. During mining, these courses will be <br />diverted, as needed, to isolate the mined <br />12 Revised: Dec. 2003 <br />