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Plus 2 inch rocks minus 6 inch rocks 30% <br />. Sands minus 2 inch rocks 40% <br />Clays and very fine sands 10% <br />Total 100% <br />The remnants of virgin gravels on the property show thicknesses of up to 30 feet at the southern end <br />of the Powless Claim and up to 60 feet at the southern rim of the previously worked gravel on the <br />Alma Claim. Tltis rock is a soft, fine grained Pennsylvania sandstone underlain by a soft black <br />sediment- filled water outflows from the glaciers, one would expect a heavily eroded and very uneven <br />surface in this soft bedrock. <br />Description of the soils existing within the lands to be affected by mining was developed as a result of <br />discussions with Soil Conservation Service staff members and study of existing soils surveys. The <br />aerial map reproduced on page 7 of this document shows the extent of the pre-law disturbance in <br />relationship to the pemut area. The boundaries of these lands are also shown on Map C-1. In all of the <br />.f disturbed areas shown, not a trace of topsoil was salvaged and the vast majority of the areas have <br />washed gravels on the surface with very little fines and natural vegetation has been extremely slow in <br />reclaiming the land, although there are a few patches of volunteer evergreens. Rooting materials are <br />very scarce. <br />Undisturbed soils in the permit area generally exhibit profile development to depths of 24 to 36 <br />inches. Residual soils in the these aeeas have A horizons that are approximately four to six inches of <br />dazk brown sandy loam or loam. These soils have a light brown surface that is very gravelly. <br />However, the gravels are usually in the fine gravel range (4mm to 20mm) instead of exhibiting the <br />full range of gravels. <br />The soils over the azea have B horizons about seven to ten inches thick usually of sandy loam, sand or <br />loamy sand textures. Pazent materials are generally from quaternary glacial till and alluvium, the most <br />wmmon are gneisses. The weathering of this material has lead to the development of the generally <br />. - <br />Alma Placer 7/03 66 <br />