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<br /> <br />However, a deposit of a "common variety" mineral does <br />not become unique and locatable merely because of its location, <br />even if the location of the deposit reduces transportation coats <br />and, thus, increases profits. United States v. Sherman C. Smith <br />and Lynda K. Sellers Smith, 115 IBLA 398, 406 (1990); United <br />States v. Frank and Wanita Melluzzo, 76 I.D. 160, 168 (1969); <br />United States v. Mt. Pinos Development Coro., 75 I.D. 320, 327 <br />(1968). <br />"It is the market value of the material above coat of <br />extraction and transportation (including labor) with <br />which we are concerned. For the material to be <br />regarded as economically valuable the market price must <br />include such a value or profit element or increment, <br />and it is that increment attributable to the material <br />itself (rather than to the labor and equipment involved <br />in producing and transporting it to the market) that <br />must prove attractive to the prudent man." Melluzo v. <br />Morton, 534 F.2d 860. 863 (9th Cir. 1976). <br />The three stockpiles in question are shown on <br />Attachments 3 and 4. They are identified as the -1 4" stockpile, <br />the -1". +1/4" stockpile, and the -3". +1" stockpile. The -1 4" <br />stockpile is shown on Attachments 5 through 10. , <br />The BLM has taken representative samples of the <br />material in each of the three stockpiles. Attachment 19 is a <br />copy of the laboratory analyses for the calcium carbonate and <br />total carbonate content of the material in the three stockpiles. <br />The total carbonate percentages shown are in terms of the <br />carbonate ion, not the total contained Ca & Mg carbonates. The <br />13 <br />