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<br />occur at different times of the year. When each type of clay is required for the manufacture of <br />brick, the clay will be loaded from the mined stockpiles into trucks by front-end loaders and <br />hauled to the brick plant. Hauling operations normally occur intermittently on a year-round <br />basis. <br />West pit mining (A9R) continues in Stage lA, proceeding south. Mining will <br />continue io Stage lA for approzimately 20 to 25 years. North pit mining (A91, A92) is io <br />Stage 3, preceding north. Mining iu Stage 3 will continue for 8 to 12 years. <br />. Mining in Stage 2A will not begin until ell most clays io <br />the eastern portion of Stage lA aze removed ~. Mining in Stage 2A will <br />continue for 7 to 12 years then proceed to the western portion of Stage lA. Likewise mining <br />in Stage 2B will not begin until ell most clays in the eastern portion of Stage 3 are removed <br />~e~n~6tage-l-B. Mining in Stage 26 will continue for 15 to 20 years then proceed to Stage lb <br />and then back to the eastern portion of Stage 3. <br />The stockpiling process for each type of clay will begin whh the removal and storage of <br />topsoil from the first area to be mined. The operator will remove soil from an area large enough <br />to accommodate the product stockpiles, the initial soil and overburden stockpiles, and the first <br />azea from which clays will be extracted. Waste material will be stockpiled as well. The clay will <br />then be removed and stockpiled; and then, as needed, each stockpile of clay is blended and <br />hauled to the brick plant. <br />Since the clays are lenticular and irregular, each pit will follow the clay. Extraction will <br />advance through the pit until that clay deposit is depleted. As the pit advances, the tail {or <br />mined-out area) will be reclaimed. As mining progresses into new, undisturbed areas, the soil <br />and overburden material will be used to backfill, slope and recoil the area from which the clay <br />was removed. When excavation of each pit is completed, the original stockpiled topsoil and <br />overburden will be used to complete reclamation. The amount of land disturbed and <br />unreclaimed will be kept to a minimum This method ofreclamation is dependent on a <br />Draft Revision July 1999 <br />7 <br />