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There is a possibility that the mossrock on the hogback can be marketed. <br />If so, the rock will be removed as mining progresses. No mossrock <br />will be removed ahead of the then current mining stage. <br />During the first stage of mining, overburden will be used for making <br />pads east of the hogback on which the mined clay is stockpiled. Also, <br />a waste stockpile will be made to store additional overburden until <br />needed for the backfilling and recontouring of later mined out stages. <br />As mining operations begin on each successive stage, some of the over- <br />burden will be used to backfill the open stopes; the remainder will <br />be removed and used to backfill the previously mined areas. <br />As described before, three clay veins are planned to be mined. If <br />the clay and overburden are soft enough to rip, they will be mined <br />using bulldozers with rippers and scrapers. The clay from the H3 <br />will be stockpiled on the pads east of the hogback and the clay from <br />the HS and remaining H4 will be stockpiled on the partially reclaimed <br />previous stage. The overburden will be placed in either the overburden <br />storage stockpile or used to reclaim the previously mined areas. <br />If clay or overburden is encountered that cannot be ripped, the over- <br />burden will be benched down in front of the clay by drilling and <br />blasting, and then removed with dozers and scrapers. The clay will <br />also be benched down by drilling and blasting after the overburden <br />has been removed, and then stockpiled on the clay stockpile pads with <br />bulldozers and scrapers. <br />Mining will be conducted in ten stages to minimize surface disturbances <br />at any one time. Mining will proceed form Stage 1 in numeric order <br />through Stage 10. This staging pattern is shown on Map Exhibit D-1. <br />There are approximately 7.95 acres of existing access roads. Additional <br />access to the mining areas will be within the affected lands. <br />This pit will be operated on a demand basis. Normally, the mining and <br />stockpiling of the clay at the mine site will take two to three months, <br />once per year. As the clay is needed it will be loaded by front-end <br />loaders from the mine stockpiles into trucks and hauled to the plants. <br />At the completion of mining, the landowners require that one access <br />raod be left along the east side of the hogback, the location to be <br />chosen at the time of completion of the mining. If the location of <br />this road is different from the existing road, the present route will <br />be reclaimed. <br />f <br />