GENERAL32611

• Permit No: C1982055
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 5/1/1993
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision & Findings of Compliance for RN2
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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This document is the decision package prepared by the Colorado Division of
Minerals and Geology (the Division) for the Raton Creek Mine. This document
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application; a summary which includes a history of the review of the permit
application, a description of the environment affected by the operation and a
description of the mining and reclamation plan; and 3) the written findings of
compliance the Division has made as required by the Colorado Surface Coal
Mining Reclamation Act. Detailed information concerning the findings of
compliance can be found in the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land
Reclamation Board for Coal Mining.
The Division has received an application for a
reclamation operations at the Raton Creek Mine.
by Energy Fuels Mining Company. The Mine will
Mining Company. The mine is located on Private
County, Colorado. The legal description of the
permit area is:
Raton Creek Mine Ar
T.33S, R.63W., SW1/4 of Section 31;
permit renewal to conduct
The application was submitted
be operated by Energy Fuels
lands within Las Animas
lands included within the
T.33S., R.64W., all of Section 36 except portions of the W1/2 W1/2;
T.34S., R.63W, all of Section 6 and Nl/Z NE1/4, NEl/4 NWl/4 of Section 7;
T.34S., R.64W, E1/2 El/2 of Section 1 of the 6th P.M.
Santa Fe Loadouts Nos. 1 and Z:
Southeast of Interstate 26 between North Linden Avenue on the Northeast
and Commercial
T.32S., R.64W.
T32S., R.64W.,
T32S., R.63W.,
T.32S., R.64W,
Street on the Southwest in:
W1/2 NW1/4 NW1/4 of Section 18;
El/2 NE1/4 NEl/4 of Section 13;
W1/2 NWl/4 of Section 18;
El/2 N1/4 of Section 13 of the 6th P.M
Burlington Loadout Area:
East of Interstate 25 and generally North of Goddard Avenue in:
T.32S., R.63W., NW1/4 SE1/4, NEl/4, SW1/4 of Section 7, of the 6th P.M.
The U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute Quadrangle Maps which cover the above
described permit areas are entitled Trinidad West, Colorado and Starkville,
Colorado.