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DRMS Permit Index
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
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<br />Summary <br />The Review Process <br /> <br />A number of small underground mines were operated in and closely aajacent to <br />the Raton Creek Mine site from the late 1800's into the early 1900's. In <br />1978, the Animas Coal Company opened a small underground operation in the area <br />called the Helen Mine. An interim coal mining permit was issued to the Animas <br />Coal Company, Inc. for the Helen Mine on February 28, 1979, pursuant to the <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Act. Operations continued under this permit <br />until August 15, 1981 when the interim permit expired and the company ceased <br />operation. Animas Coal Company, Inc. had submitted a new permit application <br />and was in the process of responding to the Preliminary Adequacy Review when <br />the operation was purchased by the Sundance Coal Company in April 1982. <br />Sundance Coal Company became the new permittee on the application initially <br />submitted by Animas Coal Company, Inc. The name of the mine was changed from <br />the Helen Mine to the Animas Mine. On August 16, 1982, permanent program <br />permit No. C-82-055 was issued to Sundance Coal Company for the Animas Mine. <br />After the acquisition of the property, Sundance Coal Company opened the Animas <br />Mine on the south face of Starkville Gulch in the lower Starkville seam. The <br />mine as later driven upward into the upper Starkville seam. Sundance Coal <br />Company also opened and briefly operated a new Helen Mine in the lower <br />Starkville seam on the north face of Starkville Gulch. The new Helen Mine was <br />located west of the earlier Animas Coal Company, Inc. operation. On <br />July 9, 1984, the Division was notified by Sundance Coal Company that <br />operations at the Animas/Helen Mine complex were temporarily suspended. <br />Active operations were not resumed at the mine during the remainder of the <br />first permit term. In accordance with Rule 2.08.5, the Division notified <br />Sundance Coal Company on November 18, 1986, by way of their agent, Panorama <br />Resource Services, Denver, Colorado, that an application for renewal of the <br />Animas Mine permit should be filed by February 16, 1987 or 180 days prior to <br />expiration of the existing permit on August 16, 1987. Sundance Coal Company <br />subsequently filed a complete application for renewal of their permit on <br />April 7, 1987. On April 30, 1987, during the Division's adequacy review of <br />the application, the Animas Mine was sold by Sundance Coal Company to Raton <br />Creek Associates, Ltd., a limited partnership. On the date of the sale, a <br />request for5transfer of the permit for the Animas Mine from Sundance Coal <br />Company to Energy Fuels Mining Company was submitted to the Division. Energy <br />Fuels Mining Company had been authorized by Raton Creek Associates, Ltd. to <br />conduct coal mining activities on the Animas property. <br />The application for renewal of the permit had been filed by Sundance Coal <br />Company. Since Energy Fuels Mining Company was not approved for transfer of <br />the Animas Mine Permit at the conclusion of the review of that application, <br />the Division's preliminary adequacy letter was addressed to Sundance Coal <br />Company on June 2, 1987. The response, however, was made by Energy Fuels <br />Mining Company on July 14, 1987 acting in its capacity as operator of the <br />property for the actual owner, Raton Creek Associates, Ltd. This permit <br />renewal was issued on August 16, 1987. The transfer of the permit to Energy <br />Fuels Mining Company was approved by the Division on September 18, 1987. <br />Coal was mined, processed and shipped from September 1988 to May 1990. Coal <br />was mined only from the Animas portals. The Helen Mine was never activated <br />-4- <br />
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