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REPORT ON SITE CONDITIONS <br />WEST SUNDAY MINE, PERMIT M-1981-021 <br />March 2003 <br />The West Sunday Mine is one of five permitted mines held by the Operator in the Big <br />Gypsum Valley of San Miguel County, Colorado (see Figure 1, GENERAL LOCATION MAP, <br />1' = 300'). <br />Site Features. <br />The West Sunday Mine Permit includes the mine portal, mine yard, support buildings, <br />electric power service, topsoil stockpile, waste dump, and related access road. There are three <br />vent shafts and related power facilities and access roads associated with this Permit. Figure 2, <br />WEST SUNDAY MINE, PERMIT M-1981-021, ROADS AND VENT HOLES, 1" = 200', <br />shows the location of the West Sunday Mine and related remote installations. Figure 3, WEST <br />SUNDAY MINE, PERMIT M-1981-021, 1" = 100', shows the details of the West Sunday Mine <br />surface installation. <br />Roads and Vent Holes. <br />Figure 2 shows the location of the three vent holes, and associated power facilities and <br />access roads, included under the West Sunday Mine Permit. Figure 2 also shows the location of <br />the SJ-1 vent shaft and the nearby compressor station. The individual sites are described <br />hereunder. <br />WS-1 Vent -This vent shaft location is the northernmost of the three vent holes included <br />under the Permit. The access into the site is steep, but generally is in passable condition. The <br />access road is a branch off the existing BLM main road along the ridgeline. The WS-1 location <br />is stable and sparsely vegetated. The vent shaft is grated and secure. <br />Immediately down slope from the WS-1 vent is a large transformer station. The <br />transformer installation is fenced and secure. The power line into this installation belongs to San <br />Miguel Power Company; some of the transformers at this installation belong to the Operator and <br />some belong to the utility. The utility has been contacted to coordinate with the Operator in <br />confirming ownership of all electrical facilities in the area. <br />The access road to WS-1 and the transformer installation continues southerly past the <br />installations and ties into an E-W road that follows along the hillside. The access road down the <br />slope is steep and in poor condition. <br />WS-2 Vent -The WS-2 vent shaft is located immediately adjacent to the access road that <br />branches off the existing maintained BLM road a short distance to the east of the WS-2 site. <br />This access road passes through the WS-2 site and extends to the west to a compressor <br />installation and the WS-3 vent site. The WS-2 site is stable and secure with limited natural <br />revegetation taking place. There is no caving around the shaft collar, and the shaft is grated and <br />secure. Some minor erosion from the cutbank above the site is washing material onto the <br />location. Three transformers are mounted on a pole; these units belong to the local utility. <br />