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(Deposition of Ron K. Thompson) 27 <br />• • <br /> 1 one, and that would be the steps I would proceed <br />' 2 with if I were to be expected to find an answer to <br /> 3 that. <br /> 4 Q. You would not undertake to do that <br /> 5 analysis yourself? <br /> 6 A. No. It's not my field of expertise. <br /> 7 MR. BAILEY: That is all the <br /> S questions I have. <br /> 9 REDIRECT EXAMINATION <br /> 10 BY MR. TATUM: <br /> 11 Q. Why was first north abandoned? <br /> 12 A. Mining conditions, a soft floor coupled <br />~+ <br />~' 13 with water coming into the mine and the grade the <br /> 14 entries were on, productivity diminished and it <br /> 15 became too expensive to mine. In other words, the <br /> 16 mine entries were proceeding down and what water <br /> 17 was accumulating in there always .stayed in the face <br /> 18 and soaked into the floor that the equipment had to <br /> 19 run on and the. machinery would get stuck in the <br /> 20 soft area. <br /> 21 Q. What happens in the floor of shafts or <br /> 22 drifts, if that is the correct word, when the floor <br /> 23 sometimes buckles upward, when you put the weight <br />(,~ 24 on, not down subsidence but upward movement; what <br /> 25 causes that? <br /> EARL E. MEEK & ASSOCIATES <br /> 3I1 West 12th St., Pueblo, Co. 81003 (719) 542-1010 <br />