PERMFILE105117

• Permit No: M1977247
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 9/29/1977
• Doc Name: APPLICATION FOR MINING AND RECLAMATION PERMIT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

• Exhibit D Hining Plan
The extraction of hydrous calcium sulphate, Ca504.2H2O, commonly
known as gypsum, has occurred at Coaldale, Colorado, since 1907. At
That time up to 1956, local miners extracted gypsum under contract
with the property o~.,mer, the Ideal Cement Company. Ideal sold the
property to Pabco Corporation in 1955. In 1956 Pabco changed its
name to Fiberboard Paper Products Corp. and began using approximately
one-half of the Coaldale gypsum production at their wall beard
manufacturing facility, located four miles East of Florence, Colorado.
Fiberboard sold both properties to the Johns-Manville Corp. in 1968, and
they operated the properties until the Flintkote Company purchase in
August, 1973.
The Coaldale operation currently produces 170,000 tons annually,
• supplying 110,000 tons to the only wallboard manufacturing facility
in the State of Colorado, and approximately 60,000 tons of gypsum to
Ideal Basic Industries, Portland, Colorado, for the manufacture of
cement. The Coaldale mining operation is integrally related to the
jobs of more than 300 persons living in Colorado.
It might be noted that the mine site reflects more than seventy
years of mining without reclamation efforts, and more than twenty years
of modern, heavy mining equipment without long range planning for maximum
life expectancy, reclamation planning, or projected land use after mining.
In 1974, a long range mining and land use plan was initiated. Adherence
to Che long range plan will insure a maximum life of the mine and controlled,
homogeneous product meeting all specifications for wallboard and cement
• manufacture.