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- 1 O - <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />by Colorado Fuel .4 Iron in a search for re- <br />serves of metallurgical coal. When the coal <br />was determined to be other than metallurgical, <br />C.F. & I. abandoned the property. Since that <br />time, the property has had a series of owner- <br />operators, the most recent of which was Bensin- <br />ger and Bensinger, Inc. The mine site is on <br />the north side of Fourmile Creek and County Road <br />116, just east of the Sunlight Ski area. Com- <br />plete discussions of the geologic and hydrolo- <br />gic environment are included in the SOAP report <br />submitted by J. F. Sato and Associates. <br />All mining operations have been conducted <br />from the same location and have utilized a slope <br />driven down the dip of the "D" seam for access <br />and haulage. All mining operations have been of <br />a modified room and pillar type with haulage <br />rooms being driven on the strike of the coal seam <br />and rooms being driven up the pitch of the coal <br />seam. Coal from the rooms has been moved by gra- <br />vity to the haulage room where it was loaded into <br />rail cars, hauled to the slope and discharged in- <br />to the skip for hoisting up the slope to the sur- <br />face. The areal extent of coal removed is shown <br />in Exhibit 2. Colorado Division of Mine records <br />indicate 224,278 tons. <br />