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• 6.3.1 EXHIBIT A -Legal Description and Location Map <br />(11 Legal Description <br />(a) The Buffalo Stone Quany will be located in the SENW, and NESW of Section 35 <br />Township 30, South, Range 51 West, 6`h P. M, The approximate center of Buffalo Stone <br />Quarry is depicted by latitude and longitude based on position format ofhddd.ddddd, <br />Datum WGS84 <br />N 37.38982 <br />W 103.10521 <br />Please see Attachment 1 on the USGS topographic map for the approximate center of <br />Buffalo Stone Quarry and Attachment 2 for a regional map. <br />The quarry site is located approximately 25 miles northeast of Kim, Colorado, on Las <br />Animas County Road (CR) 223. From Kim take US Hwy 160 toward Springfield. Turn <br />north onto CR 223, for 8 miles to entrance of quarry. Quarry access will be via this existing <br />private road owned by the landowner to access his property from CR 223 as shown in <br />Attachment 1. Minor maintenance will be necessary to keep this private access road in its <br />present passable condition. This private access road will remain after mining is complete. <br />(b) The main entrance to the mine is depicted by latitude and longitude based on <br />position format of hddd.ddddd, Datum WGS 84 <br />N 37.38759 <br />W 103.11131 <br />Please see Attachment 1 for the main entrance to the mine from CR 223. The mine is <br />• located on private (and owned by the Yocams. <br />(2) Main Entrance <br />Please see Attachment 1 with the Main Entrance identified. <br />6.3.2 EXHIBIT B -Site Description <br />The area to be quarried lays on the fairly level prairie on the east edge of Freezeout Creek <br />(which is a dry creek bed). The deposit to be extracted is a slightly inclined limestone bed <br />of varying thickness from the surface to 15 feet and the underlying layer of shale of <br />undetermined depth. There had been some limestone quarried out in the early I920s or <br />1930s. <br />(al Soils and Vegetation <br />The following was taken from information obtained from the local Natural Resources <br />Conservation Service (N.R.C.S.) in Trinidad. Please see Attachment 3, for a copy of the <br />soils map of the azea. <br />The soil types on the quarry site is Penrose loam over most of the site and a small azea <br />on the South corner is Mingwet-Wiley silt loam. The surface layer is a loam from 0 to 4 <br />inches deep. The subsurface layer from 4 to 8 inches deep is silty clay loam. <br />Unweathered bedrock is at a depth from 8 to 60 inches. <br />• Included with this soil in mapping are areas of limestone outcrop, which makes up about <br />