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<br />e. This will be an open gravel pit operation, with our main commodity being road <br />base. This gravel pit will be approximately 9.98 acres, and located <br />approximately 10 miles Northeast of Walsenburg, Colorado, which is to the east <br />of a county road. <br />The initial preparation of the surface before extraction of the sand and gravel will <br />consist of stripping the vegetation and topsoil and placing it in stockpiles for use <br />later during reclamation. Front-end loaders, scrapers, and motor graders may be <br />employed for this phase. <br />The next phase after removal of the vegetation and topsoil is the extraction of <br />the resource (sand and gravel), which will be accomplished with front-end <br />loaders, dozers, scrapers, backhoe excavators, draglines, or any surface mining <br />type of equipment that is economically feasible for this site. <br />As explained above, this is an open pit surface mine, and mining and <br />construction equipment design for this task will be used for earthmoving and <br />transporting both on site and trucking off site. <br />All earthmoving will be done with machinery designed for the job, e.g. Dozer, <br />front-end loaders, scrapers, excavators, etc. <br />No water diversions or impoundments are planned for this project. <br />The size of maximum disturbance will be approximately 9.5 acres at any one <br />time, and will consist of a combination of mining, processing, stockpiling and <br />reclamation. <br />Mining will be done on a continuing program every year as the demand warrants <br />or the deposit is depleted. Therefore, an approximate timetable is that as <br />project in the area need materials, mining will occur. <br />The various stages or phases of the operation will be dictated by market <br />demand. This mine will not be a phased operation, but will be based on a <br />floating bond of 9.5 acres affected any one time. As mining progresses, <br />reclamation will follow. After an area is mined, the backsloping and contouring <br />of the side walls and pit floor will be done, and topsoil spread for seedbed <br />preparation, and as weather permits, planting will be done. All of the <br />reclamation will be accomplished in a timely manner in order to establish the <br />vegetation, and allow the operator/applicant to open more of the pit area for <br />extraction, and maintain the affected area. <br />