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i ~ <br />EL PASO COUNTY <br />110 PERPIIT APPLICATION <br />SEPTEMBER 1980 <br />EXHIBIT B <br />Mining Plan <br />All of E1 Paso County's open pits are existing operations. <br />All but two operations involve removal of material from an existing <br />escarpment. <br />The other two operations involve the enlargement of existing stock <br />watering ponds. <br />The typical operation plan calls for removal of the top soil and <br />stock piling` of same on the upper portion of the escarpment with a <br />frontend loader. The edge of the escarl>went is then cut down with <br />tl~e material pushed to the toe of the slope for loading into trucks. <br />The slope is generally at a 3:1~s1ope during operations. The working <br />face of the operation will progress across the escarpment for the <br />extent of the deposit then another slope cut is made into the es- <br />carpment. <br />The two stock ponds are an enlargement of t}ie depression behind <br />the retention bank and involves both lowering and enlarging the <br />area of the collection basin. The top soil is stockpiled above <br />the stock pond and can be reclaimed if it wastes into the basin <br />before being replaced. <br />All operations involve a front end loader and occasionally a bull- <br />dozer for stripping and trucks to haul away the material. <br />Because of the limited amount of equipment only two pits are <br />operating simultaneously. <br />The majority of pits are used for limited periods and generally <br />only two or three times a year. <br />The material is used for routine maintenance of tl~e over 2,000 <br />miles of rural roads in E1 Paso County. <br />The attached U. S. G. S. topo maps show the contours of the pit <br />and the general area being mined. <br />