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• ~ EXHIBIT D <br />MINING PLAN AND TIMETABLE <br />LOCATION <br />This permit area is located approximately 6.5 miles north- <br />east of Beulah, Colorado, and is reached by traveling north on <br />Siloam Road eight miles to the entrance road. The permit area is <br />in the SW~SE~, NW~SE~I, NE~iSW~, and SE~NW~ and part of the NW~NE~, <br />SEIaSW~, SW~ISW~, NW~SW~, NE~NW~, SW~NW~I, and NW~INW~ of Section 36, <br />T.215., R.68W., 6th P.M., Pueblo County, Colorado. MAPEXHIBIT-B- <br />VICINITY MAP is an excerpt from the owl Canyon Quad (USGS) showing <br />the property configuration and the surrounding geographic fea- <br />tures. MAPEXHIBIT-B1 is an index map copied from a State Highway <br />Department Map showing its location in southeast Colorado. <br />There are 323.69 acres ± in the permit outline shown on the <br />AFFECTED LANDS -MAP EXH181T C. The permit area covers a large area of <br />land that contains surface and subsurface stone that is fairly <br />common on the land between Florence, CO. and Beulah, CO. The <br />site elevation is approximately 5800 feet, sea level datum. <br />HISTORY <br />Mining began on this site in 1959 when Harbison-Walker <br />Refractories Corp. leased 160 acres of Section 36 (W~SE~ and <br />E~SSW~) from the State Land Board (lease # 2274/16). This lease <br />was to mine the clay they found while doing exploration work <br />across the west side of Pueblo County. The original mine opened <br />in the south central part of the leased area in the area shown as <br />PRE-LAW DISTURBANCE area on the maps. in 1968, Colorado Refract- <br />ories Corp. (CRC) purchased Harbison-Walkers Canon City operation <br />(then owned by Dresser Industries) and was assigned the clay <br />lease in 1972. In 1972, CRC leased the minerals on 640 acres in <br />Section 36 that included the decorative rock, building stone, <br />rip-rap, ballast, and road metal covering the surface and subsur- <br />face (lease # 2479/165). This lease was revised and extended in <br />1983 and under a new number, 3038/165. <br />In 1977 Colorado Refractories obtained a mining permit for a <br />Limited Impact operation known as the Siloam Mine (M-77-326). <br />This permit covered 9.9 acres of the 160 acres, or the site where <br />active clay mining operations were taking place and included area <br />for future mine expansion. Since mining began in 1958, approxi- <br />mately 6.61 acres was designated PRE-LAW DISTURBANCE area that <br />did not need reclamation if it was not redisturbed. The PRE-LAW <br />4 <br />