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The Cash mine dump has a total tonnage of approximately <br />_ 150,000 tons of material. Sampling has shown that by sorting <br />and simple upgrading, at least 60,000 tons of this waste dump <br />material can be raised to an ore grade. Dump production will <br />commence on the north-eastern portion of the Cash mine dump <br />z near the ore bin, and proceed south along the eastern face of <br />the dump. At the completion of the dump sorting and upgrading <br />operation, the Cash mine dump will be approximately 908 smal- <br />ler in size. A small front-end loader and dump truck will be <br />used to rework the Cash mine dump. <br />Mine production is based on an eight-man mine crew and a two- <br />man crew on the Cash Dump. This will result in the production <br />of 9,000 tons of ore and 6,000 tons of dump material per year <br />at 30 and 20 tons per day, respectively. D]ith the ore re- <br />serves currently available in and on the surface of the Cash <br />mine, the operation and production are expected to extend <br />through 1988. In the event that additional ore reserves are <br />developed at depth, or along the western extension of the Cash <br />vein, the Cash mine could be in production through 1992. <br />Once the necessary permits have been obtained, the reactiva- <br />tion of the Cash mine will commence with the repair and relo- <br />cation of the mine access roads (see Exhibit C1). While both <br />-: of the county roads reach the mine roads at a distance of <br />about 12 miles from Boulder, the best access to the Cash mine <br />is County Road No. 52. This road bypasses the small <br />communities of Crisman, Salina, Summerville and Gold Hill and <br />it allows access to the mine site under all weather <br />conditions. However, the mine access road is narrow and very <br />steep in several places, and it cannot be used to haul ore or <br />heavy equipment up from the mine to the junction with County <br />Road No. 52, In the past, ore trucks would follow the road <br />down from the Cash mine to its junction with County Road No. <br />69, and then proceed up this road to Gold Hi11 where the <br />trucks would turn east onto County Road No. 52 which they took <br />to Boulder. In order to avoid the town of Gold Hill, the mine <br />access road will have to be relocated so that ore trucks can <br />drive up from the Cash mine to the junction of County Road No. <br />52. By constructing several additional switchbacks between <br />the Jonathan mine and the Cash mine, ore trucks and heavily <br />loaded vehicles will be able to use this private road for both <br />ingress and egress. All of the road relocation work will be <br />done on the Gold Hill Mining Company's patented mining claims. <br />No U. S. Bureau of Land Management property will be disturbed <br />or affected by this road relocation work. The amount of <br />surface acreage affected by this road construction is 0.551 <br />acres. <br />Once the outside contracting work has been completed, the <br />daily traffic to the Cash mine site is not expected to exceed <br />seven vehicles. The Boulder County Public Work's Department's <br />_ latest average daily traffic volume count on County Road No. <br />52 at a location approximately one quarter mile east of the <br />town of Gold Hill is 250. Their average daily traffic volume <br />count on County Road No. 89 just south of Gold Hill is 100, <br />and near Salina it is 230. These traffic counts are the ad- <br />justed daily traffic volumes for 1980. <br />Since the Cash mine was connected with power lines during its <br />earlier operation, no land surface will be disturbed when the <br />power is restored. Thieves stole some of the power lines and <br />removed the wire from the transformers during the 1970's, and <br />they will have to be replaced. Once this has been accom- <br />plished and the master switch house has been repaired, power <br />will have been restored to the Cash mine. <br />At the present time, the Cash mine has four small wooden frame <br />buildings located near the mine shaft collar. These include a <br />hoist house, a miners' dry room, and two storage buildings. <br />During the last ten years, these buildings have been repeat- <br />edly broken into and their contents vandalized and stolen. <br />The two storage buildings will have to be repaired and the <br />hoist house enlarged. A 20 x 40 foot metal building is <br />^ planned to house the mine hoist and compressor, The construc- <br />tion of this building will have the added advantage of <br />-3- <br />