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RECElVEl~ <br />JUN 0 0 2003 <br />Recommendations <br />Division ~f Minerals and Geolo9Y <br />After doing this study, several recommendations can be made regarding future operations <br />and overcoming the current difficulties. This is not to say that these recommendations are the <br />only feasible options available. Others are certainly available. But whatever path is chosen, it <br />should be recognized that interference between these two plans will always be a possibility. It is <br />difficult to not have that happen considering the complexity of both plans. Whenever <br />adjustments aze made in what is occurring on the ground, full consideration of those adjustments <br />on future work needs to be incorporated into the decision making process. <br />Most important, it needs to be recognized that, from a permit standpoint, there are really <br />two mining plans governing this operation. If one is implemented without reference to its impact <br />on the other then problems are likely to develop. Furthermore, the final reclamation topography <br />and condition must ultimately be created. Exactly how one goes about creating it is an area with <br />some permit flexibility, but that final reclamation product must always be the guiding image. <br />Any actions that compromise accomplishing that final reclamation product will very likely create <br />severe public image and legal problems in the future. <br />1. All current work on the layback should cease for a while. The production of the large talus <br />slope pouring down the face of the quarry has essentially divided the quarry into two parts that <br />restricts operations. <br />2. In the bottom of the cove on the south end of the quarry, another 30 to 50 feet of rock <br />should be removed as far north as the south edge of Area H as shown on Map 4. Once that is <br />completed, no further excavation should occur in that area. <br />3. Once the work in item 2 is completed, as much of the layback material that is contained in <br />the talus slope as is reachable should be moved into the completed cove to start the backfilling <br />process. This will also free the area currently occupied by this layback material thereby <br />connecting the north and south ends of the quarry again. <br />4. Mining should then proceed downward in the remaining rock at the base of the backwall. It <br />appears that 75 to 100 feet of limestone should be removed completely across the face of the <br />quarry below the backwall. <br />A. Initially this mining should start along the east side of the remaining block of <br />limestone. This can be a source of limestone until such time as the limestone at the base of the <br />backwall is free of layback material. <br />