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Permittee Name: wood Brick and Tile Co. • Page 2 Permit No: M-79-045 Operation Name: Church Pit Anniversary Date: 02128197 (1) Clay - No new area was disturbed by the clay mining opera- tion this year. We continued to mine deeper on the land previously disturbed (yellow) , including the area stripped of gravel (dark blue) . Approximately 19.42 acres is dis- turbed by the clay operation in Stages O, I and II. This included the old clay mined area (aqua) on the south and the Clay Plant site (pink) . The clay face was advanced to the north into the area mined by the gravel operation again this year. Material that is not usable by the clay operation was stockpiled along the west side. This material will be used later to create the slopes into the bottom of the mine (brown) . Gravel - Coal Creek Sand and Gravel mined the gravel under a lease with the mineral right owners this year. A total of 11. 94 acres has been stripped in Stage A to prepare it for mining (orange) . The material stripped was placed in the northeast part of Stage A (brown) . Mining continued Stage A on the area west of the road. Part of the old overburden pile was removed and processed (dark blue) . This material was blended with some material removed from the stripped area (orange) to created the product Coal Creek needed. The current gravel operation has disturbed 21.80 acres ± in the mine. (2) No reclamation was required this year. None will be re- quired until mining for both materials is completed in any given stage. Coal Creek continued to remove part of prelaw overburden pile on the southwest side of the facility this year. In addition, they began to fill the north slope of the old clay pit to establish the slope into the excavation area and creating a 0.43 acre bench along that part of the excavation (green) . The area in Stage B that was refilled last year was seeded and grasses are beginning to grow. A 350-foot section of sloping is complete on the north end of Stage II from the top of the gravel to the top of the clay vein. All areas partially reclaimed are colored green. We began installing the sight berm along the west side of the facility as required in the county plan this year (brown) . (3) Clay - Mining will continue in Stage I or Stage II, no new area will be disturbed this year because we are mining in the area stripped by the sand and gravel operator. We will mine deeper into the clay veins exposed in the past and advance the face to the north as approved in the reclamation plan. Processing will continue in the Clay Plant Site Area in Stage 0 (pink) . Gravel - Mining/stripping will continue in Stage A this year. Coal Creek will continue to remove the prelaw over- burden piles as needed and mine in the stripped area.