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<br />NEW MINE <br />Minor: <br />- Original exploration roads and 2.75 ac. <br />drillsites (backfilled, graded and reseeded). <br />- Former gypsum fines storage <br />area at mine entrance (fines <br />removed, area topsoiled and <br />reseeded). Former stockpile <br />area at mine entrance <br />(topsoiled and reseeded). <br />- Sections of former pioneer <br />haulroad to active mine area <br />(backfilled, topsoiled and <br />reseeded) <br />- Depleted slope in active <br />mine area (topsoiled and <br />reseeded). <br />Moderate: <br />- Haulroad to active mining area. <br />- Topsoil storage and staging <br />areas. <br />- Stockpile and processing area. <br />Major: <br />- Area of active mining in 1993 <br />- Waste rock area. <br />1.84 ac. <br />.34 ac. <br />.68 ac. <br />Subtotals <br />5.61 ac. <br />3.21 ac. <br />3_80 ac. <br />5.70 ac. 12.71 ac. <br />15.15 ac. <br />2.29 ac. 17.44 ac. <br />Total Affected Area as of 12-93 ------------ - 35.76 ac. <br />Total Affected Area as of 12-92 ----------- - 22.21 ac. <br />Additional Affected Area in 1993 Operation - - 13.55 ac. <br />Active mining continued at the new mine during 1992. <br />Additional clearing and topsoil stripping was required to <br />accommodate advance of the active mining area and waste rock <br />stockpile area. Reclamation was accomplished on two sections <br />of former pioneer roadcut along the main haulroad to the <br />-2- <br />