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Additional Sheets <br />2002 Annual Report <br />Pueblo West Pit <br />M-1977-573 <br />Transit Mix of Pueblo <br />Anniversary Date: March 22 <br />Overview of Permit Year: During the 2001/2002 operating year all mining activity occurred on the <br />north side of the river. The amount of land disturbed in the last year is the same as the previous year. In <br />the previous year all land had been stripped of vegetation, but overburden remained in many areas. Now <br />all remaining overburden has been stockpiled and is drawn from to do slope reconstruction. Mining <br />activity at this site is in the process of winding down and should conclude in the next year. Future <br />mining activity is shifting to the East Pit east of Pueblo. <br />The Salty Soil Remedial Program, discussed elsewhere, continued on the east end of the property. <br />The rest of the operation remained much as it had in previous years. In fact, on the west end of <br />the operation, south of the river, the only change was a reduction in exposed water as a result of <br />continued siltation from the washing processes. <br />The bond continued at $343,323.00. <br />Affected Lands: This operation, containing 296.22 acres, can be divided into many different categories <br />of affected land. These categories range from extraction to revegetation. For purposes of this report, <br />affected land means any land disturbed but not released from bond. That is, any land previously <br />permitted, but released from bond, is not included in the affected land total. The following table <br />summarizes some of the acreages in broad categories. <br />Acreage Accounting <br />(all three primary annual re ort ma s combined) <br />Total Affected Land (Bonded) 234.85 acres <br />Total Water Surface (Bonded) 21.39 acres <br />Total Soil Replaced (Bonded) 72.7 acres <br />Total Revegetation in progress 35.75 acres <br />Revegetation: Revegetation patterns on the Divelbliss portion of the revegetation area on the east end <br />of the operation continue to exhibit many of the same patterns as before. <br />For the Litvak area please refer to the Salty Soil Remedial Program described below. <br />Development of an irrigation and weed control program is currently underway. In late summer a <br />third attempt at revegetating these lands will begin. <br />Transit Mix of Pueblo 2002 Annual Report M-1977-573 Pueblo West Pit Page 1 of 2 <br />