2001-03-22_REPORT - M1977573

• Permit No: M1977573
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 3/22/2001
• Doc Name: Annual Fee/Report Notice
• Permit Index Doc Type: ANNUAL FEE / REPORT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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2001 Annual Report
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Anniversary Date: March 22 Ur~~s~ooo/M~aera~sand~e0fp8Y
Overview of Permit Year: During the 2000/2001 operating year all mining activity occurred on the
north side of the river. The amount of land disturbed in the last year is the same as the previous year. In
the previous year all land had been stripped of vegetation, but overburden remained in many areas. Now
all overburden has been removed and stockpiled.
The Salty Soil Remedial Program, discussed elsewhere, continued on the east end of the property.
The operation remained much as it had in previous years. In fact, on the west end of the
operation, south of the river, the only change was a reduction in exposed water as a result of continued
siltation from the washing processes.
The bond continued at $343,323.00.
Affected Lands: This operation, containing 296.22 acres, can be divided into many different categories
of affected land. These categories range from extraction to revegetation. For purposes of this report,
affected land means any land disturbed but not released from bond. That is, any land previously
permitted, but released from bond, is not included in the affected land total. The following table
summarizes some of the acreages in broad cacegories.
Acreage Accounting
all three annual re ort maps combined)
Total Affected Land (Bonded) 234.85 acres
Total Water Surface (Bonded) 23.2 acres
Total Soil Replaced (Bonded) 57.45 acres
Total Revegetation in progress 35.75 acres
Revegetation: Revegetation patterns on the Divelbliss ponion of the revegetation area on the east end
of the operation continue to exhibit many of the same patterns as before.
For the Litvak area please refer to the Salty Soil Remedial Program described below.
Consideration is currently underway to develop an irrigation and weed control program to make
a third attempt at revegetating these lands.
Salty Soil Remedial Progrant: It appears that this was a seeding failure and was caused by the factors
discussed in last year's annual repon.
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