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~` 2. General Requirements: Site Description and Land Use <br />Information <br />Site Description <br />The Harvey Gap Project is located in West Central Colorado <br />in Garfield County. The main surface facilities area is <br />located approximately 3.5 miles north of Silt, Colorado in <br />the NE 1/4, Section 24, T5S, R92W of the 6th Prime Meridan <br />(see Location Map HGP-5). <br />The area is accessible from Silt, north, via Garfield County <br />Road 237. <br />The largest structural basin located in Northwestern <br />Colorado is the Piceance Basin. One of the more prominent <br />structural features of the Piceance Basin is the Grand <br />HogbacK (Collins 1976>. <br />The mining operation is located on the Grand Hogback. <br />Structural relief of the Grand Hogback is greatest between <br />the New Castle area to Rio Blanco: in this stretch, <br />topographic relief commonly approaches and exceeds 2,000 <br />feet (Collins 1976). The general topography in the vicinity <br />of the exploration area ranges from 7800 feet down to b400 <br />feet. The slopes range between 30% to 50%. The main <br />feature in the area is Harvey Gap. This is an erosional <br />feature which cuts completely through the Grand HogbacK. <br />Smaller drainages occur on both sides of Harvey Gap but do <br />not cut completely through the Grand HogbacK. The entire <br />area is extremely steep with some of the resistant <br />sandstones forming dip slopes over the area. The Grand <br />Hogback trends in an east-west direction with the drainages <br />trending north-south. <br />The previously disturbed surface areas at the mining site <br />are in a transitional zone between the alluvial fill and the <br />steep slopes forming the Grand Hogback. Slopes within the <br />mining site range between ten percent C10%) to fifty percent <br />(50%). The topography of the area lends itself to very <br />abrupt changes in slope. <br />Land Use <br />The pre-mining land uses of the permit area are miring and <br />undeveloped land. Active mining, on an intermittant basis, <br />has occurred in the Harvey Gap area from the late 1800's <br />until 1979 (conversation with Louis Bendetti). The last <br />mine to operate in the area was the Eastside Mine operated <br />by Louis Bendetti A large market was never developed for <br />19 Revised 5/87 <br />