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MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID #: M-900 1 -068 <br />INSPECTION DATE: i nIn77/1LR INSPECTOR=S INITIALS: 11F <br />- <br />OBSERVATIONS <br />This was a normal monitoring, inspection of the Bottomless Pit; permit number M-2001-068. This site is located approximately, ten <br />miles north east of• Trinidad, Colorado in Las Animas County, along Highway 160. I, Jared Ebert of the Colorado Division of <br />Reclamation, Mining and Safety conducted the inspection. Mr. Brent Tamburelli of Tamrock Gravel accompanied me on the <br />inspection. <br />'This is a 327.50 acres site that was permitted to be mined in nine phases, each phase is anywhere between 5-14 acres. Reclamation is <br />to be concurrent with mining as the operating proceeds through the phases. 'flhe post mine land use for this site is designated as <br />rangeland. File entire site was driven and each of the permit boundary markers was located. <br />At the time of the inspection, mining in phase one has been complete and the site was in the reclamation phase. A haul road rums <br />throw h phase one. The remainder of this phase had been graded, topsoiled and seeded. The vegetation has not really begun to <br />establish. The primary plant species growing in phase one is Russian thistle and other weeds. Overall, phase one appeared to the <br />stable. <br />Mining in phase two has also been completed, the operator is in the process of grading, the area. 'T'opsoil had been spread in the <br />majority of this phase. The current mining activity is located in phases three and four. Topsoil has been stripped in these areas and <br />placed along the eastern and southern boundary of phase three. According, to Mr. 'I'amburclli, the topsoil is generally re-distributed <br />over a graded area within one year after it has been stripped, so no vegetation has been established on the topsoil piles at this time. <br />'T'he operator is reminded that if the topsoil piles area not re-spread in a time short enough to limit topsoil deterioration, the current <br />approved reclamation plan states that the topsoil piles will be seeded with wheat grasses that when established, will protect the piles <br />front wind and water erosion. The current pit excavation in phase three and four appears to be 10 to 15 feet deep. <br />No problems were observed at the site at the time of the inspection. <br />L <br />Alk- <br />At .49, <br />I uumcJ1.) %,ic\\ ol'Phase 1. 1 ookin- area has been <br />graded, topsoiled and seeded. Sparse vegetation at this time, <br />primarily weed species established. <br />Figurc 2.) Topsoil storage pile oil western edge of