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(SMF288) contained ar.tifacta and lithic (stone;) debris. These materials were <br />scattered in the vicinity of a natural spring which had been impounded as a stock <br />watering pond. A buried fire hearth was also found protruding from .a small <br />arroyo a short distance above the stock watering tanks. <br />The second recorded site (SMF290) consisted of a pictograph and possible camp- <br />site. This site contained a single pictograph, two possible awl sharpening <br />grooves, and burned rock under a sandstone overhang. <br />These sites did not consititu[e a significant archaeologi'ca1 resource. Breter- <br />nitz concluded that the mining operation per se "does not endanger any scientifi- <br />cally or culturally valuable anthropological localities," and recommended no fur- <br />[her investigation into these two sites. The location of these archaeological <br />sites were recorded with the University of Colorado Museum Archaeological Survey <br />and material collected in the field was deposited with this institution. <br />• This survey was accepted Eor compliance purposes by the Craig District Office- <br />Bureau of Land Management (see correspondence from C. Levitt, BLM to B. Diede- <br />rich, Utah International in Appendix K). <br />A survey of portions of Che proposed mine plan area by C. Arthur in 1977 did not <br />discover any archaeological sites (see Section 2.9.2 for results of a recorded <br />historic site, SMF348). <br />Williams (1977) recorded an archaeological site (MF475) with scattered waste <br />flakes and one projectile point. No further work was recommended for [he site. <br />The survey has been accepted by [he Craig District Bureau of Land Management <br />(refer to Appendix R). Moreover, the site is outside of the proposed. .mine plan <br />area. <br />During the summer of 1980, at the request of Utah International Inc.'s Trapper <br />Hine, Archeological Services of Laramie, Wyoming, conducted a Class III cultural <br />resource survey of Trapper Mines proposed mine plan area and adjacent areas that <br />. had not previously been surveyed. A total of five prehistoric sites, one his- <br />toric site (see Section 2.9.2), and eighteen isolated finds were recorded (see <br />2-589 <br />