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January 11, 2012 C -1981 -008 /New Horizon Mine MLT <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 6 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 2 Page 2 of 5 <br /> <br /> <br />Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y =Inspected N =Not Inspected R =Comments Noted <br /> V =Violation Issued NA =Not Applicable <br />N - Air Resource Protection <br />N - Availability of Records <br />Y - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />R - Explosives <br />Y - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />R - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />R - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br /> <br />Y - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />R - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />NA - Slides and Other Damage <br />Y - Support Facilities On -site <br />Y - Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On -site <br />Y - Special Categories Of Mining <br />N - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br /> <br />This was a partial inspec t ion of the New Horizon Mine conducted by Marcia Talvitie of the <br />Division on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. Skies were clear, and temperatures were chilly due to a <br />light breeze that was blowing. Ross Gubka represented the operator, Western Fuels - Colorado, <br />during the inspe ction. <br />During a recent inspection, Mr. Gubka had mentioned that the Lloyd parcel, located west of 2700 <br />Road and north of BB Road, was up for sale. WFC has now purchased the property , together <br />with the 24 shares of water the Lloyd family owned. The compan y ha s not yet determined <br />whether it will request a change to the approved post -m ining land use for this parcel . <br /> <br />PERMITTING UPDATE: <br />TR -62: WFC is in the process of preparing an application to incorporate “as -sampled” soils <br />information into the permit, ref lecting the soil sampling conducted on the Morgan property under <br />the plan approved with TR -61. <br />SL -12: Mr. Gubka said WFC has contacted Dave Buckner for assistance in responding to the <br />Division’s adequacy review comments on this bond release application. <br /> <br />EXPLOSIVES – Rule 4.08 <br />Distance Prohibitions 4.08.4; Warnings 4.08.4; Control of Adverse Effects 4.08.4: <br /> The drill rig was set up on Bench 2 overburden on Morgan property. Holes were 38 feet <br />deep, and loaded in two decks due to the proximity of the P. Ens trom house, to the west. <br /> Mr. Gubka said that WFC is currently placing four seismographs, one for each residential <br />structure (F Morgan, P Enstrom, and N Enstrom (2)). <br />