2012-09-07_INSPECTION - C1981014

• Permit No: C1981014
• IBM Index Class Name: Inspection
• Doc Date: 9/7/2012
• Doc Name: Inspection Report
• From: DRMS
• To: George Patterson
• Inspection Date: 8/21/2012
• Email Name: JHB
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

August 21, 2012 C- 1981 - 014 /Southfield Mine JHB
Inspection Topic Summary
NOTE: Y= Inspected N =Not Inspected R= Comments Noted V =Violation Issued NA Applicable
N - Air Resource Protection
N -Availability of Records
Y - Backfill & Grading
NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste
NA - Explosives
Y - Fish & Wildlife
R - Hydrologic Balance
R - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan
NA -Other
R - Processing Waste
R -Roads
Y - Reclamation Success
R - Revegetation
R - Subsidence
Y - Slides and Other Damage
NA - Support Facilities On -site
Y -Signs and Markers
R - Support Facilities Not On -site
NA - Special Categories Of Mining
R - Topsoil
COMMENTS
This was a partial inspection conducted by Janet Binns of CDRMS. The mine is a reclaimed underground mine
with no personnel remaining on site. The inspector had contacted George Patterson of Energy Fuels Coal, Inc. on
the way to the mine site on 8/24/2012. Mr. Patterson met the inspector on site and accompanied the inspection.
The inspection began on 8/21/2012 at the load out. A large storm at the end of July damaged a bridge on State
Highway 67. Highway 67 was closed for repairs on 8/21/2012, so the inspector was unable to access the mine
site. The highway was reopened on 8/24. the inspector conducted the mine site portion of the inspection of
8/24/2012.
The weather was cloudy on 8/24. Clouds were threatening to storm throughout the inspection on 8/24.
Intennittent showers passed through the mine site. There was evidence of sediment in the ditches, pond 5 and
along the access road that a large stone event had occurred previously at the mine site. There are no rain gauges at
the mine site to record precipitation events.
HYDROLOGIC BALANCE - Rule 4.05 Drainage Control 4.05.1, 4.05.2, 4.05.3; Siltation Structures 4.05.5,
4.05.6; Discharge Structures 4.05.7, 4.05.10; Diversions 4.05.4; Effluent Limits 4.05.2; Ground Water
Monitoring 4.05.13; Surface Water Monitoring 4.05.13; Drainage — Acid and Toxic Materials 4.05.8;
Impoundments 4.05.6, 4.05.9; Stream Buffer Zones 4.05.18:
A large sediment fan had been deposited on the access road by the entry gate. Considerable runoff had
flowed down the ditch on the north side of the access road and deposited sediment just west of the access gate.
Some of the flow appeared to have originated from the slope north of the access road, but the larger flow path
appeared to have come from the road ditch.
Walking along the north side access road ditch found the apparent source of much of the sediment is a cut bank
along the road. This section of the cut bank is located west of the locked gate on County Road No. 92, but east of
the limits of the Southfield permit boundary. (within NW 1/4 SE14 Sec 19 T20S R69W). Consulting Map 20;
Drainage and Sediment Control, runoff into this portion of the ditch is from areas undisturbed by the Southfield
Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 2
Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 0
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