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October 2, 2012 C-1981-008/New Horizon Mine MLT <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 3 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 1 Page 2 of 11 <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 />R - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />N - Explosives <br />R - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />R - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br /> <br />N - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />R - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />NA - Slides and Other Damage <br />Y - Support Facilities On-site <br />N - Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On-site <br />R - Special Categories Of Mining <br />R - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />An aerial inspection of the New Horizon Mine was conducted on Tuesday, October 2, 2012. <br />Photographs were taken by Harry Ranney and analyzed/annotated by Marcia Talvitie, both of the <br />Division. Skies were clear at the time of the inspection, and ground conditions appeared to be <br />dry. <br /> <br />BACKFILL and GRADING – Rule 4.14 <br />Contemporaneous Reclamation 4.14.1; Approximate Original Contour 4.14.2; Highwall <br />Elimination 4.14.1(2)(f); Steep Slopes 4.14.2, 4.27; Handling of Acid and Toxic Materials <br />4.14.3; Stabilization of Rills and Gullies 4.14.6: <br /> On the WFC parcel, a bulldozer and loader were operating in the pit, loading blasted <br />overburden into haul trucks for transport to the trailing side of the pit. Photos show the <br />overburden being dumped as backfill. <br /> A stockpile of Bench 1 material has been constructed behind the active pit for use in final <br />reclamation. <br /> It does not appear that any additional material has been hauled from the box-cut overburden <br />stockpile for use as backfill in the western part of the permit area. <br /> On the Morgan parcel, WFC has made progress on backfilling the southern portion of the <br />final pit. It appears that “Bench 2” overburden has been dozer-pushed from the east into the <br />pit, displacing the water that had accumulated there. <br /> <br />FISH and WILDLIFE – Rule 4.18: <br /> Perhaps one hundred waterfowl, of unknown variety, were gathered on the surface of the <br />northern part of Pond 007.