_INSPECTION - C1981014 ‎(12)‎

• Permit No: C1981014
• IBM Index Class Name: Inspection
• Doc Name: Inspection Report
• From: DRMS
• To: George Patterson, Energy Fuels Coal, Inc.
• Inspection Date: 1/23/2013
• Email Name: JHB
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

January 23, 2013 C-1981-014/Southfield Mine JHB
Inspection Topic Summary
NOTE: Y=Inspected N=Not Inspected R=Comments Noted V=Violation Issued NA=Not Applicable
N -Air Resource Protection R -Roads
N -Availability of Records R -Reclamation Success
N -Backfill& Grading N -Revegetation
N -Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste N - Subsidence
N -Explosives N - Slides and Other Damage
N -Fish& Wildlife N - Support Facilities On-site
V -Hydrologic Balance N - Signs and Markers
R -Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan N - Support Facilities Not On-site
N -Other N - Special Categories Of Mining
N -Processing Waste R -Topsoil
COMMENTS
This was a partial inspection conducted by Janet Binns and Dan Hernandez of Colorado Division of Reclamation
Mining and Safety. The focus of the inspection was to verify if monitoring well MW-NW remained blocked.
The weather was warm, dry and calm.
Mr. George Patterson joined the inspection at 12:15 pm as the inspectors were packing up the borehole camera
that was used to document the condition of the well.
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 Ground Water Monitoring 4.05.13; 4.05.8; Impoundments 4.05.6,4.05.9;
The Division used a borehole camera to observe the condition of MW-NW. The depth counter was calibrated to
zero at the top of the steel casing. The top of the steel casing is 1.2 feet above the ground surface. The camera
showed that the steel casing is intact. At 352.25 feet below the top of the casing the camera encountered a
blockage in the borehole. This blockage does not appear changed from observations made during the September
17, 2012 inspection of MW-NW with the borehole camera. The blockage appears to be a wooden block, a short
length of rope and some steel cable beneath the block. The inspector was able to get the camera between one side
of the block and the steel casing. The camera was unable to view open space below the blockage. Monitoring well
MW-NW remains blocked at 352.25 feet below the top of the steel casing. It is unlikely that a water monitoring
probe would be unable to proceed below this elevation in the well in its current state.
The Division removed the camera from the well at this time. Mr. George Patterson arrived on site and joined the
inspectors at the MW-NW location at 12:15pm after the inspectors had removed the camera from the well. The
Division will send a copy of the DVD recording of MW-NW to Mr. Patterson.
Pond 5 was dry. Mr. Patterson discussed final grading of Pond 5,anticipating future reclamation work at such
time that Energy Fuels receives approval for pond removal. Post-mining topography contours is shown on Map
28. Map 28 apparently shows the embankment roadway to the GEC gate as remaining. Map 28 indicates that the
Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 5
Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 2
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