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2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION/MINING PLAN <br /> The Climax Mine , its industrial building and process- <br /> ing facilities are located at Climax , Colorado ( elevation <br /> 11 ,318 ft. ) at the summit of Fremont Pass where Colorado State <br /> Highway 91 crosses the Continental Divide . Additional Climax <br /> operations and facilities, including the Storke Level , aggre- <br /> gate mining , tailing deposition, fresh and industrial water <br /> reservoirs and pipelines, and fresh water delivery and runoff <br /> diversion canals, extend below Climax within the drainages of <br /> the East Fork Arkansas River, East Fork Eagle River and South <br /> Fork Tenmile Creek, hereafter referred to as the Arkansas <br /> River, Eagle River and Tenmile Creek ( see Base Map, Appendix F. <br /> and end of Section 2 ) . <br /> Colorado State Highway 91 passes through and connects <br /> the Climax property to the town of Leadville, 13 miles south, <br /> r <br /> and to the town of Frisco, 18 miles north. Climax Molybdenum <br /> Company owns approximately 11 ,000 acres of contiguous land <br /> within the Colorado counties of Eagle , Lake and Summit. Climax <br /> is in the process of obtaining additional lands through <br /> exchange with the United States Forest Service . The exchange <br /> lands are located in the same three counties plus Park County. <br /> The Climax Mine uses open pit mining and a panel cav- <br /> ing system of underground mining to remove molybdenite ore from <br /> the Climax deposit. Current production rates average 48, 000 <br /> tons per day from which conventional crushing and milling cir- <br /> cuits liberate economic minerals for separation, collection and <br /> further concentration. Approximately 6 pounds of mineral <br /> (molybdenum disulfide , tungsten, tin, and pyrite concentrates) <br /> are recovered from each 2, 000 pounds of processed ore. The re- <br /> maining 1994 pounds is a tailing material composed predomin- <br /> ately of silica. The tailing is transported in a water slurry <br /> via tailing delivery pipelines to deposition areas north of the <br /> mine site . The tailing sands and slimes settle out on the <br /> tailing surface and the water is decanted and pumped back to <br /> the mill within the recycle industrial water circuit. <br /> r -- <br /> J <br /> 2-1 <br />