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soils to be reclaimed and imported during the 8 mining phases are tabulated in (Table <br />C1) (Map E3). <br />The 2013 Phase 1 mining cycle (Map E4) will require the removal of overburden from an <br />area 100 feet in width by 100 feet in length. This area is part of the previously disturbed <br />acreage so no top soil will be salvaged from the 2013 mine area. The amount of <br />overburden that will be moved to expose the 2013 mine zone is 3,206 cubic yards in <br />place before removal, but after breaking and removal the overburden will occupy <br />approximately 5,770 cubic yards of space and is equivalent to 5,200 ton of rock. The <br />5,770 cubic yards of overburden removed from the area to be mined in 2013 and 2,129 <br />cubic yards of overburden recovered from the previously disturbed area and 848 cubic <br />yards of broken overburden removed to return the drainage channel to its original <br />elevation and slope will be placed to the south of the 2013 mining area as fill and will be <br />contoured for the area being reclaimed during 2013. After removal of the overburden an <br />area 60 feet in length by 60 feet in width will be drilled to a depth of 40 feet with 3 inch <br />diameter holes on a rectangular 4 foot pattern. The drilled holes will be charged with <br />ANFO and delay timed shock tube detonators and blasted to produce 8,600 ton of <br />material which will be loaded onto trucks and hauled off site to the Research and <br />Development Facility for crushing and testing. After removal of the rubblized material <br />from the 2013 mine area, efforts will be directed to furthering the reclamation of the <br />southeastern portion of the affected land and preparing for the 2014 mining cycle. The <br />woody vegetation and top soil from an area of 24,000 square feet which covers all of the <br />overburden removal area for areas to be mined in 2015, 2016, 2017 and a portion of the <br />overburden removal area for the 2014 mine area will be removed and used as <br />vegetative cover for the area on the southern portion of the affected land being <br />reclaimed in 2013. After removal and transfer of the top soil, overburden from the area <br />to mined in 2014 Phase 2 mining cycle (Map E5) will be removed. 5,238 cubic yards of in <br />place overburden will be removed from an area 100 feet in length by 100 feet in width <br />and will generate 9,429 cubic yards of broken overburden which is equivalent to 8,500 <br />tons. 5,333 cubic yards of broken overburden will be placed into the 60 foot by 60 foot <br />by 40 foot 2013 mined area and the remaining 5082 cubic yards of broken overburden <br />will be moved to the previously disturbed area to the southeast of the northwesterly <br />mining advance where it will be placed adjacent to the 2013 reclaimed area and <br />contoured for future reclamation.To provide for storm water control during the mining <br />advance a diversion ditch will be constructed up slope and to the general northeast of <br />the active mining area and diverted to the main drainage at a point south east of the <br />active mine area and northwest of the area being reclaimed. The upslope storm water <br />diversion ditch will be extended to the northwest with each top soil and overburden <br />removal step to intercept runoff (Map E4, Map E8). <br />3 <br />