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Annual Report- Attachment <br />Currier Gravel Pit <br />M -1980 -203 <br />June 29, 2013 <br />Mesa County, Colorado <br />Permitted acreage is less than 10 acres. <br />No crushing or mining occurred during the report year. <br />Reclamation activity has been performed on approximately 3 acres of land so far. <br />No crushing or mining activity for the next report year. <br />Pit has bottomed out (further mining uneconomic). <br />This gravel pit is on intermittent status. At the time the operation entered IS there was <br />occasional extraction, crushing and stockpile removal. Historically, gravel demand for <br />this remote location comes from Forest Service or Mesa County governments. Also, oil <br />and gas companies need gravel for their well pads and access roads to their drill sites. <br />The last crushing occurred in September 2008 in anticipation of this demand from oil and <br />gas companies. In November of 2008 nearly all oil and gas activity ceased in this area <br />resulting in a stockpile of gravel at the site. The decision has been made to close and <br />reclaim the pit as soon as the existing stockpile is sold and removed. <br />Operator does not believe there will be more than 180 days of activity in the coming <br />report year. Future activity would only be trucking off stockpiled gravel. There was no <br />activity in the past year. Acreage is correctly depicted on the previously submitted map. <br />Legal description on that map is in dispute with the BLM. Weed spraying occurred <br />during the report year. Pit location markers are located annually. There is no exposed <br />groundwater at the pit. Further reclamation will proceed as soon as the remaining <br />stockpile of gravel is sold and removed. <br />Since 2009 the demand from oil and gas companies has been very low. As soon as <br />stockpiled gravel can be sold and removed, reclamation will be completed. No further <br />extraction or crushing or mining will occur. <br />