PERMFILE55612

• Permit No: M1977211
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Name: OUTLINE PIKEVIEW QUARRY APPLICATION TO MLRB
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO PiC HARP O.M. G~~emm III IIIIIIIII IIII III
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Harris D. Sherman. Enecutive Director
MIlVED LAND RECLAMATION
423 Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203 Tel. [phone]
Hamlet J. Barry, I I I,
D irector
Outline-Pikeview Quarry Application to MLRB
1. Name of Oration - Pikeview Ouarry
2. Operator - Castle Concrete Company
3. File No. - 77-211
4. Operation type - Quarry aggregate-limestone
5. General location - Two miles northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
6. Affected land-140 acres.
7. History of the Mine -
Most of the area occupied by the Pikeview Quarry was mined in the
1950 & 1960's by other companies. The material was used as the
primary source of aggregate to build the U.S. Air Force Academy.
P,, Mining Plan
a. Tract description -
I. Tract A - this area occupies the major part of the mine
and covers 90% of the previous mined area and will contain
most of the proposed mining.
II. Tract B - Half will be used for mining and the other part
for access.
III. Tract C - ~•lining will be completed in this area at first.
IV. Tract A-1- ldill be used for support facilities and buffer
zone. No mining.
b. Amount of topsoil - All previously mined areas have had the top-
soil and overburden removed. On the other parts of the quarry
it may be less then 3 inches and too steep to be saved. But
l~ihat topsoil and overburden can be saved will be stockpiled.
c. P4ininp Method -
The limestone is drilled and blasted at which time a Eateroiller is
brought into remove the rock to a stockpile where it is loaded
nn trucks and taken to a processing site ~.ahere it is hauled off by
truck when needed.
d. Timetable -
I. Currently in tract C- will continue mining for 20 more years -
24 acres.