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• • iii iiiiiiiiiiiuiii <br />~.: <br />sl ~ E~IIBIT <br />SOIL 1tr:SOUHi;E INFOfU1ATION <br />SOILS <br />The soils of ttre Blue Flame Coal Kline permit area have been <br />mostly rc3roved by grading and construction work. Coal and waste rock <br />have been mixed into or replaced the original soils on the mine bernh. <br />ldo top soil has been saved or stored from the disturbed mining bench. <br />lbal mining operations gave been ongoing here for well over thirty <br />years. No thought for saving the original soils was made. However, the <br />land surrounding the approximately 3.00 disturbed acres has renained <br />. relatively untouched with the original soils intact. Soils of these <br /> areas leave been surveyed and delineated into three soil rrrlpping units. <br />'IV~o of the three tuiits are soil series while the ruining unit ~ a <br />complex. <br />'Phe Soil (bnservation Service Y~ts mapped and recorded site- <br />shociiic data on the physical and chr~nical properties of these soils. <br />The soil types are shown on heap C-Ei and also on the accompanying photo <br />of tl~e mine site. <br />SDIL tAAPi'ING UNIT DESCkIF~lIONS <br />XhIC~F-Lazear-hock Outcrop Complex, 12 to Ei5 1'ex~ent Slopes <br />This complex consists of a shallow, well-drained soil on <br />sandstuue breaks of moderately steep to steep upland mesas, and areas <br /> <br />