REV101519

• Permit No: C1981022
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 1/29/1997
• Doc Name: RELOCATION OF ADDITIONAL EXISTING FACILITIES
• From: OXBOW CARBON & MINERALS INC SANBORN CREEK MINE
• To: GUNNISON CNTY
• Type & Sequence: TR29
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Steven E. Westbay ol.la.oh u, , ,,,, ,y V 4
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Gunnison County
200 E. Virginia
Gunnison, Colorado 81230
Re: Relocation of Additional Existing Facilities
Dear Steve:
As we discussed by telephone on January 16, and in our previous
conversations, Oxbow Carbon and Minerals, Inc., Sanborn Creek Mine
is in the process of preparing for modification of the current
mining system and surface facilities. We are currently in the
process of requesting bids for a longwall mining system and the
required surface coal handling modification.
Relocation of the office, shop, and warehouse was approved by
Gunnison County and Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology last
summer and fall. We did not receive the approval by DMG in time to
start construction in the fall, but plan to do so, as soon as
weather allows, this spring.
Relocation of additional existing facilities, also as soon as
possible, would help prepare the site for construction planned for
the surface coal handling modifications. Site preparation items
that must occur early in the schedule would include relocation of
the substation, relocation of the DMEA 46kv power line, relocation
of the explosives magazines, and replacement of the 42-inch, 500-
feet-per-minute belt.
The new substation would be south of the existing office. The new
power line would be routed farther up the hill on each side of the
Elk Creek Canyon to provide additional safety clearance across the
facilities area. The new explosives magazines would be father up
Elk Creek Canyon, which would be farther away from public access.
We have received approval from the Army Corps of Engineers for
extension of the Elk Creek culvert, and we could begin site
preparation earthwork in the Elk Creek Coal Stockpile area, at
least to the extent approved by Gunnison County Land Use Change
1991-37 and Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology TR-09. We
would also like to begin replacement of the existing overland
conveyor from the Sanborn Creek Mine portals. The replacement of
the conveyor would consist of a 48-inch, 750-feet-per-minute belt
in the currently approved location.
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