State of Colorado Department of Natural Resources

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State of Colorado Department of Natural
Resources
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Division Programs

• Coal Regulatory Program
• Minerals Regulatory Program
• Abandoned Mine Program
• Mine Safety Training Program
• Colorado Geological Survey

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Coal Regulatory Program

• Permitting and inspection of active coal mines in
  south western Colorado
• Contact Durango Field Office for more info

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Minerals Regulatory Program

• Permitting and inspection of active minerals
  mines in southwestern Colorado
• Contact Durango Field Office for more info

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Abandoned Mine Program

• Abandoned Mine Inventory
• Hazard Abatement
• Water Quality
• Mine Waste
• Historical Cultural

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Abandoned Mine Inventory andHazard Abatement

• Over 300 hazardous and dangerous mine openings
  are safeguarded each year statewide.
• Mine closure projects are currently underway and
  ongoing each year in mining districts throughout
  the San Juan Region

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Water Quality

• Non Point Source Program- EPA Funded through
  Federal Clean Water Act.
• CDMG previously sponsored numerous mine site
  reclamation projects, and water-shed
  characterization research.
• CDMG currently provides technical assistance and
  reclamation project execution and management
  services to watershed stakeholder groups for
  characterization and reclamation projects,
  through interagency MOUs, funded through NPS
  grants directly to the watershed group

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Mine Waste

• CDMG 1980 state-wide inventory
• Focused characterization of mine waste rock and
  tailings in selected mining-impacted watersheds
• Mine waste characterization is associated with
  priority NPS water-quality improvement project
  areas

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San Juan Water Quality Characterization Projects

• Ophir/Howards Fork- San Miguel Co. -Stream WQ
  characterization
• Mineral Creek, San Juan Co. - Mine site
  characterization, targeting, and stream water
  quality characterization
• Cement Creek, San Juan Co.-Mine site
  characterization, targeting, and stream water
  quality characterization

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San Juan Water Quality Characterization Projects
cont.

• Animas River and watersheds above Eureka, San
  Juan Co.-Mine site characterization, targeting,
  and stream water quality characterization
• Animas River and watersheds from Eureka to Canyon
  below Silverton, San Juan Co.- Mine site
  characterization, targeting, and stream water
  quality characterization

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San Juan Water Quality Characterization Projects
cont.

• Williow Creek Watershed,Creede, Mineral Co.- CDMG
  assisting local stakeholders group with Mine site
  characterization, targeting, and stream water
  quality characterization.
• Commodore V Mine, Creede, Mineral Co.- Deep
  groundwater source controls investigation and
  underground inflow controls reconnaissance

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San Juan Mine Water-Quality Reclamation Projects

• Boston Coal Mine, La Plata Co.- Demonstration
  acid mine drainage treatment wetlands
• Joe and Johns Mine, San Juan Co.- Reopened and
  stabilized portal for cooperative BLM AMD
  treatment project
• Galena Queen Mine, San Juan Co.- Upland diversion
  and storm-water controls on mine waste piles

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San Juan Mine Water-Quality Reclamation Projects
cont.

• Mineral Creek/ Carbon Lakes, San Juan Co. Mine
  waste-dump removal and wetlands restoration
• Kansas City Mines, San Juan Co.- Mine waste dump
  reclamation
• Bonner Mine, San Juan Co.- Mine waste dump
  reclamation and storm water controls

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San Juan Mine Water-Quality Reclamation Projects
cont

• Belcher Gulch/ Northstar Mine, San Juan Co.- Mine
  dump reclamation and stream diversion,
  infiltration controls investigation
• Infiltration Controls Demonstration, San Juan
  Co.- Underground source controls demonstration
  project, Vermillion, Lucky Jack, and Northstar
  mines.

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Historical/Cultural

• Historical and cultural values for all mine
  reclamation projects are evaluated in
  consultation with the State Historical
  Preservation Office, and receive NEPA clearance
  where required.
• Mine closures designed to enhance and stabilize
  historic structures where ever possible
• Old Hundred Restoration and stabilization project
  completed cooperatively with San Juan County
  Historical Society in 1999, using State
  Historical Preservation fund grants.

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Mine Safety Training Program

• Provides technical training for
• reclamation contractors
• stakeholder groups doing underground source
  control projects.
• Volunteers doing work on or near mining sites

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Colorado Geological Survey

• Geologic Mapping Program underway on northern
  edge of the San Juan Basin
• Avalanche Information and research program
• Silverton Avalanche Office
• Wolf Creek Avalanche Office
• Environmental Geology Section
• AML and Water Quality inventory and
  investigations for US Forest Service lands
• Geologic Hazards evaluations for local governments

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Partners

• Colorado Water Quality Control Division
• Animas River Stakeholders Group
• Creede, Willow Creek Reclamation Committee
• EPA Region VIII
• US Geological Survey
• BLM
• USFS

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Contacts

• Denver Office-Bruce Stover or Jim Herron, 1313
  Sherman St. Suite 215, Denver CO 80203
  Ph303.866.3567
• Durango Field Office- Tom Gillis, 701 Camino Del
  Rio, Rm 125, Durango CO, 81301 Ph 970.247.5523
• Grand Junction Field Office- Paul Krabacher,
  970.248.7253
• Colorado Geological Survey- 303.866.2611

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WEBSITES

• Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology
• http//mining.state.co.us
• Colorado Geological Survey
• www.dnr.state.co.us/geosurvy

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