Charles A. Kliche

Responses to comments by Chambers including background, alternative mining methods, ore resources, resource sterilization, and ore grade.

Technical memorandum with review and classification of alternatives to block caving, literature review, review of other pertinent block caving operations world-wide, an estimate of the total tons of potentially mineable material, projection of the tons vs cut-off grade (COG) line to other COGs, and discuss possible realistic alternative mining methods which may be utilized instead of block caving.

Media Point of Contact

Susan Blake
susan.blake@usda.gov

Apache Leap Special Management Area
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