Activities near German Creek will be limited to a road 

 and a freshwater pipeline. The operation will require 1.0 

 cfs from the creek, which is about 15 percent of low flow. 

 Although there is some moisture perched in the subsoil, the 

 site as a whole is fairly dry (Pegasus' most productive well 

 yields only eight gpm) . 



The expected life of the mine is ten years, but the area 

 has not been completely explored. The total resource is 11.8 

 million tons of ore, with 8.7 million tons of mineable 

 reserve. Average annual gold and silver production are 

 expected to be 33,000 and 25,000 troy ounces, respectively. 

 The operation would be seasonal (March to October or Novem- 

 ber) and would employ approximately 65 people. Every attempt 

 would be made to hire locally and to use local suppliers. 



Extensive baseline environmental data were collected by 

 Montoro, and Pegasus has collected additional data on ground 

 water, cultural resources, wildlife, and air quality that are 

 included in the permit application. 



Cable Mountain Mine. Inc. 



Cable Mountain Mine, Inc. , submitted an application to 

 the Montana Department of State Lands in February 1988 for a 

 placer gold mine about 12 miles west of Anaconda. The mine 

 is in the Cable Creek area of the Flint Creek Range, near the 

 historic Cable Mine. The mine permit boundary encloses about 

 94 acres with a disturbance area of about 51 acres (Cable 

 Mountain Mine, Inc. 1988) . 



The company received a permit from DSL in July 1988. It 

 is currently in the development phase and recently submitted 

 amendments to the mine plan. The operation will employ 13 

 people to mine and process approximately 1.8 million tons of 

 gold-bearing sand and gravel over a three-year mine life, and 

 to reprocess about 18,000 tons of existing stamp mill 

 tailings. The design mining rate is 3,000 cubic yards/day, 

 and the operation will utilize standard hydraulic/gravity 

 separation methods for placer gold recovery. Coarse waste 

 rock will be placed on a waste dump or backfilled in the pit. 

 Fine tailings material will be routed to a settling pond. 

 About 2,000 gpm of process water will be required to operate 

 the plant. This water would be derived from pit inflow, adit 

 discharge, and if needed, dewatering wells (Cable Mountain 

 Mine, Inc. 1988) . 



The mine site and historically disturbed areas will be 

 reclaimed to provide erosion control and stabilization. All 

 disturbed areas will be recontoured, regraded, and planted 

 with trees and shrubs. The final open cut will be left as a 

 small lake. 



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