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2018 San Juan Mining and Reclamation Conference
05/02/2018 - 05/04/2018

Admission

  • $55.00  -  Full Conference, May 3rd-4th. Includes May 4th Field Tour
  • $25.00  -  May 4th Field Tour ONLY

Summary

Join us for May 2-4 in Creede, Colorado for an opening reception, a day-long conference at the Underground Mining Museum and Community Center, and field tours (2 options) on Friday, May 4th.
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Join us in kicking off the conference at a free reception!

Wed., May 2 starting at 5:30PM.

Optional museum tour starts at 4:00PM (additional $10 museum entry fee).

Conference location: Creede's Underground Mining Museum

 

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Field Tour Options:
Summitville Tour: The Summitville mine site, located West of Del Norte, Colorado, was a gold mining site dating back to the 1870s. Open pit mining of gold, copper, and silver started in the 1980s, impacting nearby rivers and soil. This informal tour will be open for questions and answers from the top of the site. It will cover geology, hydrogeology, historical, and modern day mining up to when it was declared a National Priorities Listed site. It will also cover the timeline of the site cleanup and review historical aerial photos in addition to assessing on-site current conditions. Lessons learned and future plans for the site will also be covered. This field trip will finish off with full display of water treatment practices and a tour of the two historical townsites. This will include learning more of the site history, and visit some of the historical buildings dating back to the early 1880's.

Kerber Creek Tour: Depending on participants, the tour will begin in the upper watershed at the Rawley 12 bulkhead site where tour leaders will describe the history of the Bonanza Mining district and reclamation efforts that began in the 1990’s. The installation of the bulkhead will be described, as well as the relocation of over 100,000 cubic yards of mine waste to a repository lower in the watershed. Before and after photos of the Rawley 12 site will help participants visualize past conditions. The tour will then either move to the Cocomongo Mill on upper Kerber Creek, or up to the Minnie Lynch Mine where three years of reclamation work has recently been completed in partnership with the US Forest Service. Following the upper mine sites, the tour will stop two lower watershed sites; one completed in the fall of 2012 and the other completed in 2015/16. Both of these sites are on private property and will provide examples of stream restoration, floodplain stabilization, and in-situ phytostabilization of mine tailings specific to this project. The tour will give a great representation of the Kerber Creek watershed, as well as the type of partnerships, funding, challenges, and technical approach necessary to complete a successful long-term mine clean-up project.

NOTE: Bag lunch will be provided from the Villa Grove Trade. High clearance AWD vehicles recommended for some of the upper watershed sites.