PDFWAC 296-17A-1703
Classification 1703.
1703-01 Open cut mining - All types; placer or hydraulic mining
Applies to:
All types of open cut mining, also commonly referred to as surface mining, open pit mining, or strip mining, whereby ores and minerals are extracted from a large hole or pit on the surface.
Materials extracted include, but are not limited to:
• All types of ore;
• Asbestos;
• Asphalt;
• Chalk;
• Graphite;
• Gypsum;
• Mica;
• Phosphate rock;
• Talc.
Work activities include, but are not limited to:
• Excavating and stripping the surface material with use of drag lines, power shovels or earth moving equipment.
• Loading products onto dump trucks or belt conveyors for movement to railroad sidings.
• Loading into ore cars for shipment to processing plants.
• Hydraulic mining – Material is excavated by moving a stream of high pressure water over the mining face.
• Placer mining – Obtains minerals from placers by use of running water such as on a stream or the shoreline.
Equipment used include, but are not limited to:
• Bulldozers;
• Compressors;
• Conveyors;
• Drag lines;
• Pneumatic drilling rigs;
• Scrapers;
• Shovels;
• Trucks.
Exclusions:
• Underground mining is classified in 1702;
• Quarrying is classified in 1704.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 51.04.020 and 51.16.035. WSR 23-23-155, § 296-17A-1703, filed 11/21/23, effective 1/1/24. WSR 07-01-014, recodified as § 296-17A-1703, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035. WSR 98-18-042, § 296-17-550, filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; WSR 85-24-032 (Order 85-33), § 296-17-550, filed 11/27/85, effective 1/1/86; Order 75-38, § 296-17-550, filed 11/24/75, effective 1/1/76; Order 73-22, § 296-17-550, filed 11/9/73, effective 1/1/74.]