§ 34-20-102 — Definitions

Colorado § 34-20-102

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 34: Mineral
• Art.: Mining - Legislative Declaration and Definitions

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As used in articles 20 to 25 of this title 34, unless
the context otherwise requires:

(1) Approved means confirmed by the commissioner of mines or his
designee.

(2) Authorized representative means a person employed by the division and
authorized by the director to conduct safety and health studies, equipment surveys,
tests, and technical assistance visits and to perform other duties assigned by the
director.

(3) Board means the coal mine board of examiners.

(4) Coal mine means an area of land and all structures, facilities,
machinery, tools, equipment, shafts, slopes, tunnels, excavations, and other
property, real or personal, placed upon, under, or above the surface of such land by
any person and used in, to be used in, or resulting from the work of extracting in
such bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite from its natural deposits in the earth by
any means or method, including the work of preparing the coal so extracted, and
such term includes custom coal preparation facilities.

(5) Commissioner means the commissioner of mines.

(6) Department means the department of natural resources.

(7) Director means the director of the division of reclamation, mining, and
safety in the department of natural resources.

(8) Division means the division of reclamation, mining, and safety in the
department of natural resources.

(9) (a) Mine means:

(I) Any area of land from which minerals are extracted in nonliquid form or
are extracted in a liquid form while workers are underground;

(II) Private ways and roads appurtenant to such area; and

(III) Lands, excavations, underground passageways, shafts, slopes, tunnels
and workings, structures, facilities, equipment, machines, tools, or other property,
including impoundments, retention dams, and tailing ponds, on the surface or
underground, used in, or to be used in, or resulting from the work of extracting such
minerals from their natural deposits in nonliquid form or, if in liquid form, used by
workers underground or used or to be used in the milling of such minerals or the
work of preparing coal or other minerals.

(b) Mine does not include the facilities defined in section 12-115-103 (9), nor
does it include earthen dams, sand and gravel pits, clay pits, or rock and stone
quarries, including surface limestone and dolomite quarries.

(10) Miner means any individual working in a mine.

(11) Operator means any owner, lessee, or other person who operates,
controls, or supervises a mine or an independent contractor performing services or
construction at such mine.

(12) Tourist mine means a nonproducing mine not regulated by the federal
government that is open to the general public for tours.

(13) Work of preparing the coal means the breaking, crushing, sizing,
cleaning, washing, drying, mixing, storing, and loading of bituminous coal, lignite, or
anthracite and such other work of preparing such coal as is usually done by the
operator of the coal mine.

Legislative History

Source: L. 88: Entire article R&RE, p. 1185, � 1, effective July 1. L. 92: (2), (7), and (8) amended, p. 1923, � 10, effective July 1. L. 2006: (2), (7), and (8) amended, p. 214, � 7, effective August 7. L. 2019: IP and (9)(b) amended, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1721, � 225, effective October 1.