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EXHIBIT D — Mining Plan <br />A -E: The subject area will be mined using the following procedure. The first operation will be to mow <br />the grass and vegetation growing on subject. We will use a 100 HP agricultural tractor and 10 to 15 foot <br />rotary mower to cut and pulverize the vegetation growing on area to be mined. The next step will be to <br />strip the topsoil estimated at 6 inches to 2 foot depth using scrapers. The stripped topsoil will be <br />stockpiled adjacent to the mined area, generally to the south, so it can be used in the reclamation <br />process. <br />After the mined area is stripped and the mining equipment has been set up, an excavator with a 3 to 6 <br />CUYD bucket will remove the sand and gravel and place it on conveyors that will transport the sand and <br />gravel to the screen plant. The screen plant will size the material and stockpile for use. It is anticipated <br />that the mined area will not exceed more than 10 acres at any one time. Any water encountered in the <br />mining process will be allowed to drain back to the mined area. It is anticipated that up to 0.5 acres will <br />be processed each workday. As the mining process moves east, starting from the west side of subject, <br />areas will be reclaimed after the sand and gravel deposits have been removed. ( See Reclamation Plan). <br />The timing for the process is hard to estimate at this time. The primary purpose for the mine is supply of <br />road surfacing aggregate and concrete sand for a proposed wind turbine farm north of the area. The <br />project is scheduled to commence construction in later April, 2012. If that schedule is reality, mining <br />operation would commence in late spring 2012 and continue for about 6 months. However if the wind <br />project is delayed or they select a different aggregate supplier, the mining operation will not commence <br />until an alternate construction project is identified. <br />F: The mined material is predicted to range from sand similar to beach sand to nominal gravel up to 1 <br />inch in size. Our interviews with the landowner and previous mine operator have us believe the deposit <br />to be as deep as 11 feet from grade and generally be increasingly coarse as toward the bottom of <br />deposit. The overburden is quite sandy, from 6 to 12 inches deep, and sometimes hard to distinguish <br />from the cleaner sand it transitions to. <br />Below the gravel deposit is a hard clay layer. <br />G: The primary commodity to be mined is road surfacing gravel to be used as aggregate on gravel roads. <br />The secondary commodity will be concrete sand to be used in ready mix concrete. <br />H: There are no expected incidental products that will be mined /extracted to our best knowledge. <br />I: There are no use of explosives planned or anticipated. <br />