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Reclamation <br />Reclamation will be achieved through methods described in the NSI 2010 Mine Plan. <br />Locations have been chosen to reduce disturbance. Topsoil will be stored immediately <br />adjacent to location, covered and clearly marked. following completion of all operations <br />on a location, the pad will be recontoured to reflect original topography. Topsoil will be <br />reapplied, and a seed mix will be distributed per the NSI 2010 Mine Plan. The access road <br />will also be recontoured, the topsoil redistributed, and seeded in the same manner. If the <br />hole on the location is to be completed as a monitoring well, the location and access will <br />be interim reclaimed so that only the minimum required access is maintained. Interim <br />reclamation will consist of recontouring the pad and access, distributing topsoil, and <br />seeding, while still maintaining access adequate for sampling the well. <br />Once the location is reclaimed or interim reclaimed, a fence with gated access will be <br />installed to limit grazing access and allow seeding to cultivate. If fully reclaimed, the <br />location will begin a six year biological monitoring program as per the BLM Record of <br />Decision (ROD). After the six years, if the location meets the requirements set in the ROD, <br />it may be then considered for bonding release. <br />Timing <br />NSI wishes to begin drilling the Phase I wells as early as possible in 2014. Location and <br />access construction would be done concurrently with drilling; as a pad location is <br />completed, the rig will move on and core, while the dirt moving equipment moves to the <br />next location. Individual pad building is expected to take up to a week, and drilling and <br />coring the well may take 7 to 10 days. Barring contingencies, it is thought that dirt work, <br />drilling/coring, and abandonment would take approximately 6 months for this exploration <br />program. This allows for approximately 2 weeks per well. The operations are projected to <br />end in late fall of 2014. Phase II drilling maybe drilled simultaneously with Phase I. <br />Daub & Associates, Inc. N51 2014 Exploration Program <br />Page 5 of 10 Revised 3/14/14 <br />