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Exhibit "C" Minim Plan <br />Mining Plan <br />The operation will use existing roads to access the target locations. <br />Directions to the mining site. <br />From highway 285 just outside Nathrop, CO turn west on County Road 162 and drive west to the area <br />near Alpine CO then turn south on County Road 277 (a well -used four wheel drive road) to where it <br />crosses Baldwin Creek then follow County Road 278 to the "saddle" where you follow 278A to the <br />summit of the South Knob of Mount Antero. All existing dirt access roads are 8 -10 feet wide in general. <br />There are tight areas up on the upper switchbacks but the excavator has no problem negotiating the turns. <br />The only repairs made on the access roads are those requested from the National Forest. In the past it was <br />requested that we repair drainage bars, fill washouts and do other minor repairs for safety reasons. None <br />of these repairs were to allow the excavator access as it could have gone directly to the dig site. <br />Mill Site. <br />On. the way up you would cross through the Blue Star Mill Site. This Mill Site is where the camping and <br />final field rinsing take place. The Mill Site is a quarter mile up CR 278 from the crossing of Baldwin <br />Creek. Here you cross Baldwin Gulch Drainage and intersect an old road cut from the late sixties which <br />runs toward the Silver Star Claims. The base camp will be set up at 11,000 feet on this Blue Star Mill <br />Site. Canvas Tents provide housing for the two people (on site geologist and machine operator) who stay <br />on the mountain. All waste (human and otherwise) will be removed from the mill site at end of season. <br />Water usage. <br />A small amount of water (< 5 gallons) is typically used to "wash" a face of the pegmatite when crystals <br />are found. This is usually from the melt from the immediate area and sinks into the subsurface with the <br />rest of the permafrost melt. This just helps us identify the mineralization occurring in the pocket. Down at <br />the mill site a 30 -50 gallon container will use circulating water (probably a battery operated pump <br />connected to one of the vehicles.) to rinse the clays off the better mineral specimens. This amounts to less <br />than a five gallon bucket of mined material brought down to the mill site a week. The material we are <br />after are the small but valuable gems and the best of the mineral specimens and are never a great volume. <br />The water would be collected at the Baldwin Gulch creek which runs near the mill site. Often we just <br />bring the specimens directly off the mountain and clean them at the claim owner's property off the <br />mountain. The solids from operations at the mill site are returned to the dig site for reclamation and the <br />water is used to douse the fire pit. Operation of the pump and wash basin expected to be less than 30 <br />minutes a day. Most of the material that is dug will remain at the dig site in reclamation dump piles. <br />Access Roads at the mine. <br />As stated above the main access road is CR278A. This is a four -wheel drive road of switchbacks that lead <br />to the summit of the South Knob of Mount Antero. The summit of the South Knob has many old mining <br />roads on it, (see attached map dated 1976 with updates) and can be seen on the Google Earth pictures <br />from the initial 1999 image onward. <br />