2015-03-19_REVISION - M2010058 (13)

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RECLAMATION PLAN EXHIBIT E 1. General Reclamation Plan The total area to be reclaimed is roughly 60 acres. The total permit area is 65.48 acres, therefore leaving 5.48 acres of undisturbed ground on site. The bulk of disturbance will be from the mining phases. Topsoil and overburden berms will be installed for both storage and buffering purposes. There will be almost no permanent facilities on site, with equipment coming and going as needed each year to support construction material production. A scale house, office trailer, and paved site access are the extent of the permanent facilities that will have to be removed at the end of the mine life. Reclamation will occur concurrently with mining activities during most of the mine's life. This will help to minimize ongoing disturbance area of the operation, which will limit the impacts at any given time. Mining Maps 1 -6 show the concurrent mining and reclamation. Table E -1 Reclamation Volumes shows the volumes needed to reclaim. Once mining is complete in Phases I and 113, backfilling of the Phase 1B area will begin from the overburden that had been stored in Phase 1 C. This is the worst case reclamation scenario, and is covered in more detail in Exhibit L. Table E -1 - Reclamation Volumes Phase Topsoil StA ed (CY1 Overburden Stripped (CY) Topsoil Replaced Overburden Backfill Placed CY (C IA 8,067 64,533 8,067 236,192 113 6,131 49,045 6,131 138,904 1C 15,327 122,613 15,327 120,092 2 22,587 180,693 22,587 189,881 3 23,555 188,437 23,555 0 4 10,325 82,603 10,325 0 Totals 1 85,991 1 687,925 1 85,991 1 685,069 The post mine land use will be upland meadow and grazing land. All disturbed areas will be revegetated with a native or grazing seed mix as recommended by the Natural Resource Conservation Service. This matches the pre mine lands use, as well as neighboring land uses. Cerise Mine March 2015 E -1