2015-07-27_PERMIT FILE - M2015033

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Exhibit D- Mining Plan The 156.78± Acre permit boundary contains two areas of planned extraction bounded by extraction limits and identified as Tract A — West Basin and Tract B — East Basin. Each area of planned extraction includes the following: 55.21± Acres of Planned Extraction — Tract A — 05-15± years. 46.76± Acres of Planned Extraction — Tract B — 10-30± years. 101.97± Acres of Planned Extraction — TOTAL Of the remaining 54.81± acres of the permit boundary, 20.81± acres comprise existing and permanent access roads, irrigation laterals, operational support/mineral reserve areas, and setbacks or areas of pre-existing, minor, to no disturbance. The remainder includes a 10.00± acre Mineral Reserve Area (1) between Tracts A and B, and an additional 24.00± acre Mineral Reserve Area (2) to its south. Extraction will not occur within the Mineral Reserve Areas until and unless identified, detailed, and approval under a separate technical revision to the permit. Until that time the Mineral Reserve Areas will be used to support both wet and dry plant operations and stockpiling of processed materials. An existing basin (created by previous agricultural activity) within the 10.00± acre Mineral Reserve Area (1) will be utilized as a wash pond to support all on-site plant/processing activities. A portable scalehouse/office and/or concrete and/or asphalt batch plant and/or recycling facilities may also be located in the Mineral Reserve Areas. The actual location, extent, and facilities will be detailed and identified by location an extent in a later technical revision to the original approved permit. No on-site storage of fuels is planned as portable fuel (trucks) will service all heavy and correlated operational equipment. An electrical line serving operations is not shown on included maps as it is established by the operator, temporary, and subject to relocation in cooperation with United Power Company. All other power and related overhead or buried lines are outside of the influence of extraction activity, or will otherwise be relocated in cooperation with their owners or other responsible parties where they conflict within the interior of planned extraction. Buried oil and gas lines are estimated, and extraction and offset of operations are approximate and will be determined in the field in cooperation with the Utility Notification Center of Colorado. It should be noted that a homestead and yard with outbuildings occupies 1.50± acres and acts to divide the north central permit boundary. The access road leading Varra Companies, Inc. OMLR 112 Permit Application 2 Parcel 122 — Resource Development Project 1 July 2015