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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. The <br />Mill Site is a quarter mile up CR 278 from the crossing of Baldwin Creek. Here you cross Baldwin Gulch <br />Drainage and intersect an old road cut from the late sixties which runs toward the Silver Star Claims. The <br />base camp will be set up at 11,000 feet on this Blue Star Mill Site. Canvas Tents provide housing for the <br />two people (on site geologist and machine operator) who stay on the mountain. <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. No <br />foreign material is added to the melt water. <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 />Parking Area. <br />Since the seventies a "parking area" has existed near the summit of the South Knob on the eastern side <br />along the trail which leads to the peak of Mount Antero. The area is generally flat with a small pool of <br />melt water a few inches deep sometimes present in the south west corner. We typically use this area when <br />we are working on the north face project, (area `B") parking a vehicle and four -wheeler there. This area is <br />heavily used (two to ten average on the weekends) by four wheeling clubs and hikers to park their <br />vehicles while they climb Antero. We tape off the northwest corner during active operations. As <br />requested by the Forest Service we keep the area clear and have placed boulders along the eastern edge to <br />