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Mining Phases <br />Time to <br />Complete <br />Phase I _ <br />8 ears <br />Phase 2 <br />5 years <br />Phase 3 <br />— 4 ears <br />Total <br />; 17 years <br />3. Mine Facilities and Operation <br />The following mining activities will take place at the Fairplay Au Pit: <br />• Excavation of placer materials and the associated rock <br />• Washing of construction materials <br />• Recovery of placer gold <br />• Stockpiling of products <br />• Loading of highway trucks <br />Equipment to support these activities will include portable plants, front-end loaders, dozers, haul <br />trucks, and sluice. <br />4. Topsoil and Overburden Handling <br />Portions of the deposit to be recovered under this permit is old placer hydraulicked tailings. There is <br />no recoverable topsoil on these portions of the site. In the undisturbed portions of the site, topsoil <br />will be stripped for use in reclamation, however, it is not anticipated that much topsoil will be <br />present. Topsoil and overburden in the undisturbed areas ranges from 12 to 18 inches thick. To <br />compensate for the lack of native topsoil, fines from gold processing will be stockpiled and stored <br />to act as a topsoil substitute. This material is composed of the same material that topsoil would be <br />made of — fines from glacial debris. Topsoil and overburden will be stored in a stockpile area (Map <br />C-2) for portions of the mine's life. This material is expected to only by the immediately stripped <br />topsoil from the currently undisturbed portions of Phase 1. During most of the operation, topsoil <br />will be direct placed on regraded areas undergoing reclamation. Any topsoil, overburden storage <br />berm, and fines stockpiles will be vegetated within 180 days of completion. Table D-3 shows the <br />topsoil stripping that will take place at each step of the mining operations. <br />Fairplay A u Pit March 201 .7 D-3 X a.a L-kU -a Amd.— n i r <br />