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TECHNICAL REVISION MILL REMOVAL WORK PLAN May Day Idaho Mine Complex May Day,Colorado M1981-185 INTRODUCTION As approved by concerned regulatory entities,Wildcat Mining Corporation (Wildcat) is requesting authorization to remove a ball mill (mill)1, a 95kw generator and a trashed trailer from the mine site in accordance with an approved Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety (CDRMS)Technical Revision.The referenced equipment is located on the May Day Idaho Mine site (M1981-185). The mine is located adjacent to May Day community, La Plata County, approximately seventeen (17) miles west of Durango, Colorado. The proposed mill and generator removal task outlined in the following Technical Revision (TR), is estimated to take approximately two to three days to complete and one day to remove the trashed house trailer located at the mine site base of operation. The TR, if approved,will move the mill from the Quonset building and move a generator from a Zircon container, both are located within the May Day No. 1 portal are. (See General Site Location Figure 1-May Day Idaho Mine aerial photograph). Prior to submitting the TR, the removal action was discussed with the US Army Corp(Kara Helige2), La Plata County Planning Department (Neal Starkebaum3 and Courtney Roseberry3) and Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety (Lucas West).Wildcat's old trailer will be also be removed from the base of operational area. Background In 2013,a Wildcat technical revision was approved to remove Wildcat's mill and associated mill processing equipment(See Attachment B-1 and B-2-).The following TR removal work plan, if approved, will remove the mill and a 95KW generator. Equipment identified in TR-6 (Attachment B) but not addressed in this removal plan TR will be moved'from the May Day mine site and stored in Wildcat's Idaho mine site warehouse later,as necessary,approvals for these items will be requested at that time. Building and Road Setting The mill is housed in a Quonset style building (See Figure 2),whereas,the generator is stored in a zircon storage container located on the May Day No 1. portal area. The topography and access road location to be used to remove the equipment from the May Day No. 1 portal area to the base of operation is illustrated on Figure 3 . 'Ball mill including the skid is approximately 10 feet long x 6 feet wide and weighs approximately 30,000 pounds 'Chief, Durango Regulatory Office-U.S.Army Corps 3 Community Development Director 4 Community Development Planner