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Cross Gold Mine <br />December 2024 E-1 <br /> <br /> <br />Exhibit E Reclamation Plan <br />1. RE CLAMATION PLAN <br />This is an underground mining operation. Once underground mining is complete and the surface <br />facilities are no longer needed, the affected mine site surface areas (Exhibit D, Section 1.1) will be <br />reclaimed within the five-year period. The Cross Mine will be reclaimed in accordance with DRMS <br />permit requirements and Section 3 of the Reclamation Performance Standards (Section 3.1, Hard <br />Rock, Metal, and Designated Mining Operations (Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board 2019) as <br />described below. Map F-1 shows the reclaimed conditions of the site. <br />Year one reclamation will begin with removal of facilities, debris, and other materials (Exhibit D, Section <br />1.1) that would interfere with revegetation. Water, sediment, and liners will be removed from the ponds. <br />Reclamation areas will be graded and prepared for revegetation. If time allows during the first year of <br />reclamation, the reclamation sites will be revegetated. Revegetation may need to wait for year two. In <br />year two, shafts and portals will be closed and fenced. During year three, all remaining reclamation <br />activities that have not been completed, will be. GIR does not anticipate reclamation past year three. <br />The post-mining land use will be Forestry in accordance with Boulder County (BOCO) regulations <br />(Appendix M-2) and as approved by DRMS in 1999 (DRMS Record REV08755) and BOCO (DRMS <br />Record REV201670) and in 2012, BOCO approved building retention following reclamation (Appendix <br />M-2) as. Reclamation activities described in this plan are directed toward this future use on what is <br />private land. The existing private residence (historic cabin) will be retained on site. No substitute lands <br />are proposed for reclamation. No structural fill will be imported. <br />The site components that will be reclaimed include the following: <br />Table E-1. Site Components for Reclamation <br />Site Component Square Feet Approximate Acres <br />Cross Mine Adit 64 0.0014 <br />Cross Ventilation Shaft and Escapeway 64 0.0014 <br />Cross Ventilation Shaft 36 0.0008 <br />Idaho Tunnel Portal 144 0.0033 <br />Caribou 300 Level Portal 64 0.0014 <br />Potosi Shaft 36 0.0008 <br />Waste Rock Landform 12068 0.2770 <br />Pond 1 2004 0.0460 <br />Pond 2 8285 0.1902 <br />Ponds 3A, 3B, 3C 8636 0.1982 <br />New Roadway between Cross and Caribou Mines 28465 0.6534 <br />Disturbed Hillside Around Idaho Tunnel Portal 6417 0.1473 <br />Roadway from USFS Road 505 to Snowshed Door at Caribou 300 Level Portal 300 0.0068