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EXHIBITC MINING PLAN <br /> 1 . General Mining Plan Map E-1 shows the current conditions of the Bancroft Placer Mine. <br /> Mining wilt disturb most of the 4.8 acres delineated on Map E-1. Mine access is via State <br /> Highway 141 which is a paved road with gravel shoulders and through mine site operated <br /> by Gregg Morrill. Map E-2 shows the site access location. The eastern border of the <br /> property parcel are fenced with four strand barbed wire fencing. Mining of the—15foot <br /> thick gravel deposit will progress in a nondirectional pattern throughout the site and <br /> potential higher grade areas will be preferentially targeted. Due to various past mining <br /> efforts on the site, unmined areas wilt be targeted first. Only two acres will be disturbed <br /> and out of reclamation at any given time in the active mining area.An additional0.5-acre <br /> processing and tailings area will extend through the mine's life. The gravel deposit wilt be <br /> excavated via front end loader and either directly fed into the processing plant or placed <br /> within a dump truck fortransport to the processing area. Diesel-hydraulic equipment will <br /> be used to mine and transport material to trommels and/or horizontal deck wash plants. <br /> No chemical processing treatments will be used on site; only water is used in processing <br /> gold and gravel.The undersize material(<1/2")will pass through a series of sluice boxes to <br /> gravity concentrate recoverable gold. Sluice boxes concentrate gold similarlyto how a <br /> stream channel would and is termed `hindered settling.'Hindered settling allows particles <br /> to settle by decreasing terminal velocity. The classic sluice box is an open channel with a <br /> flat riffled bottom (Figure 1). Riffles are generally formed by expanded metal. Gravels to be <br /> processed are mixed with water in the screening process and flow across the riffles. Riffles <br /> 1 <br />