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Shaft Site Construction <br />The pad site will be approximately 1.0 acres in size. <br />Brush and/or small Drees will be cleaned from the drill pads using a bulldozer. Topsoil will be <br />removed and stockpiled on the upslope side of the drill pad and remain undisturbed during <br />drilling at. the site. The topsoil pile will be seeded due to the duration of storage. Approximately <br />one foot of soil thickness will be salvaged and stockpiled at the disturbance site with a <br />"TOPSOIL" sign clearly marking the pile. Leveling of the drill sites (cut and fill) by grading the <br />subsoil and/or weathered rock is anticipated. <br />Slurry (mud) pit construction will be made on the downslope portion of the topsoil stripped drill <br />pad. Using either a D-6 dozer or backhce, fmm one to two pits will be excavated at each site, <br />depending upon depth of drill hole and projected water requirements. The mud pit(s) will be <br />approximately 10' wide, 30' long and 6' deep. Subsoil and rock materials excavated from the <br />pits wiII be held separately and used to refill the mud pit(s) upon reclamation. Atl pit <br />constructions and extracted subsoil will be within the stripped pad area <br />The hydrologic balance will be protected by min;,niTng disturbance and through the entrapment <br />of sediments from exploration activities. Where possible, the existing vegetation will be left in- <br />place and the need for sediment control therefore reduced. <br />Salvaged soils will be placed upslope of the drill pad with appropriate sediment control devices <br />surrounding the down slope portion of the soil stockpile. A similar sediment control device will <br />be placed on the downslope side of the subsoiUrock stockpiles from the slurry (mud) pits. <br />Overland flow of the drill fluids will be directed into the slurry pit as will most precipitation <br />runoff. <br />Where roadwork is required to widen or level the roadway, the topsoil will be stripped aril <br />stockpiles will be placed upslope of the shaft site pad. <br />Methods and Equipment for Drilling <br />Rotary drilling and coring on the pad will be completed using grubber-tired truck-mounted <br />drilling rig. To aid in the protection of the hydrologic balance and protect other resources tbe <br />company will utilize as small a drill rig as can safely and successfully complete the job. In doing <br />so, the requirements for access mad and drill site disturbances are lessened. Support equipment <br />may consist of one or two water trucks, one rig-up truck, a pipe truck, flatbed trailer, one or more <br />air compressor;, and/or boosters, a supply trailer and three 4 x 4 pickups for the drill crews and <br />company representatives. This assembly is generally referred to as a "drilling unit". One drilling <br />unit is anticipated during the drilling project <br />Water for drilling operations will either be pumped or trucked to the sites and obtained from the <br />springs or the Dry Fork of Minnesota Creek. The use of these other potential water sources will <br />be approved by the agency or party owning the water rights prior to their use. In the event stock <br />8 <br />