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05045 Introduction Banks and Gesso, LLC Oglebay Norton Industrial Sands, Inc. is submitting this Regular (112) Operation Reclamation Permit application to conduct sand mining activities on property located in EI Paso County, Colorado. The operation will be called the Jemadojin Sand Mine. The applicant proposes to extract industrial sand (SIC 1446) from the subject property. The site is located in the S % of Section 34, Township 16 South, Range 62 West and part of the NW Y< of the NW Y< of Section 3, Township 17 South, Range 62 West, 6"' P.M., EI Paso County, Colorado. The proposed site contains 299.78 acres, approximately 63 of which will be affected. Within the affected area approximately 33 acres will be mined. The property is owned by Jemadojin, LLC. Oglebay Norton has entered into a lease with the property owners to extract industrial sand from their property. The mineral rights on the property also belong to Jemadojin, LLC. Oglebay Norton plans to have 2-3 employees on site, 10 hours per day, 5-6 days per week, 52 weeks per year. Contract truck drivers will add up to 4 more people on the site at any given time. Haul trucks will take screened material to the applicant's existing plant in Colorado Springs for further processing. The mining area itself is approximately 33 acres located on the east-central portion of the property. The sand will be mined using loaders, and screened using a portable power screening unit. Reject material from this initial screening process will be located east of the mining area and reserved for backfill; further processing of material will be done at the applicant's plant in Colorado Springs. Clean pond fines reject material will then be brought back to the site and stored in a reject pile west of the mined area, within the permit boundary, to be later used as backfill during reclamation. Although there will technically be importation of reject material (i.e. out of specification sand and silt), it is important to note that all of the "imported" material will have originated at the site, and is merely being returned for use in reclamation. Man made structures on or within 200 feet of the property include a geodesic but and abandoned water trough owned by the property owners, plus Dearing Road and overhead power lines and an underground telephone line that parallel it. The site does not contain wetlands, streams or any sort of natural surtace water body. The mining operation will not intersect the water table and will not consume groundwater. Oglebay Norton Industrial Santls, Inc. February 2, 2006 Jemadojin Sand Mine Page 4