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(Page 2 of 7) EXHIBIT "D" (Sheet 1 of 5) Reclamation Plan As per instructions included with application form. 1. All backfill will be replaced to original ground surface with attention given to the original contours and shape of terrain. It is the Operator's plan to keep total of excavated areas to a minimum of the twv (2) acres allowed under the permit. If it is discovered that the total of the areas excavated has risen to one and three quarters {1.7,5) of an acre, then no more excavating will take place until reclamation procedures have reduced the total excavated areas' total to the 1.75 acres targeted. Currently, the total impacted area for all three mining parcels is 1.455 acres as indicated on the Affected Lands Map (Exhibit "C"). This estimate includes the areas combined in the rectangular boxes around the individual open excavations (O. E.)'s, which are in most of the cases substantially smaller than the rectangles surrounding their irregular outlines or perimeters. Arty changes in area sizes due to mining operations will be duly indicated in the required annual reports and on the accompanying updated maps. It seems that the system of using rectangular forms around irregular shaped surface excavations is the simplest way to calculate and compare areas and their contained acreage; subsequently, this is the system submitted if acceptable. 2. The Operator has not, to its knowledge, nor is it aware of any hazardous or toxic producing materials that could be exposed by its mining operations in the types of geologic strata encountered. 3. Only at, or near the tops or flattened crests of the rolling terrain could flat slopes of 3:1 or gentler be logically introduced. Most excavations occur on the hillsides where attempts to construct gentle slopes would result in cuts required to construct such slopes being unable to "daylight" in possibly hundreds of feet, or, requiring unrealistic fills requiring possibly hundreds of feet to "catch" . As usually required by the U.S. Forest Service every attempt will be made to match and/or preserve the existing slopes. Qa. The geologic nature of the subject area contributes considerable influence toward the botanical opportunities available to various species of plant life. The higher ridges are mostly barren rock outcrops. As descent is made to the lower but still relatively steep hillsides, some topsoil and plant life becomes evident. However, even in the lower reaches the topsoil ranges from none to 3 or 4 inches in depth. Most places it overlies hard granite or decomposing granite. Even the decomposing granite seems to transport surface water run-off very well with considerable resistance to erosion, and some places it appears nearly completely devoid from plant life. Hard rock, in place is never very much below ground surface anywhere that might be conducive to mining. Even so, clump grasses, dwarf sage, some wild flowers and a few shrubs are coRUnon. Any available topsoil disturbed during mining operations has been, and will be, stockpiled to be distributed over backfilled sites, usually, the site it was removed from. Typically, any backfilled site will be left in a slightly rough or scarified condition to encourage seed to remain in place and germinate.