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~k~~~i , Mid-Continent Resources, Inc. 201 Centennial Street, Suite 406 Glenwood Springs, CO 81601 Limestone Ouarry f7ining Plan 1. General Description Relocation of limestone quarry north of Glenwood Springs from its present location to a new site approximately '~ mile to the west. This action is necessary because all economically recoverable commercial quality limestone has been extracted from the present site. Similar to the present quarry operation, the new quarry will consist of a quarry pit, rock crusher, stockpile area, and truck access road with a total affected surface area of approximately 15 acres. See general vicinity and site layout maps at Exhibits B and C. Twenty to fifty thousand tons of limestone per year will be quarried, crushed and hauled by truck to the Company's limestone pulverizing plant near Carbondale, Colorado. The pulverized limestone will be used for rockdusting in local underground coal mines. Approximately an equal amount of crushed lime- stone may be sold for other commercial purposes such as for use in powerplant air pollutant scrubbers. 2. Major Equipment List The following major items to operate the quarry: of equipment will be required rock crusher D8 bulldozer w/ripper front end loaders (2) air compressor air track dump truck water truck motor grader pickup truck haul trucks pan feeder grizzley shaker screen shaker screen conveyors 3. Operational Procedures The natural solid formations of limestone are broken up by blasting with high explosives. The shattered limestone, in many different sizes, is then screened to separate the desired sizes from those that are either too large or too small. Those that are too large are then run through the rock crusher and again screened to obtain the desired sizes. The crushed rock of sizes normally from 3/4" to 4" is then either loaded into trucks directly from the crusher or stockpiled near the crusher. Front end loaders are utilized to load the stockpiled limestone into haul trucks. The fines (3/4-) are used primarily for road surfacing.