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Item 1. Descriation of observations from excavations around the mine site • <br />Bowie Resources, LLC had conducted numerous excavations with the slump area during the past <br />two years. These excavations have varied in size and have included: <br />• Access roads to drill pads <br />• Drill pads <br />• The B-seam portal area box cut <br />The determination of the 5-ft cube size for the rock fall was based on observations during these <br />excavations as well as observations both along the outcrop and areas down slope from the <br />channel sand outcrop. <br />Construction of access roads and drill pads indicated a maximum block size of less than 3 feet. <br />Excavation of the B-seam box cut indicated approximately 70% of the rock encountered were <br />less than or equal to the 5-ft cube size. The largest rock encountered in the excavation measured <br />about 22 ft by 12 ft by 12 ft. The superintendent in charge of the excavation noted that many <br />times the larger rocks encountered in the excavation were somewhat broken and fractured in to <br />smaller fragments. These larger rocks tended to be more rectangular in shape. <br />Observations on the slope below the channel sandstone outcrop indicated that the majority of the <br />blocks that had apparently traveled the longest distance downhill were those less than 5-ft in • <br />overall size. Large rocks in the talus slope tended to be more rectangular in shape. <br />U <br />/tl R-3`I <br />/~ PPRov~ 3~ y~o y <br />