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~~ <br /> <br />out facility. The main road crosses through the property; <br />however, there are several side roads to the main adits where <br />most of the historic operations were carried out. An old <br />trail is also visible, traversing the properties as well as <br />the landscape beyond the property boundary. <br />The proposed Incas mining operations include reworking the old <br />dumps and reopening one or more of the old adits and tunnels. <br />Some improvements, in addition to grading, maybe necessary to <br />improve the local access road. <br />The old waste rocl; dumps contain considerable quantities of <br />ore which was originally wasted because of its relatively low <br />grade. Modern equipment, improved separation techniques, and <br />the market price of gold have made this ore commercially <br />important at this time. The dump materials will be picked up <br />using front loaders and/or backhoes and deposited on a <br />portable screening plant. The ore will be sorted to minus two <br />inches. The larger material will be wasted in (not more than <br />three) dumps which will be centrally located to reduce the <br />travel time of the loaders between the historic dumps and the <br />portable screening plant. <br />The minus two inch fraction will be loaded on 4 x 4 haul <br />trucks and transported to a transfer station in the May Day <br />area. The actual site (less than an acre) has not been <br />determined but will be on private land on already disturbed <br />public lands. The final site will be mapped and sent to the <br />Mined land Reclamation Division for approval before commencing <br />load transfer operations. Over the highway trucks will haul <br />the ore to a commercial mill for processing. It is <br />anticipated that 200 tons of ore will be hauled from the site <br />daily. Assuming a haul capacity of 6 to 10 tons per truck, <br />approximately 30 to 35 round trips per day will be needed to <br />move 200 tons, daily, from the Incas to the load transfer <br />station. The highway trucks haul from 20 to 28 tons of ore <br />which will require 10 or less round trips per day to the mill. <br />The smaller haul trucks will dump the ore at the load transfer <br />site. A front loader will reload it onto the over the road <br />trucks. <br />The ore from waste rock dumps <br />be screened without causing <br />material being transported to <br />to prevent losses of the finer <br />concern to the operator sip <br />grade deposits. <br />contains sufficient moisture to <br />fugitive dust problems. The <br />the mill may have to be covered <br />materials. This will be of <br />ice the fines contain the higher <br />From the load transfer site, the over the highway haul trucks <br />will use existing State and County roads to move the ore to <br />the mill. Hauling from the mine will be limited seasonally <br />due to the large accumulations of snow common to southwestern <br />