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I <br /> Therefore, it will be necessary for the Company to mine .and <br /> process this material . Lower-grade material and/or pilot plant W <br /> reject material will be combined with mulch and fertilizer and <br /> allowed to weather to create an artificial topsoil which will <br /> be used in reclamation. <br /> All material moved and processed in the mining and <br /> processing operation will be retained within the boundaries of <br /> the permit area, except for the are product and except for <br /> screened sand which may be sold. There will be no discharge of <br /> material of any kind from the permit area. <br /> , I Sr i , o Q1 n J.J <br /> The mined ore will be processed through the pilot <br /> plant , which utilizes a wet gravity con-cefftration—system. The <br /> present rated capacity of the plant , after initia screening, <br /> is 60-80 tons per hour, but this capacity may be enlarged in <br /> the future . The system involves first the sizing of the <br /> material to produce a medium-grained product (less than about <br /> 20 to 40 mesh and more than about 325 mesh) . This product will <br /> then be processed using several gravity separation methods to <br /> produce a heavy mineral concentrate. The coarse and mediu <br /> grained reject material will be stockpiled or use in roadw v W �Q.:R t <br /> improvement armor possible sale,with the excess returned to <br /> e mined out areas as backfill . The fine grained reject <br /> material will be dewatered and pumped or hauled to the <br /> mined-out areas also for use as backfill. Some excess or <br /> overflow reject material may from time to. times d in theJ%�� <br /> `fempor_aryJov_e`rfl_ow storage area situated_ in Honsnl r.,,ich <br /> —'�tween the two water storage reservoirs . However, such <br /> storage will only be temporary and the stored material will <br /> when feasible be hauled to a mined-out area for use as <br /> backfill . A drainage ditch on the south edge of the storage <br /> area will be established so that the reject material will not <br /> be carried away by intermittent stream flow, and a lined <br /> spillway will be constructed over the south edge of the reject <br /> material storage area. <br /> The pilot plant also will be used to a certain degree <br /> in the bulk sample testing of material from other properties , <br /> the mining of which samples will be conducted under an approved <br /> notice ,to conduct prospecting operations , or otherwise by <br /> approval . <br /> The overall schedule of activity in the mining and <br /> reclamation program will consist of two phases . As each <br /> approximately ten-acre mining increment is completed and a new <br /> one begun, reclamation will commence in the deactivated mining <br /> area. <br /> I <br /> -5- <br />