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<br />f W ~ <br />EXHIBIT B <br />MINING PLAN <br />The Willow Creek Mine is an open pit excavation on a <br />hillside of about 1096 grade. Approximately 5000 cubic yards <br />of material has been extracted by the previous owner over a <br />nineteen year period. The material is sand, gravel, and rock <br />and is loaded into a 6-yard dump truck by a 2-yard trac type <br />loader. It is then hauled .9 mile to the processing plant <br />and dumped. Next it is fed into a 4~x14~ trommel screen with <br />a .4 cubic yard drag line. Water is pumped into the rotating <br />tromeel by a 4" gasoline powered water pump, The fine material <br />carrying gold is screened off and is carried into a 40~ sleuce <br />box. The tailings that settle out past the end of the sleuce <br />are pushed into a pile with a bulldozer. Water is piunped from <br />and returned to a pond 325' long, 75~ wide, and 18~ deep. There <br />is no discharge from the pond and ground water keeps it at <br />about the same depth year around. The mine will be operated <br />from about May 1st to October 15th and will extract less than <br />4000 cubic yards annually. This is strictly a one-man operation. <br />The pit is located on the Willow Creek N2 and ~2 Mining Claims <br />and will be extended to the north and west at less than 100 <br />feet per year. (See Map) <br />The processing plant site was first used in the 1930~s <br />by placer miners who saved their gravel, washed it, and sold <br />it to the Climax Mine. It has been used intermittently ever <br />since. This plant is on a special use permit area and will <br />not ba enlarged. It consists of a pond, tailings pile (5000 <br />plus or minus cubic yards), and an equipment storage area. <br />