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Depending upon the market demand, some of the broken rock will be separated into various sizes for use as fairly massive decorative pieces, while most will be screened and crushed for landscaping uses. Not much of the material will be finely cntshed for uses such as road base as presently found in the area identified on the m+ip as "Old crushed stockpile". 3. The foregoing may Dave provided the principal information requested in this question. However, foliowirrg processing of material at the previ.cusly described crusher location, the material will be transported via a conveyor system r_o the stock- pile areas indicated along the western boundary and on portions of the unworked ledge below the cedar slope area which is also identified on the map. 4. It is estimated th.e exnosed rock out-cropping towers about 100' above the side slope identified on the map as r.he "Cedar area". The rock out-r_ropping narrows to a high shine rising fairly to the east. where it blends into the western slopes of the front range foothills generally southeast of Pikes Peak. Therefore, depth of mining initially may be 40' more or less on the spine at the eastern end of the permitted area and about 100' to the point above the steep cedar slope. Please see t}re "cross section sketches" that provide a general view of the site as presently described and the expected appear- ance in about 10 years. If after the principal ro~~k out-cropping is removed and both a resource remains and the market demand remains, then a decision will be made tc excavate still deeper into the ridge. In such an event, mining will require the construction of a series of quarry wall benches down the slope from east to west. Please refer to sketch No. 3 that indicates the general design that would be followed. This later phase of mining activity is more fully discussed in our response to Question 6, below. It should be noted that mining in the area of the cedar slope may be necessary and desireable simultaneous with the activity on the exposed rock out-cropping in the first 10 years of operation. The decision to proceed with mining in this area would involve clearing of the fair7.y tltin cedar and pine stand and the removal and stockpiling of all possible topsoil material in the northern most corner just west of the trail road. ,Justification far min.in3 on this slope could be the result of unavoidable over-casting of rock rubble into the trees or because the color variation of rock found in this area comes into demand. However, due to the sr_eepness of this cedar slope area, it seems likely that the high rock out-cropping directly above would need to be mined first. 5. The old crushed stockpile does not appear to contain more than 50 to 100 cuyds. of material cast over the embankment. The small rock pile area below the cedar slope is also so very small as to be insignificant to the first year requirements. There are no other rock piles on the site.