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. EXHIBIT B-SITE DESCRIPTION <br />The affected land is situated at an elevation of about 9,630 feet on an open <br />southerly-facing slope. The area is open rangeland; the adjacent lands aze open, <br />and the native vegetation present is rangeland grasses. The average precipitation <br />is about 15 to 20 inches annually. <br />The site is accessed from Bison St., in the City of Cripple Creek, to the south <br />boundazy of the mining claim. The road bed is pre-existing and is roughly <br />perpendiculaz to the slope. The road bed is wide, well drained, and will not <br />require upgrading other than any safety requirements that may be imposed by <br />MSHA. <br />All of the area to be disturbed is made up of native soils that are associated <br />with open range grasslands. The soils present are moderately shallow, coarse to <br />medium, well drained loamy-skeletal. The swface layer is a grayish brown <br />gravely loam to gravely sandy loam of variable thickness that was observed to <br />range from one to fow inches. The subsoil is gravely, boulderly, sandy, or a <br />• sandy gravely clay matrix of vaziable thickness. The vegetation around the site <br />includes the following: <br />Grasses and grass-like plant: oat grass <br />Various wheat grasses, smooth brome fescue, <br />Cheat grass, day sedges, fringed sale, wavy thistle, <br />Mullein, various annual Forbes, current and gooseberry. <br />The operation is expected to have a minimal impact on wildlife during the <br />course of operations. The mining operation will have the effECt of immediately <br />displacing animals inhabiting the immediate azea (these aze very few because of <br />the lack of suitable cover, except for ground-dwelling rodents, and possibly a few <br />birds), and using the adjacent lands for foraging or hunting. Wildlife in the <br />general area includes species of lazge animals (mule deer & elk), small mammals <br />(rodents, cottontail rabbit, skunk, fox, coyote, and ground squirrels), and various <br />resident and seasonal birds including song birds, raptors, and other birds <br />(Mountain Chickadee, Junco, Raven Mountain Jays, Hawks, Flicker, Magpie, <br />Humming-birds, and owls}. <br />Page3, 110 <br />