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<br />i' <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />lJ <br /> <br />fJ <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br />IJ <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />34 <br />1 amendment addresses. I'm going to give a brief <br />2 overview, and then the design engineer, Rob Dorey, <br />3 will go into some depth on the technical aspects of <br />4 the tailings facility design. <br />5 This -- Battle Mountain Gold acquired <br />6 this site in 1987 and they did a successive <br />7 operator to an existing permit at that time, Permit <br />8 No. M-79051-HR. The existing permit was for an open <br />9 pit mine and heap leach at this site. <br />l0 Battle Mountain Gold evaluated the <br />11 property and believed that they had come up with a <br />12 more environmentally and economically sound manner <br />13 of going about extracting ore at the project, and <br />14 they submitted a new permit application t:o supersede <br />15 the existing permit last fall. That -- I'm sorry, <br />16 the fall of '88. <br />17 That permit was eventually approved by <br />18 the Board at the March 1989 Board meeting. That <br />19 permit included two open pit mines, five waste rock <br />20 disposal areas, plus waste rock disposal backfilling <br />21 one of the open pit mines. It included the removal <br />22 of 13 million tons of ore, half of which 'was to be <br />23 processed through heap leaching and the other half <br />24 of which was to be processed through a conventional <br />25 mill circuit, with the concentrates from that mill <br />AGREN, BLANDO & BILLINGS <br />