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<br />F.XHTATT A <br />MINING PLAN <br />The Willow Creek Mine is an open-pit placer operation <br />on a hillside with about a 108 slope. Approximately 5,000 yds' <br />of placer gravel has been extracted by previous owners over the <br />last twenty years. The placer is composed of sand, gravel, and <br />rock. <br />Operations in the pit will be handled by a D-8 bull- <br />dozer (or equivalent) with ripper teeth to loosen the gravels <br />so that a Cat 988 (or equivalent) front-end loader can scoop <br />them up and transport them to a vibrating hopper feeding an <br />8" grizzly. All -8" material will go through an apron feeder <br />and onto a 36" conveyer belt. All of these operations will be <br />at the existing pit on the Willow Creek #2 claim. Mining will <br />proceed northward and westward toward the Willow Creek #1. <br />Both claims are located in the NE ;, Sec. 6, R 80 W, T 11 S. <br />The belt conveyor will move -8" gravel to a 5' x 40' <br />trommel which screens at 7/8". All +7/8" material goes to a <br />stacker and will be stockpiled for use as backfill in the open <br />pit. The -7/8" material goes into a hopper which feeds a side- <br />by-side pair of 4' x 30' sluices. After the sluices are two <br />42" x 42" duplex jigs followed by another pair of 4' x 30' <br />sluices. Concentrates will be stored in 55 gallon drums. <br />Sluice tails will go to a settling pond (there will be two <br />unlined 10-acre ponds about 10 feet deep) and the water re- <br />circulated. All processing equipment and the ponds will be on <br />the patented Glacier claim (SW a, NW a, Sec. 5, and SE ;, <br />NW a, Sec. 6, R 80 W, T 11 S). <br />The concentrates, which are in drums, will be trucked <br />about '~ mile to a clean-up facility on a USFS special use <br />permit area in SE ;, Sec. 5, R 80 W, T 11 S, where a permanent <br />building will be erected to house this operation. ~~ <br />