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General Information <br />• Legal Location: The Cash Mine and Who-Do Mina entrances are located in the southeast '/< <br />of Section 24, Township 1 North, Range 72 West. The mine property extends into the other <br />three quadrants of Section 24 and includes approximately 300 acres. The center of the <br />property is located at N 40° 3.701' and W 105° 23.866'. <br />• Minerals Mined: gold <br />• Dates of Operation {Mount Royal Ventures): Mazch 2005 to present (see History above for <br />earlier operators) <br />• Affected Areas: <br />Cash Mine = 2.80 acres (Cash Shaft/Cash Dump area) <br />Who-Do = 2.46 acres (just Who-Do area, plus roads above) <br />Mount Royale = 4.59 acres {new drift below Cash Shaft driven by MRV) <br />Millsite = 839 acres <br />• Receiving Waters: Cash Gulch (ephemeral) is on the site. Gold Run is a small creek <br />approximately 2,000 feet south of the active mining area Gold Run eaters Fourmile Creek <br />approximately 1.6 miles southeast of the active mining area. The ultimata receiving water is <br />Boulder Creek, approximately 5 miles southeast of the mine site. <br />Description of Mining Activities <br />The mining method used by MRV in the Cash Mine is called resuing or stripping, which is a type <br />of sloping. The thin veins are mined vertically and along strike by drilling and blasting. Raises <br />and ore shales are blasted first from the drift located at the base of the future slaps. After the <br />raise and chutes are installed mining commences vertically. The ore is blasted first and removed <br />from the slope by slasher. The waste is blasted next, and lefr in place (lefr in the slope}. The <br />waste material is than used as a platform to drill from, for the next round. -The only material to <br />leave the slope is ore material; waste material is necessary in the slope to continue to climb <br />upward. The slope climbs vertically until it reaches another level, the surface, or the vein <br />pinches. <br />The ore material is loaded into rail cars and pulled out of the mine by abattery-powered <br />locomotive. From the portal the ore is hauled to the mill by dump truck. The entire mine runs <br />from air or battery power, there is no diesel equipment used underground. <br />Ore is milled in the mill building using a combination of physical and chemical processes- Water <br />from the milling operations is recycled in the tailings pond, which is azero-discharge system. <br />~:a,;,,~:irwn~~vr~-rU„s,~,.,.,~.~fl~v9 2 <br />November 1, 1949 <br />