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Technical Revision -Exhibit D <br />Mine Plan <br />Location <br />The mine surface facilities will be located in the SW%4 SW%4, Section 27, and T.48N. R.17W. <br />NMPM, Montrose County, Colorado. The portal to be used is an existing adit (only pre- <br />Reclamation Act work has been done here) known as the Wright Mine, which goes northwazd <br />into the rim of the San Miguel Bench on the south side of Spring Creek Mesa. This is on private <br />land owned by the applicant, Cotter Corporation. <br />Access <br />The Mine site is accessed by taking Montrose County Road U-18 northeastwazd from Colorado <br />Highway 141, at 0.1 mile north of mile marker 76, across from the abandoned town site of <br />Uravan, for 1.5 miles. Then take a left turn (west) onto Montrose County Road U-17 for about <br />0.8 mile to the Wright Mine Site. Another 1.5 mile northwestward on U-17 is the already <br />permitted and mostly reclaimed SM-18 Mine site. <br />Surface Plant <br />No permanent structures will be canstructed at the Wright Mine Site. Surface disturbance will <br />consist of: <br />I) Building a ramp from the portal elevation (i.e. top of existing waste dump) to the <br /> elevation of the bench that the county road lies on (i.e. azea referred to as "Pad"on <br /> Exhibit C). <br />2) Building a haul road from the pad area to and along the east side of county road U-17, <br /> approximately 300 feet total length, to the proposed waste dump and ore stockpile area. <br /> The pad will also be used as an ore stockpile area. The haul road on the east side of the <br /> county road will be 16 ft. wide with an adjoining strip up to 50 feet wide to allow for <br /> parking, etc. <br />3) A relatively flat area of about 4.0 acres will be used for a waste rock dump and ore <br /> stockpiles at the north end of the haul road. All available topsoil or other material <br /> suitable for coverage during reclamation will be stripped from this azea and stockpiled <br /> prior to waste rock placement. <br />4) An office trailer, fuel tank, equipment storage, and any ancillary equipment or supplies <br /> will be placed either in the Pad azea or the Parking area, depending on logistics. <br />5) Berms will be constructed around the waste dump area to preclude stormwater from the <br /> small (~ 25 acre) drainage basin from contacting the waste or stockpiled ore. This will <br /> all occur on land owned by Cotter Corporation. <br />6) All mining will be underground. Conventional drill blast stoping in random room-and- <br /> pillar method, will begin at the end of the Wright Mine workings, which is at the property <br /> line, near the southwest corner of the D.O.E. Lease Block, C-SM-18. Mined rock will be <br /> transported to the surface along the Wright Mine haulage drift, some 2000 feet long. <br /> This drift will be widened, as needed, to accommodate mining equipment. Very little <br /> ground support is needed since this drift was driven in a competent sandstone bed. <br />. Development drifts will be driven farther north and northeast from the Wright Mine <br /> stopes to access the known reserves. Given the current economic conditions of mining <br /> costs and mazket prices for Uranium and Vanadium, the life of the mine is anticipated to <br /> be two to five years. <br /> SM-18 Application for Technical Revision -Page 3 - 7/14/2004 <br />