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F~rhibit D <br />Mining Plan <br />The 89-acre area encompassed by the permit boundary shown on Exhibit <br />C/F is the Mascot Placer. Hence, the operation will be referred to as the Everist <br />Materials, Mascot Placer. The area contains a significant quantity of placer dredge <br />tailing previously placer mined with dredge boats. <br />As shown on Exhibit C/F, the 42 acres of Affected Land have already been <br />mined and future mining will (with only the exception of one additional creek <br />crossing for access) be limited to the dredge tailing itself. The Affected Land <br />boundary shown on the attached map has been carefully drawn to encompass <br />only placer dredge spoils (tailing). Hence, with the exception of the future access, <br />there is no undisturbed land within the Affected Land boundary. <br />In addition, all of the dredge tailing in this site is presently permitted for <br />mining, and some of it is covered by two MLR Permits. <br />1) Alpine Rock company obtained a 112 permit (referred to as the Swan <br />River Resource Operation) for 352 acres in 1993 which includes all of <br />the Affected Land applied for in this application. <br />2) Rock Island Land Company, LLC presently holds Permit #M1998-052, <br />a 110 Permit, for a portion of the area. <br />This application requests to convert the 110 Permit to a 112 permit. The <br />operation will be essentially the same as what Alpine Rock has been permitted to <br />do since1993, and to do essentially the same thing as Rock Island Land <br />Company, LLC (RILC) has been doing since 1998. <br />The commodities to be mined/extracted are the various common <br />aggregates required of all the construction and building industries everywhere for <br />road construction, asphalt, concrete, etc. <br />The dredged atlwial gravels will provide primary and secondary <br />commodities for use as aggregate products. Removing the dredge tailing piles will <br />provide an area with a much more stable configuration. At present, the only <br />benefcrai use of the land is mining - i.e., a source of aggregate materials. Removal <br />of the spoils will reclaim the area such that rt is suitable to any of a number of <br />beneficial uses other than mining. <br />The proposed post-mining land use (wildl'rfe) is compatible with the <br />surrounding land use. <br />The proposed Mining Plan is about as simple as it gets. The mining plan is <br />simply to remove the dredge tailing from the surface of the ground. Mining will not <br />extend to the water table. Mining will be limited to within 1.5 to 2.0 feet of the <br />water table. No mining activfties will take place in the river or adjacent wetlands. An <br />additional Access will be developed up stream that will affect a very small area. <br />4 <br />