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u EXHIBIT A, B, E & H EXHIBIT A - Legal Description - Approximately 9.7 acres in the South 1/2 Southeast 1/4 Northwest 1/4 and the Northeast 1/4 Southwest 1/4 of Section 1, Township 8 North, Range 61 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. EXHIBIT B - Mining Plan - Mining is being, and will be accomplished, by surface earthmoving machines, primarily with a rubber-tired front end loader dumping into tractor-trailer dump trucks. Extraction of the dry alluvial material will be less than 20,000 tons per year. Approximately six acres of the site may be considered as a major disturbance area including both the excavated area and stockpiles from previous mining operations. The maximum area anticipated to be disturbed on the site is estimated to be nine acres. Mined area is above any ground water, thereby being a dry-pit operation. Useable material is near the surface with little or no overburden is relatively fine-grained with IOOq passing a 1-1/2" sieve, and is less than eight feet thick. The mega er topsoil, less than 6" thick, has been and will be pushed aside into small mounds y~- ozer or front end loader for future replacement. Operations have taken place throughout the site. As mining occurs in the future, the excavation will proceed northwesterly from the excavation area as shown on the map. EXH{B17 E - Reclamation Plan - All stockpiled material will be removed from the site or incorporated into the excavated area as part of the reclamation plan. As a large enough area is completed, the excavated area will be regraded to slopes flatter than three feet horizontal for each vertical foot. The finished area will be sloped to correspond to the natural drainage pattern of the surrounding area. The stockpiled topsoil will be placed uniformly on the graded surfaces at a thickness equal to the adjacent lands, in this case less than 6') using rubber-tired scrapers and bade graders. The finished surf{'aces will be seeded with grasses compatible [o the area during the season, and at such rates as recommended by the Soil Conservation Service and as detailed in Exhibit D. No trees or shrubs are anticipated in the reclamation process. The reclamation plan will result in a return of the area to the equivalent use of the adjacent native pastureland. EXHIBIT H - Reclamation Costs - Finish Grading - $ 4,000 Topsoiling - $ 3,000 Fertilizing - $ 1,000 Seeding - $ 800 Total Estimated Reclamation Costs - $ 8,80C.