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125 <br />• <br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />lick our fingers because they will be -- that mud <br />will have cyanide in it. <br />(Next slide.) <br />MR. JAQUEZ: This is an area that's <br />C~ <br /> <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />very familiar to the locals. It's called the <br />Cottonwoods area of the Rito Seco. This i:s now <br />moving -- looking north. This is the area that is <br />going to be reduced to a giant pit, the west pit <br />(indicating). <br />(Next slide.) <br />MR. JAQUEZ: This is the olc9 O.J. <br />mine site (indicating). This is about a four-acre <br />leach pad. It had a sprinkling system on ii.t. The <br />gold-containing cyanide solution would run down into <br />these sumps or reservoirs (indicating). <br />(Next slide.) <br />MR. JAQUEZ: The gold ore which is <br />under the snow right now is piled up to about three <br />or four feet. It is somewhat different technology. <br />The Battle Mountain technology is certainly going to <br />be more sophisticated. They would use the sprinkler <br />systems and again the solution would run downhill. <br />(Next slide.) <br />MR. JAQUEZ: This reclamation here -- <br />in 1975 the Environmental Protection Agency and the <br />