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~e <br />C <br />MINING PLAN <br />- _.. . <br />The topsoil and vegetation will be removed from the permit area using scrapers. <br />The topsoil will be stockpiled for reclamation on the north side of the haul road <br />and seeded to stabilize the stockpile. <br />Extraction from the pit area will commence on the west end of the permit area <br />with mining conducted in either a north to south or south to north direction. <br />The material will be extracted from a wet pit by the use of either a dragline or <br />a backhoe. The wet material will be piled into a windrow to allow the water to <br />drain. After a few days when the material has drained sufficiently, the material <br />will be loaded by a front end loader onto conveyors for processing by the sand <br />and gravel plant. During the mining operation, the sand and gravel will be <br />extracted to the underlying blue shale which occurs approximately 25 to 30 feet <br />beneath the surface. <br />As the material is mined and processed any waste materials, primarily the fine <br />factions, will be returned to the pond created by the mining for reclamation. <br />After processing in the crushing-screening plant, the finished material will <br />be loaded into trucks by a front end loader and hauled from the area via the haul <br />road. <br />! ',. <br />i5• <br />