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MINING PLAN EXHIBIT D (CONT) bench will be lowered to the road level. The MINING PLAN MAp shows how we believe the site will look when mining has reached the final floor elevation along the road and the face is being mined to the north. As mining progresses a face will be opened from west to east across the property. The mine face will the be worked north along the width of the property. This will create a level area where mining related activities will take place. The processing equip- ment, and material stockpiles will be located on a portion of the level area created by mining. In addition, the topsoil piles and root zone material will be stored here until needed. Reclamation will run concurrent with mining to reduce the amount of disturbance at any one time. Due to the nature of this mine and the expected market demands, it may be 10 years or more before any reclamation would be necessary. As an example the Mining Plan Map depicts how the site would look after approximately 10 years if 500,000 tons per year were removed from the site. At this time the only reclamation that would be complete is the recoiling and seeding on the benches along the east and west sides where mining is complete. As mining progresses the final bench face on the sides will remain stable on an overall 1:1 sloping rate. The main floor and working benches would still be in an active mining area. As show on the map approximately 26.55 acres has been dis- turbed and 2.23 acres ± is reclaimed leaving 24.32 acres ± in the active mine area. This parcel can be broken into two distinct areas, the area to be mined and area that will not be disturbed. The undisturbed areas include the setbacks around the mined area, part of the hillside on the southeast and the areas along the drainages in the northeast and northwest corners. By leaving these areas undis- turbed the operator will reduce the visual impacts by hiding the mined area behind natural hillsides along the east and west sides of the mine. The mine floor will be approximately 100+ feet above the surrounding land on the south and east where the visual impacts would be the greatest. While there will be some visual impact if one were to look down on the site, most of the activities in the mine will be hidden, if kept back from. the edge of the floor. The growth medium piles will be stored along the southern edge of the mine floor to limit the view of the floor and processing activities in the mine from County Road 55. The working faces and benches will be visible from the south as they are higher that surrounding lands. Most of the bench area will not be visible from the east, 6