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:~~. `~~ • • 11111111111llllllll <br />BUFFALO #1 <br />EXHIBIT A - Legal Description <br />Section 34, SE 4, NE y, and NE 4, SE4 of Section 33,T7S, <br />R62L4. Section 4, and NWy of Section 3, TBS, R62W, <br />6th P.M., containing 1522 acres more or less, Five <br />acres affected. <br />EXHIBIT B - Mining Plan <br />Buffalo #1 is an open pit clay mine in the Dawson Formation. <br />The clay lies flat in the top of small buttes. The overburden is <br />composed of a natural calcined clay and beneath the calcined material <br />is a forty (40) foot vein of clay. The top soil is approximately <br />three (3} feet in depth. The clay is mined with an HD-11 Cat, there- <br />fore there are no highwalls at this particular site. <br />The open pit was started in a southeasterly direction and will <br />end in a southwesterly direction. <br />The overburden is stockpiled <br />on the southwest side of the pit. <br />EXHIBIT C - Map <br />See attached. <br />EXHIBIT D - Wildlife, Water Resources, Vegetation and Soils information <br />See attached Wildlife Statement. <br />See attached Soil Conservation Service Statement. <br />EXHIBIT E- Reclamation Plan <br />As we advance with the pit the overburden is used as fill and <br />the land sloped to conform with the adjacent areas. Since there <br />is no irrigation water we must depend entirely on rain and snowfall <br />for reclamation purposes. In order to stabilize the area until the <br />clay is all mined we propose that the area be allowed to return to <br />rangeland. <br />Reclamation work will proceed by contouring the pit to the <br />adjacent land. This work will be done with the HD-lI Cat, leaving <br />the area with through drainage and slopes no steeper than 3:1. <br />Topsoil from the stockpiles will be moved over the entire <br />effected area with the HD-11 Cat. The topsoil will be approximately <br />-1- <br />