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1 <br /> 1 <br /> HXHIBTT B <br /> Vegetation Information <br /> No rare, threatened, or endangered plant species have <br /> ' been identified in the Gold Hill area, or an the <br /> proposed mill and mine sites. The previously submitted <br /> Cash Mine Permit Application included descriptions and <br /> lists of the trees, grasses, £orbs, and shrubs that have <br /> ' been identified in this area. <br /> The present vegetation on the land surface that will be <br /> ' affected by the operation of the mill and tailings <br /> retention structure, varies from scattered to moderately <br /> vegetated. Because of their acidic nature and poorly <br /> ' developed soil profile, the mine dumps have a vegetation <br /> cover that consists of a few small stands of Ponderosa <br /> pine and low shrubs on their eastern and southern faces. <br /> The percentage of ground covered by vegetation can be <br /> ' directly attributed to the date or period of the last <br /> mining and milling activity on the property. Common <br /> Juniper and Kinnikinnik are the most abundantly small <br /> shrubs that are found in this location; and they cover <br /> about 10 percent of the ground. The rest of the ground <br /> surface is composed of either small outcrops of Boulder <br /> ' Creek granite, or waste dump material from the numerous <br /> prospect pits and trenches that were dug along the Oscar <br /> and Hercules veins. <br /> ' Soils Information <br /> The U. S. Department of Agriculture' s Soil Conservation <br /> ' Service has mapped this area as the Juget-Rock Outcrop <br /> Complex. Small areas of Peyton soils near drainageways <br /> and a few small areas of Allens Park soils are included <br /> ' in this soil series and rock outcrop complex. A <br /> detailed description of the Juget-Rock Complex and the <br /> Peyton and Allens Park soils was contained within the <br /> previously submitted application for a limited impact <br /> ' permit for the Cash mine operation. <br /> A large portion of the affected land surface subject to <br /> this application for a mining permit is composed of <br /> waste dump material from previous mining operations <br /> dating back to the 18701s. None of the land surface <br /> disturbed by these earlier operations was reclaimed. No <br /> ' soil has developed on the faces of the proposed milling <br /> area. The areas surrounding the margins of the mine <br /> dumps have a soil cover that varies from zero to a <br /> ' maximum of four or five inches in and among numerous <br /> outcrops of Boulder Creek granite. The upper extent of <br /> Cash Gulch contains small areas of Peyton series soils <br /> ' in the drainageway between the Hazel A. mine and the <br />