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MINING PLAN <br />• <br />• <br />where needed, transportation corridors between the various mining areas and phases <br />and a buffer between the actual mining area and the permit boundary. Although <br />such a two-way delineation of the property is complex, it best describes the <br />operation on a map format. Flzrthermore, the definition of the permit boundary by <br />the gravel extraction limit would make a boundary that would be impossible to <br />define and equally difficult to enforce. As a result, the permit boundary, which <br />is larger than the extraction area, is definable with relatively straight lines <br />which often follow existing fencelines constructed along property boundaries. <br />OPERATION PHASING: The mining plan map shows the operation is divided into five <br />phases. These phases are defined by the estimated volume of gravel in relation to <br />the anticipated production rate and market demands. Each phase is approximately <br />equal in volume of gravel expected and therefore represent approximately equal <br />time periods to completion. <br />The phases would be operated more or less in the numbering order. Please be <br />aware that it is not possible to complete one phase before initiating the next <br />phase. Phase delineations are mainly intended to help identify more or less equal <br />time periods of operation and not necessarily operation units. Therefore, as one <br />phase is perhaps half way through with its extraction, portions of the next phase <br />might be initiated. One feature the phase concept does indicate however, is a <br />direction of mining as well as the estimated area of land which would be in some <br />stage of operation between stripping and seeding. <br />As a rule, each phase will be operated in more or less two directions at <br />C~ <br />once. On the large scale, the operation will move southward from the first to the <br />last phase. On the smaller scale the operation will tend to extract from west to <br />east. This accomplishes two ends. <br />page 3 of 10 Exhibit D <br />