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-I- <br />MR. DANIELSON: Battle Mountain Resources. <br />MR. RENNER: I need to note a correction before we get started. This is <br />number thirteen and it is a typo, this is not a formal public hearinn. <br />MR. DANIELSON: Okay, it is not a formal public hearing. The issue is <br />whether we should have a formal public hearing. <br />MR. RENNER: Right. This is 88-112. The issue, well, the Board actually <br />has two decisions to make. Everyone has received a copy of the letters I sent <br />out last week; right? If you don't, I have copies with me here. The Board <br />today needs to decide whether to accept the request for the public hearings. <br />If you decide to accept those requests for public hearings, then you need to <br />decide whether there is sufficient grounds to have the public hearing; and if <br />so, we'll set the date which, as I understand the reps, would be tihirty days, <br />or the next Board meeting. <br />I'd like to just start real quick, I think you probably all heard a <br />little bit about the Battle Mountain project. I've got a map of the proposed <br />operation up here on the board. I'll start from the right and move down to <br />the left. <br />In the right hand portion, you see two purple colored areas. Those will <br />be the two proposed pits, the east and west pits. The larger's about 110 <br />acres and the smaller is about 20 acres. You can kind of use that for a scale <br />for the rest of the facilities. <br />Just to the left of the larger pit are three brown areas. Those will be <br />waste disposal areas. Immediately below the far left waste disposal area, is <br />a combination mill tails and waste rock disposal area. Just below that, kind <br />of shaded grayish black, will be the mill area; and immediately below that, <br />colored yellow, is the cyanide heap leach area. The little orange area off to <br />the left of the pad would be a barrow area for material to build the <br />underliner. <br />The location of this operation is about 2 miles northeast of the town of <br />San Luis, in Costilla County. I guess the order I want to do this in is to <br />have a little bit of an overview. I'll tell you why we're here, were we are <br />at in the process today. I was going to have Frank Johnson address you. He's <br />