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-7- <br />• We've discussed all four of those items with both the applicant and the <br />objectors and Steve will summarize on that. I guess also, I will ask Steve <br />to, if he could briefly, that's a very complicated plan, but briefly for the <br />benefit of the board members who weren't there, give an overview of what the <br />mining and reclamation plan is, he can do that now, too. So, if there are no <br />other questions of me, I'd like to turn it over to Steve. <br />MR. RENNER: I'm Steve Renner with Mined Land Reclamation Division. Just <br />for a brief overview of the mining operation. (Indicating) Towards the top is <br />north, south. San Luis is about three or four miles this direction from this <br />operation. <br />Essentially what is going to occur is Battle Mountain Resources has <br />proposed to came into this area and mine two open pits. The first pit to be <br />extracted or excavated would be the East Pit Area. Ore from the east will be <br />hauled down to the facilities area, where it will be crushed to the <br />appropriate sizes. Approximately half the ore will be milled in the mill <br />• building itself, with the tailings being disposed in the south waste rock <br />tailings disposal area. About half the ore will end up being heap leached in <br />this yellow area. This is the leach facility. <br />As the east pit is being or nearing the end of its excavation, the West <br />Pit Area will open up. This is about a 110 acre open pit area, 'the maximum <br />depth below the surface on the south end is about 140 feet, I be'iieve. Both <br />pits are out of the 100 year, 24 hour flood plain for the Rito Seco. Again, <br />about half this ore will be transported to the mill facility where it will be <br />milled and the tailings disposed of in the south waste rock faci~iity, and the <br />other half of the ore will be leached in the heap leach facility.. <br />The heap leach facility's a double line system. It is an upper 60 mill <br />HDPE underlain by twelve inches of permeable gravels acting as the secondary <br />recovery or a leak detection system, The leak detection is underlain by <br />twelve inches of compacted soils amended with betonite to achieve 10 to the <br />minus 6 centimeters per second permeability. <br />Two ponds, pregnant and barren ponds, are located just immediately down <br />gradient from the heap leach facility. They are also double lined. They're <br />