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Hard Rock/Metal Mining Permit Application <br />Limited Impact Operation (110(2)) <br />Venture Resources, Inc. - Emma Mine <br />Exhibit C - Mining Plan <br />The "Garland" Shaft, located on the Emma Lode Mineral Survey #7261, is an existing 240' (approx.) shaft. This is <br />connected with the 2nd underground level of the Dove's Nest mine (MS# 5947). <br />The shaft is currently open without a collar or enclosure, as shown in Figure 1. Immediately upon commencement <br />of mining operations, once approved around September 1, 2008, a shaft collar/closure will be constructed according <br />to Exhibit E. <br /> <br />I?J <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Figure I - Garland Shaft Openin g, June 2, 2008 <br />An existing 20'x20' bench on the surface, west and adjacent to the shaft, will be used for the construction of a <br />12'x]6' tool storage shed. A 25'x30' concrete pad will be constructed adjacent to and cast of the shaft opening for <br />short term storage (less than 30 days) of ore and staging of operations. A 12'x 16' hoist building will be constructed <br />adjacent to and north of the shaft. This will be for a future electric hoist and air compressor. <br />The vein, as exposed in the Garland Shaft, dips 45° northerly and is 3'-8' wide. Mining will commence by re- <br />timbering the shaft. Stope till and vein ore will be produced at a rate of approximately 40 tons/day with a <br />maximum of 100 tons/day. The pad to the east of the shaft will be used as a temporary stock pile area (less than 30 <br />days). All material produced and removed from the mine will be removed from the site for offsite processing. A <br />front end loader and 10 cu. yd. dump truck will be used to transport this material offsite. <br />Mill tailings may be returned to the mine, amounting upto 100 tons/day, and transmitted down the Garland Shaft as <br />a water based slung via a 2" HDPE pipeline. The tailings will then be impounded in their permanent storage place <br />in the abandoned stopes within the mine. These stope fill areas will be appropriately and properly designed and <br />constructed to suit the specific mine conditions and to insure the compact consolidation and secure containment of <br />the slurry solids. The tailings solids will settle quickly and compactly within the limited confines of these stope <br />storage areas. Tailings storage areas are isolated and they are located a minimum of thirty feet down-dip from the <br />surface. <br />Intermediate sumps will be constructed within the stope fill areas to collect decanted/settled water. This water is <br />needed to be recycled so that new tailings can be slurried for the impoundment process to continue as described <br />previously. This recycling process involves a submersible electric pump that delivers the water via a 1 '/." HDPE <br />pipe to a 10,000 gallon steel water tank located at the surface, to the northwest of the shaft opening, as shown on <br />Exhibit E.