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DETAIL <br />STATUS <br />Well Field Road extending from Main Retained by American Soda. <br />Roads Access road down to Test See Well Field Map for detail <br /> Mine bench and ponds and 8.0 2000 of roads that remain in place. <br /> roads accessing each well Some well field roads have <br /> _pad in the well field been reclaimed. <br />Test Mine Process building and control Retained by American Soda. <br />Facility and room building on bench with Well skids and piping <br />Ponds (see supply well 20-8. Two lined removed from P&A wells are <br /> <br />photo 11) process water ponds. staged on this pad along with <br /> boilers removed from <br /> 13 1997 processing plant. Ponds <br /> reclaimed initially in 2006. <br /> Drill seeded in 2007. Pond <br /> area is 8 acres. Test Mine <br /> Pad and road (5 acres) is still <br /> in use. <br />Pond Solids Lined excavation filled with Retained by American Soda. <br />Disposal approximately 5,000 cubic American Soda reclaimed 2 <br />Cell yards of non-hazardous acres initially in 2006. Area <br /> sodium mineral solids. 2 2006 was drill seeded in 2007. <br /> Capped with cement and <br /> soil. <br />Solution 34 well pads approximately See Table 2 - Status and <br />Mining Well 150' X 80' plus cut and fill 15 2000 Reclamation for Well Pads <br />Pads slopes and topsoil piles and Roads. <br />Total Disturbe d Acres Retained by American Soda (only the 46.8 <br />Photo 12 on the following page shows one view of the test mine bench in Yankee Gulch <br />as it looks today. From this view point the lower well field pump house is the large <br />green building flanked on the left side by two large boilers that were removed from the <br />main processing building prior to transfer of the building to oil and gas operators. Also <br />visible on the left side of the pad are several well skids containing the instrumentation <br />used at individual solution mining production wells. These skids have been removed <br />from the pads where the solution mining wells were plugged and abandoned. <br />The contoured and reclaimed area that was the former pad for production well 20-2 can <br />be seen on the terrace to the right of the test mine bench. The power line and main <br />well field access road define the upper edge of this area that was reclaimed in 2005. <br />American Soda. L.L.P. 12 <br />DRMS Annual Report <br />July 10. 2008