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October Ore Pile Reclamation Exhibit C <br />110(d) Limited Impact Permit Application <br />Nuvemco LLC <br />6.3.3 (1) (c) Overburden removed <br />NA. No overburden or waste rock will be disturbed. <br />6.3.3 (1) (d) Mined Thickness <br />No actual mining will occur. An existing ore pile covering about 0.35 acres with <br />an average depth of about 7 feet will be removed from the site. <br />6.3.3 (1) (e) Mining Components <br />No buildings, storage, mining equipment, etc. are involved. A front loader will be <br />on site for about six weeks. <br />6.3.3 (1) (f) Surface Disturbance <br />Approximately 0.35 acres which is disturbed will be improved by the removal of <br />the ore pile, placement of soil, grading to original contours, seeding and mulching. <br />6.3.3 (1) (g) Roads <br />The October Ore Pile Reclamation site is within 15 feet of an existing mining road <br />that is in good condition. Trucks will be loaded at the ore pile and travel north and then <br />west about 0.8 miles to a junction with improved Mesa County Road Z 2.40 which will be <br />followed about 2.3 miles west to the intersection with Mesa County 4.40 Road (John <br />Brown Road). Ore trucks will then follow John Brown Road east and north about 6.9 <br />miles to Colorado State Highway 141. Nuvemco will contract hauling of the ore to the <br />White Mesa Mill in Blanding, Utah for processing. From the John Brown Road <br />intersection trucks would travel southeasterly on Colorado State Highway 141 to <br />Colorado State Highway 90; then west where the highway becomes Utah State Highway <br />46 and continuing to La Sal Junction, then south on US Highway 191 to Blanding, Utah. <br />6.3.3 (1) (h) Water consumption <br />None. <br />6.3.3 (1) (i) Groundwater and surface water disturbances <br />NA. No subsurface activities will occur and no ground or surface waters will be <br />intercepted or disturbed. See additional details in 6.4.20 (8). <br />6.3.3 (1) (j) Compliance with Colorado water laws <br />NA. No water will be consumed or impacted. <br />6.3.3 (1) (k) Protection from toxic materials <br />The ore pile is currently exposed and has been in place for about 25 years. The <br />face of the ore pile will be will be temporarily exposed during daily loading operations. <br />The drainage ditch adjacent to the existing mining road will prevent any uphill run-on of <br />precipitation to the site. At the end of each day of loading, the loader operator will <br />construct a berm from the underlying onsite soil and rock to protect the exposed face <br />and edge from run-on and to prevent any precipitation from washing freshly exposed ore <br />from the site. Following is an image acquired from Google Earth. <br />17