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EXHIBIT D - RECLAMATION PLAN <br />Introduction <br />Review of the existing Golden Wonder reclamation permit identified the need to amend the <br />reclamation plan since a significant amount of change has, and will occur. Figure B.1 depicts <br />the proposed permit area boundary. Additional area was added in order to encompass the Level <br />3 pad and access road, as well as the Level 6 access road and additional pad area to compass the <br />Deadman Gulch channel etc.. In relation to the total area depicted within this Figure, there are <br />certain features that are excluded from the reclamation plan as follows; <br />Level 3 pad and associated features: These features occur within patented ground and <br />will likely remain much the same way as they occur now. The original reclamation plan <br />indicated that disturbed surfaces will be re-seeded and the entire setting will be <br />maintained to control storm-water. However, the Level 3 area land owner wishes to <br />retain usable working surfaces and will therefore keep the slope and pad surfaces as is. <br />• Level 3 and Level 6 access roads: Both roads traverse both public and private lands. The <br />private land owners retain the right of access allowed by these roads, as do the public <br />land trustees. The private land owners wish to retain the access allowed by the roads. It <br />is uncertain if the public land trustees need to achieve this same endpoint. Regardless, <br />the roads are currently (and will remain) in compliance with federal lands - stormwater <br />standards. The MSHA-related features (berms) will be removed prior to completion of <br />the reclamation, and used as part of the top-soil/cap for the waste rock reclamation effort <br />described below. <br />The remaining Golden Wonder features requiring reclamation are described by feature below. <br />The order in which they are presented, represents the time-line order in which they will be <br />reclaimed. For instance, the existing geotextile channel will be partially reclaimed in 2008 and <br />2009 in order to accommodate for the `amended' Deadman gulch channelization project. <br />This Exhibit was prepared based on the assumption that mining activity at the Golden Wonder <br />will occur in the same manner as it has historically - as it is described within the existing permit. <br />In other words, the mine plan has not been amended. Currently, the Golden Wonder is being <br />refurbished to meet MSHA standards and is being prepared for underground drilling. Until the <br />drilling is completed (anticipated Winter, 2008), and the results are interpreted (anticipated early <br />Spring, 2009); a revised mine plan cannot be accomplished. It is likely that the magnitude of <br />activity/disturbance put forward by the current operator will be comparable to the historic <br />activities. In the mean time, all permit conditions/restrictions previously put in place (e.g. no <br />dumping of waste rock material down the slope face etc.) will be adhered to.