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Nuvemco, LLC's Monogram Mine M-1978-222UG <br />Response to Preliminary Adequacy Review <br />March 10, 2009 <br />Section 3, Fxploration <br />300 chill holes are noted for reclamation but not described in the mine plan. Please clarify. <br />The description of drilling plans has been added to Exhibit D, Mining Plan Section 3 on page 4 <br />of this response. <br />Section 4, reseeding: <br />(a) There are no details on what hazardous or dangerous adits, shafts, and erodible roads and trails will be <br />reclaimed. Please provide details. <br />The Mine plan states less than 5 acres will be disturbed, However in the reclamation plan it specifically notes <br />32 acres. Please clarify is staff to assume 5 acres or the 3.2? <br />Open or partially reclaimed adits are shown on the reproduced USGS topographic base map at <br />the northern end of the Happy Thought, Bob Tail and Breen Back claims. Nuvemco anticipates <br />finding more during the drilling phase of exploration. These open adits or shafts will be <br />investigated for potential reopening, or closed and reclaimed during the exploration phase, or <br />when the mining operations are completed. The existing road/trail on the east end of the <br />Monogram claim crosses steep terrain and may be improved or abandoned in accordance with <br />the landowners preferences. <br />Table E-1 has been modified to match the mining plan. <br /> Existing Disturbed Total Disturbed Area Disturbance to be <br />Area Description (acres) (acres) reclaimed (acres <br />Staging Area with berms 0.9 1.0 1.0 <br />Monogram Pit disturbed 1.5 2.0 2.0 <br />area <br />Overburden Stockpile 0 0.2 0.2 <br />Portal/adit investigations 0.4 1.0 1.0 <br />Exploration borehole sites 2.0 4.1 2.1 <br />Estimated acreage 7.8 8.3 6.3 <br />disturbed <br />The current surface land owner prefers that the general area be left as is for recreational purposes <br />with reclamation being limited to filling in hazardous or dangerous adits and shafts and erodible <br />roads or trails. Thus, only an additional 3.5 acres will be disturbed and reclamation will be <br />limited to about 6.3 acres. Most of the planned disturbance is reclaimed concurrently such as the <br />sections of the Monogram Mine or individual boreholes and thus costs are ongoing. Assuming <br />that all re-vegetation reclamation was completed at the end of the mining project, costs, <br />including re-contouring the land surface, scarifying, and seeding and mulching (certified weed <br />free hay or straw mulch) is estimated to have a unit cost of about $1,100/acre; a total of <br />$6,930.00. <br />11