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MINING PLAN EXHIBIT C <br />Of the 9.99 acres ± in the permit area, approximately 8.00 <br />acres ± will be mined, 2.17 acres is old mined area, some of which <br />will be mined and 0.83 acres ± will be setbacks around the mined <br />area. These setbacks are shown on the Mining Plan Map and are 15 <br />feet wide except along the east side where a 25 foot setback will <br />be maintained. Plans are to eventually expand the mining area to <br />the west and south so smaller setbacks are used to maximize the <br />reserves we can removed during this first Phase of permitting. <br />The sand and gravel will be excavated using frontend loaders <br />and dozers, it will be processed on site where screening and crush- <br />ing and stockpiling will be done. The processing plant will be <br />placed close to the mines working face each time it is moved in for <br />processing so the plant site and stockpile area will follow mining. <br />Mining will be done by loading material from the working face into <br />the processing plant or trucks with a frontend loader. As the <br />deposit deepens we may begin to push material from the upper <br />reaches of the mine to the floor. The RECLAMATION MAP - E-2 shows how <br />we think the area will look when mining ends and reclamation is <br />complete. <br />On-site equipment may include, but is not limited to, a motor <br />grader, front-end loaders, motor scrapers, a dozer, conveyors, a <br />crushing and screening plant, dump trucks and a water truck. <br />Processing will be done on site to build material stockpiles that <br />will be removed as needed. <br />A large stockpile of specification aggregates will be created <br />on the site as mining progresses. Once there is an adequate sup- <br />ply, the processing plant will be moved to another site and the <br />processed material will be removed as needed. We expect the mine <br />to operate year around with periods of inactivity when adverse <br />weather conditions exist. There may be periods when no activity <br />takes place on the mine because there is no demand for material. <br />We can not estimate how long these periods of inactivity will be, <br />but may last up to 6 months or more. <br />When topsoil is encountered it will be stripped and stockpiled <br />around the perimeter of the site or on the mine floor for use in <br />reclamation. We will place an average of 8 inches of salvaged <br />topsoil on the mined area. Some of the material processed will not <br />be suitable for our needs, this reject material will be used to <br />rebuild slopes around the mine. Some of the salvaged overburden <br />can be used to supplement the salvaged topsoil so there is enough <br />to resoil the redisturbed old mine area even thought there is <br />little soil on the 2.17 acre ± area at this time. If the soil <br />23