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6.3.3 EXHIBIT C -MINING PLAN <br />A. Present plan for mining will start in the month of August beginning September <br />2009 after Permit approval. The 4.84 acre deposit is anticipated to have a life of <br />5-10 years. This pit will be used for construction materials such as road base, <br />landscape, and cement processes with secondary materials being precious metals, <br />gold and silver. <br />B. The depth of plant medium to be salvaged for reclamation will vary from 4" to <br />12". It is a hodden Sandy Loam topsoil with an adequate growth medium. <br />Topsoil will be pushed up in a berm around the boundary of the permitted area in <br />a 25' no mine buffer zone and be seeded as recommended by soil conservation <br />guidelines which is stream bank wheatgrass v. solar, western wheatgrass v. <br />rosanna, arizona fescue v. redondo, hard fescue blue grama, tufted hair grass, <br />strawberry clover, yarrow, rocky mountain. penstemon. This product will be used <br />for reclamation. <br />C. There is no waste rock to be stockpiled as the deposit starts right below topsoil. <br />There will be stockpiles of material for backfill. <br />D. The maximum depth of the deposit is 120 feet. Present indications are for 25 feet <br />in depth to be mined. <br />E. The major components of the mining operation are a trommel screen for washing <br />the gravel of sand, dirt and to capture gold that is a by product of the sand and <br />gravel which will be caught in the sluice box. As it flows out of the sluice box it <br />will flow into a sand screw. The sand screw will separate the sand and water. <br />The sand screw has overflows in which the water will return to a holding tank <br />which will cause any sediment to settle to bottom of tank. Water would flow <br />over the baffle into second part of holding tank where the water would be pumped <br />back through wash plant. When the water level becomes to full of sediment it <br />would be drained into a settling pond where it would go into the ground and the <br />tank would be refilled by a well at the rate of 20 gallons per minute. The wash <br />plant or trommel screen would be fed by a plate feeder to give a steady flow of <br />Y gravel to the trommel screen. A grizzly with a belt feeder under the grizzly would <br />take gravel to a plate feeder which would feed into the trommel. Washed gravel <br />would come out from the opposite end of the trommel onto conveyors to a shaker <br />screen where washed gravel would be sized to 3-4 different sizes. The washed <br />gravel would be stacked by 3-4 conveyors for each size. Sand up to 3/8 pea size <br />would be discharged from the sand screw which would go onto a conveyor and <br />stockpiled for sale and mixed with waste rock for reclamation.