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EXHIBIT D - MINING PLAN <br />a. The topsoil and overburden will be removed from any area currently being <br />mined and stockpiled around the perimeter of the permitted area. <br />b. The resource will be removed and transported to the processing area with <br />front-end loaders. Material processing occurs on-site. As the resource is <br />removed from the active mining area, it is transported to a processing area where it <br />will be screened and crushed. Sized material is then loaded onto trucks for <br />transport off-site, or taken to a wash plant for washing and further sizing. <br />The excavation equipment that will be used at this site consists of front-end <br />loaders, dozers, backhoes, graders, excavators and gravel trucks. Processing <br />equipment at the site consists of jaw, 2 cone crushers and 1 screening plant with <br />related conveyor belt systems to service the crushers, jaws and screen. The <br />applicant would like the option to include a wash plant for future use if there is a <br />need for washed products. The applicant would also like the option to include a <br />portable asphalt batch plant/and or portable concrete plant at a later date. These <br />would be for specific jobs and would not be located at this site for the life of the <br />permit. <br />C. This is a dry mining operation as groundwater is believed to be <br />approximately 60 feet below the surface. This operation will not expose <br />groundwater during the mining of the site. The draw in the middle of the site does <br />not show signs of encountering groundwater in the permitted area. <br />If a wash plant is used at some time during the operation the settling pond at the <br />site will be used only for water discharged from the wash plant. Groundwater will <br />not seep into the settling pond. The water and material discharged from the wash <br />plant will be allowed to settle out the fines, then reused to wash materials. A <br />small amount of water may seep back into the ground. <br />No earthen dams used to impound water will be constructed at this site. <br />d. The area of disturbance will be limited to 7.5 acres in phase I and 7.5 acres <br />in phase Il. All stockpiles will also be within these limits. The permitted area <br />contains a natural draw which runs east to west in the approximate center of the 15 <br />acre parcel. Phase I will begin on the east one-half of the permitted area by <br />widening the draw to accommodate our crushers and stockpiles. The material will <br />Rev 11/20/09