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&Y///917- M-(4) <br />EXHIBIT D <br />JUBILEE VENTURE LLC <br />EAGLE MINE PROJECT <br />MINING PLAN <br />The mining method to be employed is "open cast" with the permit area to be broken up into a plant site <br />area where a gravity separation plant to separate the gold and perhaps other minerals (silver and rare <br />earths) if an effective way to recover them can be found. Except for a place for water storage and <br />another for temporary tailings storage, the remainder of the permit area will be broken up into strips as <br />shown on the mine plan map as "panels". These strips are 80 ft. wide and parallel to the west side of <br />the permit area until the shape of the permit area imposes modification. An 80 ft. wide strip along the <br />south edge of the permit area provides for a roadway access to almost all the other panels. <br />Each panel will be mined to its end after stripping the topsoil back for storage in windrows on the <br />adjoining panel and doing the same with overburden although it doesn't appear that there will be any <br />overburden but perhaps interburden between two gold bearing horizons. If a panel plus will be mined <br />each year, the operation will last about 10 years. <br />The topsoil and overburden stripping will be done with a bulldozer assisted by a front end loader to <br />move stripped material back onto an adjoining panel and out of the way where it will be stockpiled in <br />windrows pending reclamation. Nominally, 1 panel plus around 70 feet of another panel will be mined <br />in a season, May 1" to October 30`h. <br />Mining and ore transport, as well as tailings backfill transport, will be done with a 3 cubic yard to 6 cubic <br />yard front end loader which will also assist with stripping. There will also be a track type Bobcat loader <br />which will be used for cleanup and finish work during reclamation. Other equipment on site a good <br />part of the time will be a bulldozer, backhoe-loader, a welding truck, a generator or generators of 60KW <br />to 125KW capacity, and support vehicles, probably 2 pickups, with on board diesel storage to fuel the <br />generators and other diesel powered equipment. In addition, because this operation will be from 15 to <br />35 miles from the nearest communities, there will be personal transportation for some of the workers <br />and perhaps ATVs for people moving. Sanitation will be supplied by a regularly serviced sanilet. <br />The processing plant is a gravity concentrator which uses water to slurry the ore which is then pumped <br />to screens, agitators, hydro cyclones, and spirals (one of the gravity concentrating units). The final spiral <br />product will feed onto a vibrating table which makes the final gravity product. There are various takeoff <br />points from the processing plant where treated ore in slurry will go to a tailings pond. The tailings will <br />be nearly equal in volume to the feed to the plant. The vibrating table will have to be housed and/or an <br />office workshop will be required. If feasible, the entire plant may be hosed to extend the operating <br />season. The vibrating table will be mounted in a closed in structure and placed on a 8' wide by 14' long <br />by 2' thick concrete slab. <br />As mining progresses down, the length of the panel and enough room is created for equipment to <br />operate, tailings will start being hauled to the mined outside of the work area, so that as mining <br />progresses, tailings backfill will be emplaced on essentially a volume for volume basis. At the end of the <br />panel, whatever tailings will be required to fully backfill the working area will be delivered and the <br />