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EXHIBIT E <br />JUBILEE VENTURE, LLC <br />EAGLE MINE PROJECT <br />RECLAMATION PLAN <br />(MODIFIED) <br />To begin this section, all materials to be mined (primarily a clean sandstone) are without sulfide <br />minerals as they all will be from the oxidized zone above the water table. <br />The water used in processing will come from a well which will intercept a ground water aquifer <br />below the plant site and, indeed, below the entire ore body. No chemicals will be used in the <br />process and whatever water is returned to the ground water will be uncontaminated. <br />As noted in the Mining Plan, as mining proceeds the length of a panel, mill tailings will follow the <br />mining face as closely as possible while leaving equipment room to operate. When a panel has <br />been mined to its limit, the last of the mined area will be backfilled to that limit. The process of <br />backfilling will restore the panel surface to very close to its pre-mining contours. The final <br />restoration to pre-mining contours will be accomplished by putting stripped overburden or <br />interburden, (if there is any), on top of the tailings and finally covering the entire area with the <br />topsoil which was stripped and stockpiled before mining began. All waste rock and tailings will <br />be used during reclamation.(*** From field investigation it appears that topsoil is 6" to 12" thick <br />and will be about the same as it is replaced in the area from which it came.***) <br />The BLM was consulted as to the appropriate seed mix to be used in reclamation. A copy of its <br />recommendation is included which includes the proper rate for application and the <br />recommendation that seeding be done as late in the fall as possible. <br />As noted in the mining plan, when mining gets to the formerly dredged area, it is not known if <br />enough topsoil can be recovered to fully cover the mined area in the last stage of reclamation. <br />The dredging processed everything from the surface down to the total depth excavated. The <br />only possible topsoil that might be recovered is that under the tailings where they were side <br />delivered by the dredge after processing. An attempt will be made to recover that buried <br />topsoil and perhaps it will be adequate for covering the reclaimed area in that panel(,*** The <br />replaced topsoil will probably be over 2" to 3" thick, certainly not over 6". (dredged area)***) <br />There will be some compaction of the area to be reclaimed within a panel just be the travel of <br />equipment across the surface while spreading overburden or interburden, if any, and the <br />topsoil. This compaction should not be great enough to require scarifying but the haulage ways <br />might. They could be scarified or ripped prior to the final covering activities (overburden and <br />topsoil spreading). It should not be necessary to range drill the seed into the former haul roads <br />with the cover on top of them. <br />7? I, 2