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EXHIBIT D — MINING PLAN <br />The operation proposes to extract rock from the existing permitted <br />area by the owner Telluride Regional Airport Authority (TRAA) for use <br />as building stone and landscape blocks. <br />The operation anticipates starting on July 15, 2012. <br />The existing permitted area is 10.5 acres. The permitted area will be <br />apportioned into 4 quadrants of approximately 2.625 acres each, with <br />the dividing lines running north to south in the middle of the area and <br />east to west in the middle of the area. The 50 foot setback along the <br />southern edge of the permitted area will remain undisturbed as it is <br />presently, to maintain minimal visual impact. <br />TSC intends to begin mining and only mine within the North East <br />quadrant. The topsoil will be removed and stored along the south 50 <br />foot setback of the South West quadrant. The overburden will then be <br />removed and placed to the east of the stored topsoil. The staging area <br />which includes our stone splitters, generators and processing <br />equipment will be moved to the west which will be located at the <br />center of the permitted area. The extracted rock will be placed in <br />windrows to the west of the splitters. Stockpiles may be established <br />for incidental rubble that is hauled off site and processed by others for <br />gravel. These stockpiles will be established between the southern <br />permit boundary and the pit area, near the topsoil and overburden. <br />Packaging materials and finished palletized stone will be placed to the <br />north of the processing area, behind a berm. <br />TSC will excavate or mine to a depth not to exceed 50 feet. <br />TSC will begin excavating and mining approximately .30 acres in the <br />North East quadrant. The mining cycle includes topsoil removal, <br />removal of overburden material, mining of the sandstone layer, re- <br />filling the mined pit and completing the reclamation. As the operator <br />completes approximately .30 acre of mining, it will contemporaneously <br />fill and compact a portion the mined area with a series of lifts of waste <br />rock and overburden as it opens an equivalent portion of new area. <br />This finished area will then be contoured, topsoil applied and reclaimed <br />in accordance with the attached reclamation plan. At that time, an <br />area adjoining, either to the west or to the south of the originally <br />excavated .30 acres, will be excavated and mined. The direction of <br />mining, either south or west, will be undetermined until the quality of <br />