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January 10, 2013 <br />Memo to: Mr. Mike Cunningham / Division of Reclamation Mining <br />and Safety: <br />Reference: Cross Gold Mine Permit: M- 1977 -410 <br />Subject: Map for attachment to Annual Report sent on November 03, <br />2012: By: Thomas S. Hendricks / Mine Manage / Vice President <br />Descriptions: <br />A: Location A on the attached map is where work started on the <br />portal area for the proposed ramp decline. The small excavation took <br />place in an area where historic disturbance occurred in the 1920's and <br />1930's. A cut in the hillside 40 feet south of the existing Cross Mine <br />snow shed was excavated by a John Deere Hydraulic excavator for a <br />width of 30 feet and a height of 45 feet. (1350 sq. feet). The <br />excavation was continued to hit the bedrock interface. The top soil <br />and alluvial cover and rocks were stocked piled immediately east of <br />the new heading. Large rocks were used for a rock wall and the <br />material was ramped up with the Komatsu 3 yard loader. Work had to <br />stop on this excavation as funding ran out. 500 tons of the soil and <br />alluvial cover was hauled by Keeter Trucking from the Cross Gold <br />Mine to the adjacent Caribou mine yard which is also a historic mine <br />dump area. Both at the Cross Mine and the Caribou Mine, the <br />material was placed on historically disturbed and existing dump rock <br />as to not create any new disturbance. The material hauled to the <br />Caribou dump area shown as "D" on the map, will be used in the <br />future for the planned new roadway between the Cross and Caribou <br />mines. <br />