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�r <br />EXHBIT C: Mining Plan <br />(a) The timing for the process is hard to estimate at this time. The primary purpose for the mine for <br />the supply of road surfacing aggregate for proposed highway and oilfield projects. The project is <br />scheduled to commence construction in Summer, 2013. If that schedule is reality, mining <br />operation would commence in early Summer, 2013, and continue sporadically for 5 to 10 years. <br />However, if the road project is delayed or a different aggregate supplier is chosen, the mining <br />operation will not commence until an alternate construction project is identified and the proper <br />notifications will be issued. <br />CA (b) <br />The mined area will be replaced with topsoil removed from the mined area. Any available top <br />j ` r <br />soil removed before mining will be stockpiled direct adjacent to the mined area to be replaced <br />�b <br />as topsoil in the reclamation process. The post mining use has been determined by the <br />landowner to be rangeland /grazing land, the current use id dryland crop. The topsoil spoil piles <br />will be protected with silt fence at the toe of pile and any topsoil piles expected to sit more than <br />six (6) months will be broadcast seeded with annual forage approved by the landowner. The <br />reseeding will be completed between May 1, 2013, and October 1, 2013. The seed will be <br />drilled with a grass drill at 0.5 inch depth. The grass varieties are native and currently readily <br />available from area seed companies. If the Owner's choice of reclamation is for range, the land <br />shall be restored to slopes commensurate with the proposed land use and shall not be too steep <br />to be traversed by livestock. <br />(c) <br />The mined material is predicted to range from sand similar to beach sand to nominal gravel up <br />to 2 inch in size. Our interviews with the landowner have us believe the deposit to be as deep as <br />15 feet from grade and generally be increasingly coarse as toward the bottom deposit. The <br />overburden is quite sandy, from 6 to 12 inches deep, and sometimes hard to distinguish from <br />the cleaner sand it transitions to. Below the gravel deposit is a hard clay layer. <br />(d) <br />The thickness of the deposit to be mined is expected to be up to 20 feet. <br />(e) <br />The major mining components of the mining operation are access routes including Weld County <br />Roads 124 and 127, the actual pit to be developed, and portable processing facilities to include <br />an excavator with a 3 to 6 CUYD bucket, dozer, payloaders, crusher, screen plant, and conveyors <br />that transport aggregate. <br />(f) <br />The pit excavation, mine benches, impoundments, stockpiles, etc. will be less than 10 acres. <br />(g) <br />The existing roads that will be used during the mining process are already established, Roads <br />Weld County Roads 124 and 127. There will be no new construction of roads. <br />(h) <br />There will be a very limited amount of water used in this particular mining pit. Any water used <br />will be delivered from our own water trucks. It is not expected to encounter any water in the <br />mining process. <br />