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4. Description of Mining: <br />A. Top Soil: <br />Aggregate Extraction begins with the removal and stockpiling of the topsoil using <br />bulldozers and scrapers or excavators and trucks. Earth berms will be constructed to <br />store the topsoil, provide screening of the operation, and reduce the equipment noise <br />heard outside the operation area. These temporary berms will be constructed of topsoil <br />from future areas to be mined and will be seeded. <br />B. Phase Plan: <br />Aggregate excavation will progress from the Northeast side of the property in a <br />Southerly direction. Once to the Southeastern corner we will turn to the West once to the <br />Southwest corner we will turn to the North and continue along the Northwest side. As <br />mining progresses the processing area may periodically change to allow for the equipment <br />to be as close to the excavation as possible. <br />C. Aggregate: <br />The current plan for processing aggregate utilizes a bulldozer pushing the <br />uncovered aggregate material to a trap feeder, which - via a series of conveyors - feeds <br />the material to a screening and crushing plant. The material is crushed and sized into <br />various products, which are then stockpiled on site. The equipment typically used for <br />this type of material processing includes a portable generator, multiple crushing and <br />screening plants, and conveyors. The crushing and screening plants utilized by Midwest <br />Asphalt Corporation are portable in nature. They can be moved within the extraction <br />area as well as in & out of the operation as needed to replenish the product stockpiles. <br />Once the products are stockpiled, we will use front-end loaders to place the <br />material into aver -the -road trucks, which haul the materials to either Midwest Asphalt <br />Corporation's production plants, job sites, and use for our external customers. We will also <br />as needed use a water truck and road grader on our haul road to 221st Ave. <br />