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(d) Disturbed land will be kept to a minimum. Because of <br /> the extremely high cost of stripping overburden and because of the high <br /> cost of reclamation, it is in our best interest as well as in the best <br /> interest of the county to restrict the amount of land disturbed to the <br /> minimum necessary for operations. <br /> (e) The Company has already posted a $25,000 reclamation <br /> bond, as is required by the North Carolina Mining Ace. <br /> The current plans are for the Mining Act to increase <br /> the amount of the bond to $2,000 per acre of land covered by the permit. <br />