mining services agreement for lucky shot mine development this agreement is made this 26th day of august, 2017 by and between owner, alaska gold torrent, llc, p. o. box 409 willow, ak 99688 parent of owner : gold torrent, inc. 960 s. broadway suite 530 boise, id 83706 and miner, mining & environmental services llc dba mes mining dba mountain miners po box 1511 idaho springs, co 80452 msha contractor id # a116 us tax id # 84 - 1401900 recitals a. owner has determined in its sole judgment that miner has the necessary expertise and equipment to perform the necessary mining services. b. miner will be performing work that would otherwise necessarily be performed by employees hired by owner to effect the same mine maintenance, exploration, development and / or production of metalliferous minerals from the ore body or deposit. no construction work is included in the scope of this project. c. owner agrees that the work performed by the miner constitutes a common improvement beneficial to all properties it holds which are either contiguous to the properties on which the miner performs work ; or which are connected to the worked areas by underground workings ; or which are considered or represented to be a single exploration, mining or mine development operation. d. the owner has engaged the miner to perform certain planning and other pre - construction professional services, via a separate professional services agreement ( the “ psa ” ) dated july 14, 2017. under that agreement, miner is providing assistance with msha submittals, underground as - built mapping of accessible portions of the enserch adit, development plans, project estimates and logistics, etc. this includes preparation of development alternatives, draft development plans and related cost estimates and final plans and cost estimate as per exhibits referenced in section 3 below. agreement now therefore, based on the premises stated above and the terms and conditions herein, owner and miner hereby agree as follows : all required notices to the parties as identified in the following agreement shall be given at the above addresses. the recitals stated above are hereby incorporated by reference. 1. the work. the work is identified in exhibit a. miner shall use its best efforts to expeditiously perform the work described in exhibit a in a commercially reasonable manner. miner shall provide all administration, management, labor, equipment, materials and services necessary to complete the work described in exhibit a, except as may be otherwise provided in the contract documents