BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

RECEIVEDCLERK'S

OFFICE

IN THE MATTER OF :

JUL

19 2006

PETITION OF BIG RIVER ZINC

STATE OF ILLINOIS

AS 06 -004

Pollution Control Board

CORPORATION FOR AN ADJUSTED

STANDARD UNDER 35 ILL . ADM. CODE

(Adjusted Standard

- Land)

720.131(e)

NOTICE OF FILING

To :

See Attached Certificate of Service

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on July 19, 2006, we filed with the Clerk of the Illinois

Pollution Control Board the attached Certificate of Publication, copies of which are attached

hereto and hereby served upon you .

Dated: July 19, 2006

One o e Attorneys o P ioner

Big River Zinc Corporation

John W. Watson

Sasha M. Reyes

BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP

One Prudential Plaza, Suite 3500

130 East Randolph Drive

Chicago, IL 60601

+1312 861 8000

THIS DOCUMENT IS FILED ON RECYCLED PAPER

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BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD

IN THE MATTER OF :

PETITION OF BIG RIVER ZINC

CORPORATION FOR AN ADJUSTED

STANDARD UNDER 35 ILL . ADM . CODE

720.131(c)

PROOF OF NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

COMES NOW, ZincOx Resources plc ("ZincOx"), by its attorneys, Baker & McKenzie

LLP, and pursuant to 35 Ill . Adm. Code Section 104 .410, files the Certificate of Publication

attached as Exhibit A .

Dated: July 19, 2006

Respectfully submitted,

John W. Watson

Sasha M

. Reyes

BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP

One Prudential Plaza, Suite 3500

130 East Randolph Drive

Chicago, IL 60601

+1 312 861 8000

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CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION

STATE OF ILLINOIS

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COUNTY OF ST. CLAIR

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This is to certify that the undersigned

Jay Tebbe

is the president and

publisher of the NEWS-DEMOCRAT

a public and

English secular

newspaper of general circulation,

which has been regularly published

daily in the City of Belleville, County

of St. Clair and State of Illinois, for at

least one year prior to the first

publication of the notice hereinafter

mentioned, and that a notice of which

the annexed is a true printed copy, has

been published in said newspaper

once, the publication thereof having

been made in the issue of said

newspaper, published on

It ,2001

and that the face of the type in which

each publication of said notice was

made was the same as the body type

used in the classified advertising in

the issue of said newspaper in which

publication was made.

JAY TEBBE

President and Publisher

By

•Y " r-"4'x

His Authorized Agent

Printer's fee

$ !8'Y-:otCi .

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Dorothy Gunn

Clerk of the Board

Illinois Pollution Control Board

100 West Randolph Street

Suite 11-500

Chicago, IL 60601

And upon the following by U .S

. First Class Mail:

Mike Roubitchek

Division of Legal Counsel

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

1021 North Grand Avenue East

P.O. Box 19276

Springfield, IL 62794-9276

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

The undersigned certifies that copies of the

Certificate of Publication were served on

this 19th day of July, 2006

.

Upon the following by hand delivery :

S a M

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