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Exhibit G <br />Water Information <br />Section 6.4.7 <br />Gold Basin Mine - Chaffee County <br />Granite, Colorado <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety <br />112 Permit Application <br />Geologyz <br />The mine site is located between the Mosquito Range and the Sawatch Range and <br />southeast of Mount Elbert. The site bedrock consists of Precambrian sehists and gneiss <br />metaphoric formations and granitic intrusions. The boundary between the metamorphics <br />of the Sawatch and the Mosquito Ranges is somewhere beneath the Arkansas Valley fill. <br />(Figure G -1) Near Granite, masses of debris washed from the melting glaciers in the <br />Sawatch Range forced the Arkansas River to east side of the valley where the river <br />carved a valley through highly fractured granite. Stream valleys contain cobbles, gravels <br />and sands. (Halka Chronic, 1980)°. The thin stream valley deposits of the Upper Cache <br />Creek consist of coarse sands and gravels. The stream is considered perennial with flaw <br />volumes being significantly affected by frequent thunderstorm events and snow melt <br />runoff events. <br />The upper Arkansas River valley, including the area around Granite, is hemmed in <br />between high, sheer rock outcroppings of buff/pink-colored Precambrian. granite. <br />Granite lies at the center of the Colorado Mineral Belt (CMB), a 50 mile -wide strip that <br />runs north and south for 300 miles. Mineralization of the CMB came primarily by way <br />of intrusions of Tertiary Period magmas. The primary ores of the CMB were generally <br />deposited as mixed metal sulfide mineral veins containing pyrite, galena, sphalerite, <br />chalcopyrite, and gold, silver, and copper. During the last glacial period native gold was <br />freed from the host rock and deposited along the ancient roaring Arkansas River bed - <br />much larger than it is today due to the melting glacial runoff. <br />C)'*N <br />Wallace, Alan, 1993 Geologic Setting of the leadvilie mining district, take County, Colorado, USGS Open File <br />Report 93 -343 A <br />Chronic, Halka, 1980 Roadside Geology of Colorado, Mountain Press Publishing, Missoula, Montana a <br />December 28, 2014 <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety <br />Gold Basin Miner, Inc. <br />Gold Basin Mine <br />Granite, Colorado <br />