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Exhibit I <br />Soils Information <br />Section 6.4.9 <br />Gold Basin Mine, Inc. <br />Gold Basin Mine-Chaffee County <br />Granite, Colorado <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety <br />112 Permit Application <br />Soils <br />The semi-arid climate of Chaffee County, with its low precipitation, cools nights, and moderate <br />temperatures generally restrains vegetation growth and thereby slows the chemical and <br />biological processes needed for good soil development. The USDA Natural Resources Service <br />Soil Survey of Chaffee-Lake Area, County Area (1975) divides the soils of the county (not <br />including United States Forest Service (USFS) lands) into three landscape groups: 1) mountains; <br />2) high terraces, and 3) terraces and bottom lands. Mountain soils are on sloping and very steep <br />fans, terraces, ridges, and slide slopes of the mountains and include rising areas of rock outcrops. <br />They lie mainly at the higher elevations but take in most of the steep area east of the Arkansas <br />River in Chaffee County. <br />Soils of the High Terraces are on nearly level to steep terraces. Drainages commonly dissect the <br />soils and some areas are now rough broken land. These soils occur mainly west of the Arkansas <br />River, but small areas are on the narrow terraces or the east bank of the River. These high terrace <br />soils make up 52% of the County. <br />The Bross soil series predominant the mine permit area; consists of deep, well-drained soils <br />on mountains n e a r o r a b o v e timberline. These soils formed in mixed cobbly and <br />gravelly, moderately coarse textured outwash materials. Slopes range from 9 to 45 <br />percent. Elevation ranges from 10,000 to 14, 0 0 0 feet. The p I a n t c o v e r i s alpine <br />grasses, sedgesforbs, and clovers. The average annual precipitation is 20 to30 LO <br />inches. The average annual soil temperature is 30° F., and t h e a v e r a g e soil <br />temperature in summer is 42'. The frost-free season is less than 10 days. <br />December 28,2014 <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety <br />Gold Basin Mine, Inc. <br />Gold Basin Mine <br />Granite, Colorado <br />