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RESPONSES TO FORM QUESTIONS <br />#10 GENERAL DESCRIPTION <br />The Golden Wonder Mine (the mine) is located about 2.5 miles southeast of Lake City, Hinsdale <br />County, Colorado in the NE % of the NE % Section 10, and NW % of the NW '/ of Section 11, <br />Township 43 North, Range 4 West (Figures A.1 and A.2). The mine is comprised of two areas <br />referred to as `Level 3' and `Level 6' based upon historic (Level 3) and current (Level 6) <br />workings which surface and provide access to underground workings via portal structures and <br />working pad surfaces. These two levels are captured within patented and unpatented claim <br />boundaries (Figure A.3 and Table A.1). <br />The mine can be reached by traveling south from Lake City on Colorado Highway 149 to <br />Vicker's Ranch where a person turns east on a private road through the ranch and up the hill past <br />the bridge across the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River. Proceed straight ahead up the road <br />between various houses to a gate (that is often locked) and up the canyon of a drainage just north <br />of Park Creek. The road crosses into the Park Creek drainage and forks north of a large pond. <br />Taking the right fork across the Park Creek valley through a series of switchbacks with bring you <br />to another fork where the right road will proceed to both levels of the Golden Wonder. At the <br />saddle, the road branches again with the right fork proceeding to Level 6 and the left to Level 3. <br />#14 LIST ANY DESIGNATED CHEMICALS, ACIDIC OR TOXIC-FORMING <br />MATERIALS, EXPOSED OR DISTURBED AS A RESULT OF THE MINING <br />OPERATION, AND WHETHER THE OPERATION WILL RESULT IN OR <br />PRESENTLY HAS ACID MINE DRAINAGE: <br />The waste rock produced by the Golden Wonder mine has been identified as being acid forming. <br />Considerable attention has been drawn towards the `waste rock toe seeps' which occur at the foot <br />of the existing Golden Wonder Level 6 pad/waste rock pile. The water quality characteristics of <br />these seeps include acidic pH levels and mineralized metals concentrations. In addition, samples <br />of the waste rock have demonstrated minimal buffering capacity (Table A.2) with paste pH <br />levels that are acidic. The forms of sulfur indicate that the waste rock contains pyritic sulfur <br />which is a direct indicator of the material as being acid formation. <br />A significant amount of effort has been accomplished to control acid formation from the waste <br />rock. These efforts include: <br />1. Stormwater controls that prohibit water run-on and run-off to/from the waste rock pile. <br />2. Channelization/containment of Deadman Gulch flows away from the waste rock pile. <br />3. Capping of the Level 6 pad to prohibit direct contact of any precipitation water to the <br />waste rock pile. <br />3