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LKA International Inc. <br />Golden Wonder / Level 6/ Hydrologic Setting Methods <br />quality; it is imperative to gather both `solution' (water) and `solid' samples in order to <br />characterize the flow pathway. <br />The following summarizes the samples collected as part of each flow pathway and <br />source. Each pathway component was sampled during 2008 and/or has been sampled as <br />part of routine sampling efforts that are part of permit conditions for the Golden Wonder. <br />Each pathway component/sampling strategy is summarized in Table 1 by the footnotes <br />within the following pathways: <br />1. Deadman gulch water (a) 4 direct contact and infiltration into the waste rock(b) 4 <br />channeled to a point of release that is the waste rock toe seep(`) <br />2. Historic mine collapse seep water (d) -> direct contact and infiltration into the waste rock() <br />? channeled to a point of release that is the waste rock toe seep(`) <br />3. Golden wonder underground managed water cn--> channeled to a point of release that is <br />the waste rock toe seep(`) <br />4. Cumulative groundwater from alluvium/rhyolite formations(g) 4 infiltration into waste <br />rock (b and e)4 channeled to a point of release that is the waste rock toe seep(`) <br />Appendix A provides the Table summaries of data for each of the above flow pathway <br />components (refer to Appendix A Table references provided in Table 1). The historic <br />data sets provided cursory information regarding temporal trends. The most important <br />data sets relied upon for this evaluation were drawn from the installed piezometer wells <br />that were installed to specifically fill pathway data gaps(locations depicted in Figure 3 <br />with photos of locations provided in Appendix B). For clarification, a summary of the <br />piezometer well information is provided as follows; <br />Piezometer Well B - GWPZ-B : was installed immediately down-gradient of the <br />Deadman Gulch headwaters seep in order to characterize the potential Deadman Gulch <br />subsurface flows that may contact the waste rock pile. In the absence of locating gulch- <br />related subsurface flows, this well would provide strategic drill profile column <br />information that would serve as a characteristic cross section of the waste rock pile. The <br />piezometer well was drilled with the intent to develop the slotted portion of the well <br />within the identified `wet zone'. Thus, the core was reviewed real-time at the time of <br />drilling to define the depth to the water saturated formation. The core was <br />simultaneously characterized by a geologist from Richmont Mines Inc., to identify the <br />geologic formations encountered; and the entire core was sampled into 10'ft composite <br />samples. The well was developed in a manner where the well would capture and contain <br />`formation-specific' water and would not act as an integrative well where water from any <br />formation could fill the space. The geologic log for Well B is provided in Appendix B.