Summit Geology & Consulting, LLC

STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS

Owner and Principal Scientist Randall K. Streufert brings 25 years of comprehensive experience in geology, geological engineering, environmental sciences, and project management. We are directly experienced in the following areas:

Environmental Sciences

Water quality – Surface water

Project Delineation – Site Research

Baseline/modeling studies

Regulatory Compliance

Sampling – dissolved or suspended pollutants

Monitoring – scheduled or continuous (data loggers/autosamplers)

Database management /Statistical analysis

Hydrology

Loading calculations/TMDL assessments

Hydrogeochemical interaction

Environmental research

Groundwater

Location/drilling/completion of monitor wells

Well monitoring/sampling

Hydrogeology

Groundwater mapping

Coal-bed methane outcrop seepage mapping

Naturally occurring and anthropomorphic acid/metal drainage

Geological Engineering

Reclamation

Abandoned mine closure/safeguarding – hard rock and coal, surface and underground

Open-pit mine backfilling and recontouring - coal

Vertical mine shaft stabilization/pressure grouting – abandoned underground coal

Revegetation – hard rock and coal

Road and trail design/construction

Geologic Hazards

Subsidence research/mapping – coal

Coal mine/outcrop fire research, monitoring

Rock fall research/mitigation

Landslide monitoring/mapping

Coal-bed methane outcrop seepage mapping

Slope stability

Municipal water-shed protection

Surveying

Boundary – property/mining claims

Mine surveying – underground and surface

Landslide/dam monitoring

Photogrammetric surveys – alpine and urban

Construction surveying

Differential GPS

Recountouring

Geology

Mining Geology

Property location/project initiation – precious/base metals, industrial minerals

Ore reserve calculation – narrow vein, manto, and disseminated deposits

Drill tooling (core, reverse-circ, auger), targeting, and logging – surface and underground

Mine planning/mapping – surface and underground

Construction/Contracting

Mine hydrology/environmental studies

Historic mine map research/preservation

Floatation mill operation

Geophysical surveys – induced polarization/resistivity-conductivity/

Geology/GIS compilation

Mineral Resources

Resource management – metals, industrial minerals, coal

Property evaluation/utilization – metal, industrial minerals, coal

Public education – mineral resources, coal

Research/publishing – metals, industrial minerals, coal

Project management – mineral studies

Research Geology

Deep continental crust core-drilling – logging/sampling/scientific support

Evaporite deformation/collapse features

Landscape evolution/geomorphology

Water-rock interaction/hydrothermal alteration

Metallic element/commodity availability and usage

Historic production figure research/extrapolation - metals, industrial minerals, coal

Mapping/Cartography

Quadrangle mapping – 1:24,000 scale

Regional mapping - 1:50,000 to 1:250,000 scale

Landsat satellite imaging

Remote sensing/photogeology

Geomorphology/Quaternary geology

Historic mine map preservation/drafting

Environmental hazard mapping

Map collection/database research

Drafting

Computer aided drafting

Photogrammetric plotter operation-optical/mechanical, digital

Map editing

Project Management

Mineral resource studies

Regional geologic mapping

Geologic hazards assessments

Mine-site reclamation (coal & hardrock)

Watershed assessments / Environmental studies

General construction / River restorations

Road & trail design / construction