| Soils are composed of Gilpin silt loam, a moderately deep, well drained soil with a lower subsoil of silty clay loam of the subgroup Typic Hapludult. |
| Liddell silt loam is classified as a coarse-silty, siliceous, subactive, acid, thermic typic endoaquept. |
| Pre-mining soils are largely order Alfisols and Subgroup Typic Fragiudalfs including infertile fragipan and claypan soils. |
| Polecats were found in two major phenotypes a typic one and a dark fur one with no black mask. |
| It is classified as Haplic Acrisol in the WRB system or fine, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic, Typic Paleudult in the Soil Taxonomy. |
| These are classified as a Typic Orthic Allophanic Soil and a Typic Orthic Gley Soil, respectively, and as a Hapludand and Haplaquept under the USDA classification. |
