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NEWMONT <br />GOLDCORP.. <br />3.7 Overburden Management <br />Rock without recoverable gold, but which must be removed to access the gold -bearing ore, is <br />called overburden. Overburden will be loaded from the active mine areas for transport and <br />managed at the designated OSAs. Overburden will be managed in designated mine areas once <br />mining operations have ceased and the area is opened for overburden. The overburden <br />management practices and management facilities are described below. <br />3.7.1 Squaw Gulch Overburden Storage Area (SGOSA) <br />A portion of the existing SGOSA will be removed to make room for construction of VLF2 Phase <br />3. Overburden removed from SGOSA or other locations will be placed in the Schist Island mine <br />area to reach the design grades required for VLF2 Phase 3 construction. Details of the overburden <br />removal from SGOSA are described in the Valley Leach Facility 2 Phase 3 Detailed Design Report <br />provided in Appendix 1 to this Amendment 13. <br />3.7.2 East Cresson Overburden Storage Area (ECOSA) <br />No modifications to ECOSA are planned under this amendment. ECOSA will continue to receive <br />overburden material from the active mine areas. ECOSA will be built -out and graded according <br />to sequencing described in previous amendments. <br />3.7.3 Deposition of Overburden into Mine Areas <br />General <br />As previously stated, this amendment modifies the Schist Island mine area backfill plan to <br />accommodate backfill removed from the SGOSA or other areas for the construction of VLF2 <br />Phase 3. <br />Except for the proposed changes to the Schist Island mine, as provided in this amendment, <br />deposition of overburden into mine areas (i.e., mine area backfilling) will not change from that <br />discussed in previous plans. Backfill configurations and sequencing for VLF2 Phase 3 during mine <br />operations are presented in the Valley Leach Facility 2 Phase 3 Detailed Design Report, included <br />in Appendix 1. Backfill configurations and sequencing for other mine areas are provided in <br />previous amendments and plans. Note that the actual amount of backfill and the timing of <br />backfilling activities for a mine area and a particular year may change based on project economics <br />and may vary from what is shown on these permit drawings. Backfill configurations for reclamation <br />are shown on drawings presented in Exhibit F. <br />Once condemnation sampling is performed and a surface mine area is deemed complete, these <br />mine areas will become available for backfill of overburden. Overburden backfilling will occur in <br />the Main Cresson, East Cresson and North Cresson (including the Schist Island) mine areas. The <br />Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company <br />Cresson Project Amendment 13 <br />15 <br />Exhibit D <br />