2004-10-18_REVISION - M1980244 (25)

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October 2004 -1- 043-2170 • 1.0 INTRODUCTION The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company (CC&V) currently operates the Cresson Project, located in Teller County, Colorado, near the city of Victor on Colorado State Highway 67. CC&V is a joint venture formed by Golden Cycle Gold Corporation and Anglogold Ashanti (Colorado) Corp. (Anglogold), with Anglogold the managing partner. The Cresson Project is a mining and ore processing facility which is comprised of surface mines, crushers, a lined Valley Leach FaciliTy (VLF), gold recovery plant, and associated infrastructure, all of which were designed and constructed to meet or exceed the requirements established by C.R.S. §34-32-101 et seq. and regulations promulgated thereunder by the Mined Land Reclamation Board (NLRB). The work associated with the Cresson Project is being performed under specific criteria established in Amendment No. 8 of Permit Number M-1980-244 (Permit), as approved by the NLRB. This Report documents the Construction Quality Assurance (CQA) and Construction Quality Control (CQC) services provided by Golder Associates Inc. (Golder) from September 2001 through October 2004 for the Phase Nc Ore Storage Area (OSA). The Phase Nc OSA includes geomembrane placement and related earthworks above Elevation 9730 on the Phase N ore slope. The general site plan is presented in Figure 1, and the certification boundary is presented in Figure 2. • 1.1 Project Description The initial Cresson Project was designed in 1993 and constructed in phases since 1994 under Amendment Nos. 6, 7, and 8 to Mining Permit M-1980-244. This certification report addresses the addition of approximately 2,604,000 squaze feet plan area (2,663,000 squaze feet, surface azea corrected for slope) of lined valley leach area north of Phase Nb. This area is referred to as the Phase Nc OSA and was designed to meet the criteria presented in Amendment No. 8. Ames Construction Inc. (Ames) of Aurora, Colorado was the earthworks contractor for the Phase IVc OSA. Ames performed construction activities for the Project from September 2001 through October 2004, except for two construction shutdown periods (month of March 2003 and November 2003 through March 2004). Poly-Flex Inc. (Poly-Flex) of Grand Prairie, Texas manufactured and installed the geomembrane used to construct the OSA. Poly-Flex was onsite to install geomembrane in Phase Nc during the period of April through September 2004. Messrs. Ron Roberts and Sam Gleason represented CC&V as the Construction Managers for the 2004 construction season. All • uwum~owwmcm.Qeeervo~awwaarm.oaao.~xiezcawervcaa Golder Associates