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• • III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 999 C~ Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company A Joint Venture- Pikes Peak Mining Company, Manager (1 Q 7 Operations Office Englewood OMlce L\`XT V PO. Box 191, 2755 State Highway 67 5251 DTC Parkway, Suite 700, Englewood Victor, Colorado 80860 Colorado 80111 (719) 689-2977 • FAX (719) 689-3254 (303) 889-0700 • FAX (303) 889-0707 December l6, 1994 SENT BY FACSIMILE -HARD COPY FOLLOWS BY MAIL Mr. Berhan Keffelew Environmental Protection Specialist Colorado Department of Natural Resources Division of Mines and Geology Office of Mined Land Reclamation 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 RECEivEC DEC 2 0 1994 Division of minerals ti hcui0p Reference: Cresson Project: Permit M-80-244: Inspection of VLDPE Liner Torn By Grading- ui ment At South-Southwest Corner of Exterior Edge of Valley Leach Pad. Dear Mr. Keffelew: The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company ("CC&V")inspected the subject area of the VLDPE liner on December 15, 1994 at about 1430 hours and found that the portion of the liner that was ripped is located outside the anchor trench. Thus no repairs were necessary. The liner you and I viewed together was excavated by hand at about 1400 hours and it was determined, by finding the buried smooth edge, that the portion of liner was an extension of the smooth VLDPE that lies outside the anchor trench in an general area which, because of the comer turn at this location, had triangles of excess liner that extended beyond the requisite seven feet buried in the anchor trench. Thus the liner we could see extends past the outside edge of the anchor trench. It also overlies some Ironclad soil liner material through which the anchor trench had been cut. We determined the relationship of the liner that you and I observed to the anchor trench in that area by exposing the smooth-cut end of the ripped section and finding it outside (south of) the exposed portion. We then determined that the inside portion curved down into the anchor trench (to the north) and that the inside portion was thus in line with the survey markers demarcating the outside of the anchor trench. Because this exposed and ripped material is in addition to the minimum length required to be anchored and is outside the anchor trench, repair was not necessary. A sketch showing the relationship of the exposed area to the anchor trench and the pad is provided as an Attachment. Immediately after our observations, grading of the road to slope away from the pad in this general area and upgradient from this area (area of the liner rip) was initiated. At about 1830,