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• the addition of five haul trucks. Replacement equipment will be purchased as needed to <br />maintain operations. <br />The ore will be crushed and processed using the existing crushing and conveying <br />facilities. (It should be noted that the Load Out Bin and associated conveyors will be <br />moved to accommodate higher ore stacking on the VLF as part of approvals obtained <br />under Amendment No. 8.) Ore will be processed on the existing VLF and the proposed <br />extension to the existing VLF (Phase 5) and recovered in the existing process facility. <br />Approximately 250 million tons of overburden (non-economic rock) are proposed to be <br />removed during mining of the Cresson MLE areas. This rock will be backfilled into other <br />portions of the mine, along with rock from other mining areas already approved under <br />Amendment No. 8, to establish apost-mining topography as shown in the amended <br />reclamation plan drawing (Drawing F-1). Up to approximately 66 million tons of <br />overburden is proposed to be placed in ECOSA and up to approximately 50 million tons <br />of overburden is proposed to be placed in the SGOSA Extension. <br />Approximately 110 million tons of ore from the MLE areas is proposed to be placed <br />• within the existing VLF and proposed extension to the VLF. Phase 5 of the VLF includes <br />both the changes in height to the existing VLF Phases and new placement in the Phase 5 <br />area. This compares to the 300 million tons of ore to be developed from currently <br />approved Amendment No. 8 mine areas for placement on the existing Phases I through <br />IV of the VLF. Total ore to be processed is Phases I through 5 of the VLF is <br />approximately 410 million tons. <br />During active operations the MLE will affect approximately 1,498 total acres in surface <br />mine areas and approximately 616 total acres in overburden storage areas. The Phase 5 <br />VLF extension will add approximately 138 acres to the VLF footprint for a total of <br />approximately 514 acres. Drawing C-4a in Exhibit C shows the changes in disturbed area <br />categories from the existing approved disturbance to this MLE. Upon reclamation the <br />affected acreages for overburden storage and the VLF will increase slightly as slopes are <br />regraded to allow growth medium replacement and revegetation. The total affected area <br />for the MLE will remain the same as for Amendment No. 8. The ancillary acreage for the <br />MLE has been reduced while disturbance in other categories such as mine areas and <br />overburden storage areas has been increased to allow the affected acres to remain the <br />same. The total affected areas for both Amendment No. 8 and the MLE are <br />• Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company <br />Cresson Project Mine Life Extension <br />1-5 <br />