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<br />r <br />i ~ /~(J~~1 <br />LY ~J <br />SMITH WILLIAMS CONSULTANTS, INC. <br />Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company <br />Cresson Project <br />Stability Evaluation <br />East Cresson and Squaw Gulch <br />Overburden Storage Areas <br /> <br />;~ <br />1.0 Introduction <br />Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company (CC&V) operates the Cresson Project, located in <br />Teller County, Colorado, near the city of Victor. The Cresson Project is a mining and ore <br />processing and beneficiation facility that is composed of surface mines as well as a valley leach <br />facility (VLF); an adsorption, desorption, and recovery (ADR) plant; associated infrastructure; <br />and overburden storage areas (OSAs), all of which were designed and constructed to meet or <br />exceed the requirements established by CRS §34-32-101 et seq. and regulations promulgated <br />there under by the Mined Land Reclamation Board (MLRB). <br />The existing OSAs at the site include the Squaw Gulch (SGOSA) and the Arequa Gulch <br />(AGOSA). As part of the Mine Life Extension (MLE), additional overburden storage will be <br />required to accommodate ore production. To contain the additional overburden, the SGOSA will <br />be extended and a new OSA will be constructed near the East Cresson surface mine, called the <br />East Cresson Overburden Storage Area (ECOSA). The SGOSA Extension (SGOSAE) and new <br />ECOSA are shown on Figure 1. <br />Smith Williams Consultants, Inc. (Smith Williams) was contracted to conduct stability analyses <br />to support the design of the SGOSAE and the ECOSA. This report was prepared presenting the <br />results of stability analyses, including a description of site conditions and assumptions used for <br />the analyses. <br />S:\PROJECTS\1125C CCBV CRESSON OSA\H2 - DESIGMOSA STABILITY FINAL REPORT V2.DOC <br />1 <br />