2008-10-06_REVISION - M1980244

• Permit No: M1980244
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 10/6/2008
• Doc Name: Additional Response to Adequacy Review- Reclamation, High Wall Stability and Hydrogeochemistry
• From: CC&V
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: AM9
• Email Name: BMK
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company
A Joint Venture • ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI (COLORADO) CORP.,
Operations Office
P.O. Box 191 • 100 North 3`" Street
Victor, Colorado 80860
[phone] - Fax [phone]
Express Mail
RECEIVED
October 3, 2008
Mr. Berhan Keffelew OCT 0 6 2008
Senior Environmental Protection Specialist Division or mociarnation,
Colorado Department of Natural Resources Mining and SSf*
Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety
Office of Mined Land Reclamation
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
RE: Cresson Project Permit M-1980-244: Amendment No. 9 (MLE) Application
Additional Response to Adequacy Review -Reclamation, High Wall Stability and
Hydrogeochemistry
Dear Mr. Keffelew:
Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company ("CC&V") hereby provides responses to the Amendment
No 9 (Mine Life Extension ["MLE"]) Application additional adequacy review comments emailed from
Allen Sorenson, Jared Ebert and David Bird via Berhan Keffelew. These responses are designed to
further clarify the information contained in the Amendment No. 9 application. These responses combined
with the information contained in the Amendment No. 9 application and the September 19, 2008
Response to Adequacy letter comprehensively address and satisfy all requirements of the Colorado Mined
Land Reclamation Act and Mined Land Reclamation Board Rules and Regulations.
Following your review and approval of these additional responses, CC&V will place a copy of this letter
in each of the Responses to Adequacy Review binders that we placed with other Agencies and public
offices. CC&V requests that you distribute copies of this letter to the five binders that were provided to
DRMS.
DRMS Question to CC&V Adequacy Response (Allen Sorenson):
The Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (DRMS) engineering staff has reviewed the Surface
Mine Slope Design submitted as appendix 5 to volume IV of the AM-09 application. DRMS has also
reviewed otherpotions ofAM-09 where mine slope designs are described and the drawings where the
mine slopes are depicted. Contrary to the statements in the September 18, 2008 Applicant's response to
adequacy review, is discussed in considerable detail in the application that in order for the rock slopes
described in AM-09 to be stable, specialized blasting to create final pit walls is required. See particularly
section 4.1 of appendix 5 to volume IV of the AM-09 application. This specialized blasting is inefficient
for open pit production, so it is only employed at the final blast to create the outside extent of any of the
pit walls. If the Operator were to default at some interim point in the mine plan and DRMS were to
reclaim the mine pits under bond forfeiture, substantial amounts of specialized blasting may be required