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October 2004 <br />043 -2170 <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION <br />The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company (CC &V) currently operates the Cresson Project, <br />located in Teller County, Colorado, near the city of Victor on Colorado State Highway 67. CC&V is <br />a joint venture formed by Golden Cycle Gold Corporation and Anglogold Ashanti (Colorado) Corp. <br />( Anglogold), with Anglogol'd the managing partner. The Cresson Project is a mining and ore <br />processing facility which is comprised of surface mines, crushers, a lined Valley Leach Facility <br />(VLF), gold recovery plant, and associated infrastructure, all of which were designed and constructed <br />to meet or exceed the requirements established by C.R.S. §34 -32 -101 et seq. and regulations <br />promulgated thereunder by the Mined Land Reclamation Board (MLRB). The work associated with <br />the Cresson Project is being performed under specific criteria established in Amendment No. 8 of <br />Permit Number M -1980 -244 (Permit), as approved by the MLRB. This Report documents the <br />Construction Quality Assurance (CQA) and Construction Quality Control (CQC) services provided <br />by Golder Associates Inc. (Golder) from September 2001 through October 2004 for the Phase We <br />Ore Storage Area (OSA). The Phase 1Vc OSA includes geomembrane placement and related <br />earthworks above Elevation 9730 on the Phase IV ore slope. The general site plan is presented in <br />Figure 1, and the certification boundary is presented in Figure 2. <br />1.1 Project Description <br />The initial Cresson Project was designed in 1993 and constructed in phases since 1994 under <br />Amendment Nos. 6, 7, and 8 to Mining Permit M -1980 -244. This certification report addresses the <br />addition of approximately 2,604,000 square feet plan area (2,663 square feet, surface area <br />corrected for slope) of lined valley leach area north of Phase 1Vb. This area is referred to as the <br />Phase We OSA and was designed to meet the criteria presented in Amendment No. 8. <br />Ames Construction Inc. (Ames) of Aurora, Colorado was the earthworks contractor for the Phase We <br />OSA. Ames performed construction activities for the Project from September 2001 through October <br />2004, except for two construction shutdown periods (month of March 2003 and November 2003 <br />through March 2004). Poly -Flex Inc. (Poly -Flex) of Grand Prairie, Texas manufactured and installed <br />the geomembrane used to construct the OSA. Poly -Flex was onsite to install geomembrane in <br />Phase We during the period of April through September 2004. Messrs. Ron Roberts and Sam <br />Gleason represented CC &V as the Construction Managers for the 2004 construction season. All <br />I:,1 %2170 "%C-t-Q„MN�,NAU3217C.4.:24as.ctnftN�fte Golder Associates <br />