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amel& <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION <br />The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company (CC&V) currently operates the Cresson <br />Project, located in Teller County, Colorado, near the city of Victor on Colorado State <br />Highway 67. CC&V is owned and managed by Anglogold (Colorado) Corp. (Anglogold). <br />The Cresson Project is a mining and ore processing facility which is comprised of surface <br />mines, crushers, a lined Valley Leach Facility (VLF), gold recovery plant, and associated <br />infrastructure, all of which were designed and constructed to meet or exceed the <br />requirements established by C.R.S. §34-32-101 et seq. and regulations promulgated there <br />under by the Mined Land Reclamation Board (MLRB). The work associated with the <br />Cresson Project is being performed under specific criteria established in Amendment No. 9 <br />of Permit Number M-1980-244 (Permit), as approved by the MLRB. This report documents <br />the Construction Quality Assurance (CQA) and Construction Quality Control (CQC) services <br />provided by AMEC Earth and Environmental (AMEC) from January 2009 through November <br />2010 for the 2010 Phase 5 Valley Leach Facility (VLF), which is defined in Section 1.6. The <br />general site plan is presented on Figure 1, and the certification boundaries are presented on <br />Figure 2. <br />1.1 Project Description <br />The initial Cresson Project was designed in 1993 and constructed in phases since 1994 <br />under Amendment Nos. 6, 7, 8, and 9 to Mining Permit M-1980-244. This certification report <br />addresses the addition of approximately 1,700,188 square feet plan area (1,818,452 square <br />feet, neat line) of the earthen and synthetically-lined PSSA that is located east of <br />Phase IVa/Phase IVb and a portion of the Phase 5 Ore Storage Area (OSA). This area is <br />referred to as the 2010 Phase 5 VLF and was designed to meet the criteria presented and <br />approved in Amendment No. 9. <br />Ames Construction Inc. (Ames) of Aurora, Colorado was the earthworks contractor for the <br />Phase 5 PSSA. Ames performed construction activities for the Project from January 2009 <br />through November 2010. Poly-Flex of Grand Prairie, Texas manufactured the <br />le geomembrane used to construct the 2010 Phase 5 VLF. Lone Star Lining Company (Lone <br />AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc. <br />2000 S. Colorado Blvd 2-1000 <br />Denver, CO 80222 <br />Tel 303-935-6505 <br />Fax 303-935-6575 www.amec.com 1