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1.0 INTRODUCTION <br />1.1 Project Description <br />ame0 <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 Ashanti (Colorado) Corp. <br />(Anglogold Ashanti). The Cresson Project is a mining and ore processing facility which is <br />comprised of surface mines, crushers, a lined Valley Leach Facility (VLF), gold recovery <br />plant, and associated infrastructure, all of which were designed and constructed to meet or <br />exceed the requirements established by C.R.S. §34 -32 -101 et seq. and regulations <br />promulgated there under by the Mined Land Reclamation Board (MLRB). The work <br />associated with the Cresson Project is being performed under specific criteria established in <br />Amendment No. 9 of Permit Number M- 1980 -244 (Permit), as approved by the MLRB. This <br />report documents the Construction Quality Assurance (CQA) and Construction Quality <br />Control (CQC) services provided by AMEC Earth and Environmental (AMEC) from January <br />2009 through November 2011 for the 2011 Phase 5 Valley Leach Facility Ore Storage Area <br />(OSA) 3 Portion, which is defined in Section 1.6. The general site plan is presented on <br />Figure 1, and the certification boundaries are presented on Figure 2. <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 2,954,372 square feet plan area of a portion of the <br />earthen and synthetically -lined Phase 5 Ore Storage Area (OSA). This area is referred to as <br />the 2011 Phase 5 VLF OSA 3 Portion, and was designed to meet the criteria presented <br />and approved in Amendment No. 9. The Phase 5 total earthen and synthetically -lined area <br />is 6,163,077 square feet. <br />Ames Construction Inc. (Ames) of Aurora, Colorado, was the earthworks contractor for the <br />2011 Phase 5 VLF OSA 3 Portion. Ames performed construction activities for the Project <br />from January 2009 through November 2011. Poly -Flex of Grand Prairie, Texas, <br />manufactured the geomembrane used to construct the 2011 Phase 5 VLF OSA 3 Portion. <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 <br />