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Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company <br />A Joint Venture • ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI (COLORADO) CORP.. <br />Operations Office <br />P.O. Box 191 100 North 3i' Street <br />Victor, Colorado 80860 <br />17191689-2977 - Fax 17191689-3254 <br />FXpress Mail <br />October 3, 2008 <br />Mr. 11crhan Kcftclew ? <br />Scnior Environmental Protection Specialist <br />Colorado Department of* Natural Resources <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />Oflicc of Mined Land Reclamation <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 21 i <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />RECEIVED <br />OCT 0 3 2008 <br />Division u: i,; ,icjmauon, <br />Mining and Safety <br />RICresson Proiect Permit M-1980-244: <11erulmcnt No. 9 (MLF) Application <br />Additional Response to Adequacy Review Reclamation, Iligh Wall Stability and <br />I I yd rogeoc h col i st ry <br />Dcar Mr. Kcl•felew: <br />Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company ("CC'&V-) hereby provides responses to the Amendment <br />No 9 (Mine I.ilc Extension ["MLE" ]) Application additional adequacy review comments entailed from <br />Allen Sorenson, Jared F.bert and David Bird via Berhan Kellclew. 'T'hese responses are designed to <br />Further clarify the inlbrnrltion contained in the Anlcnclnlcnt No. 9 application. 'these responses combined <br />with the information contained in the Amendment No. 9 application and the September 19, 2008 <br />Response to Adequacy letter comprehensively address and satisfy all requirements of the Colorado Mined <br />Land Reclamation Act and Mined Land Reclamation Board Rules and Regulations. <br />Following your review and approval of these additional responses, CC&V will place a copy of this letter <br />in each of the Responses to Adequacy Review binders that we placed with other Agencies and public <br />offices. CC&V requests that you distribute copies of this letter to the five binders that were provided to <br />DBMS. <br />DKM,S• Question to CC& V Adequacy Response (Allen Sorenson): <br />The Division of lleclunuttiun, Minim, and Su/qty (UIZM.S) engineering stuJ/ ha.+ reviewed the Stcr/uce <br />Mina Slope Design submitted (IS appendix 5 to volume IV o/'the AM-09 applic•alion, DKMS has also <br />reviewed other potions of AM-09 where mine slope desi,ims ore descrilled and the dravvings where the <br />mine slopes ore depicted Contrarv to the statements in the Septenibei- 18, 2008 Applicant 's rexponse to <br />adequacy review, is discussed in considerable detail in the application that in onler /6r the rock slopes <br />described in AM-09 to he stable, specialized blasting to create final pit walls is required. See particularly <br />Set -lion 4.1 o/'appendit• 5 to volume IV (?f the AM-09 applic•alion. I'Iii.e.specialized blasting is ile(ric•ient <br />for open pit production, so it is only employed at the final blast to c•reale the outside extent of any of'the <br />findt at some interim point in the mina plan and DRM.S' were to <br />pit walls. l/the Operator were to de <br />r•eclailm the mine pits fabler hand bO•/,ilure, substantial aniounts of*specialized blasting may he required