Name of the Mine
Cripple Creek & Victor (CC&V) mine.

Location
About 160 km south-west of Denver, Colorado, in the US.

Mine Owner/s
Denver-based gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc producer SSR Mining.

Brief Description
CC&V is widely regarded as an alkalic, low-sulphidation epithermal gold system. Such deposits are typically associated with alkaline intrusive host rocks and nearby wall rocks, with mineralisation occurring as disseminated, breccia-hosted and vein-hosted gold.

Mining currently takes place across three main openpit areas – Globe Hill, Schist Island and South Cresson – using conventional large-scale equipment, including 240 short ton haul trucks.

Brief History
Gold discoveries in the early 1890s spurred rapid development in the CC&V district. Underground mining dominated production through the first half of the twentieth century, yielding more than 23-million ounces of gold before most operations wound down in 1962. Cumulative output from the district has reached about 27-million ounces. Modern openpit mining started in 1994 under the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company, with a series of ownership transitions culminating in SSR Mining acquiring the asset in 2025.

Primary Metals/Minerals
Gold.

Secondary Metals/Minerals
None stated

Geology/Mineralisation
CC&V is situated along the flanks of the Cripple Creek volcanic complex at an elevation of more than 9 500 ft above sea level.
The deposit is an epithermal, alkaline intrusion-related gold system hosted in Oligocene-age diatreme comprising volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks, primarily quartz latite. Gold mineralisation occurs as native gold and gold/silver tellurides within breccias, stockworks and hydrothermal veins, typically associated with pyrite, quartz and fluorite.

Reserves
All current reserves are oxide material placed on valley leach pads as run-of-mine ore or following two-stage crushing.

As at July 1, 2025, proven and probable reserves totalled 235.13-million tonnes grading 0.37 g/t gold.

Resources
Measured and indicated resources as at July 1, 2025, were 344.84-million tonnes grading 0.44 g/t gold. Inferred resources were 149.60-million tonnes grading 0.41 g/t gold.

Type of Mine
Openpit. Underground mining has ceased.

Mining Method
Mining uses standard openpit practices – drilling, blasting, loading, hauling, processing and refining.

Major Infrastructure/Equipment
The site hosts primary and secondary crushing and conveying systems supplying ore for heap leaching and milling, adsorption-desorption recovery circuits, and a milling/flotation plant that historically produced a sulphide concentrate. The mill has been placed on care and maintenance and is expected to be removed to accommodate expanded leach-pad capacity.

Processing infrastructure includes power and water supply, haulage systems and the necessary maintenance, warehousing, laboratory, fuel and reagent-storage facilities. Key installations include crushers, overland conveyors, valley leach facilities (VLF 1 and VLF 2), process ponds and water-management systems. The mine is accessible by paved road and fully serviced by utilities. Legacy infrastructure includes the Carlton tunnel and former rail systems.

Prospects
As of November 2025, designs for additional valley leach capacity – VLF 1 Phase 6 and VLF 2 Phase 4 – had been completed and submitted for approval, enabling further expansion.

Contact Details
SSR Mining
Tel +1 719 851 4127
Email invest@ssrmining.com
Website https://www.ssrmining.com/