Newmont Corporation is an American gold mining company based in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
It is the world's largest gold mining corporation. Incorporated in 1921, it owns gold mines in Nevada, Colorado, Ontario, Quebec, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Australia, Ghana, Argentina, Peru, and Suriname. In addition to gold, Newmont mines copper, silver, zinc and lead.
William Boyce Thompson, founder of Newmont Mining
Gold Quarry mine, near Carlin, Nevada, 2009.
Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.
Super Pit gold mine at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, 2005
Gold-bearing quartz veins in Alaska
A miner underground at Pumsaint gold mine, Wales; c. 1938.
Landscape of Las Médulas, Spain, the result of hydraulic mining on a vast scale by the Ancient Romans