Newmont Profile
Newmont Corporation (Newmont) operates primarily as a gold producer with significant operations and/or assets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Ecuador, Fiji and Ghana.
Newmont is also engaged in the production of copper, silver, lead, and zinc. On November 6, 2023, the company completed the acquisition of Newcrest Mining Limited ('Newcrest').
Global Project Pipeline
Newmont's project pipeline supports stable production with improving margins and mine life. The company manages its wider project portfolio to maintain flexibility to address the development risks associated with the company's projects, including permitting, local community and government support, engineering and procurement availability, technical issues, escalating costs and other associated risks that could adversely impact the timing and costs of certain opportunities.
Ahafo North, Ahafo. This project expands the company's existing footprint in Ghana with four open pit mines and a stand-alone mill located approximately 30 kilometers from the company's Ahafo South operations and will deliver value through the open pit mining and processing of over three million ounces of gold over a 13-year mine life. The project is expected to add between 275,000 and 325,000 ounces per year for the first five full years of production beginning in 2026.
Tanami Expansion 2, Tanami. This project secures Tanami's future as a long-life, low-cost producer with potential to extend mine life to 2040 through the addition of a 1,460-meter hoisting shaft and supporting infrastructure to achieve higher production and provide a platform for future growth. The expansion is expected to increase average annual gold production by approximately 150,000 to 200,000 ounces per year for the first five years.
Cadia Block Caves, Cadia. This project includes two panel caves to recover approximately 5.9 million ounces of gold reserves and 2.9 billion pounds of copper reserves. First ore has been delivered from the first panel cave (PC2-3), and development is underway at the second panel cave (PC1-2). The newly acquired project is under review, and a more fulsome update on the anticipated metrics is expected to be provided in mid 2024.
Licenses and Concessions
Other than operating licenses for the company's mining and processing facilities, there are no third-party patents, operating licenses or franchises material to the company's business. In many countries, however, the company conducts its mining and exploration activities pursuant to land-related licenses which include leases, concessions, claims, or prospecting licenses granted by the host government. These countries include, among others, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Suriname, Chile, Argentina, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Ecuador, Fiji, and Ghana.
Production and Development Properties
Newmont holds investment interests in Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and various other locations.
Cripple Creek & Victor, U.S. (100% owned) CC&V, located next to the town of Victor and the city of Cripple Creek, Colorado, is an open pit operation. The CC&V operation comprises two state mining leases, three surface parcels, 154 mineral parcels, 1,753 patented mining claims and 13 unpatented lode claims encompassing a total area of 12,985 acres (5,255 hectares). CC&V is an epithermal alkalic deposit with heap leaching facilities. The available mining fleet consists of two hydraulic shovels, two loaders, and 21 haul trucks, each with a 250-tonne payload.
Musselwhite, Canada. (100% owned) Musselwhite, located approximately 265 miles (430 kilometers) north of Thunder Bay, Ontario, is an underground operation. The Musselwhite operation comprises 940 mining claims and 338 mining leases, issued under the Ontario Mining Act, encompassing an area of 13,366 acres (5,409 hectares). The mining leases expire between 2025 and 2033. Musselwhite is an iron formation hosted gold deposit. Process facilities include a conventional mill, which consists of a crushing and grinding circuit, carbon-in-pulp and carbon-in-leach plants, elution circuits and an electrowinning plant where the gold is recovered and smelted to produce dore. The available mining fleet consists of 11 underground loaders and 14 haul trucks, each with a 45-tonne payload.
Porcupine, Canada. (100% owned) Porcupine consists of the Hollinger open pit and Hoyle Pond underground operations, located in the city of Timmins, Ontario, as well as the Borden underground operation, located near the town of Chapleau, Ontario. The Porcupine operation is consisted of 699 mining claims, 1,105 mining patents, and 157 mining leases, issued under the Ontario Mining Act, encompassing an area of 98,138 acres (39,715 hectares). The Borden operations is consisted of 488 mining cell claims, 530 surface and mining patents, and 35 surface and mining leases encompassing an area of 245,232 acres (99,241 acres). Mineralization at Hollinger and Hoyle, in Timmins, comprises multiple generations of quartz-carbonate-tourmaline albite veins, associated pyrite alteration envelopes, and disseminated pyrite mineralization. Mineralization at Borden consists of a shear zone containing quartz-vein hosted sulfides within a high-grade metamorphic greenstone package. Process facilities, located in the city of Timmins, include a conventional mill, which consists of a crushing and grinding circuit, carbon-in-pulp and carbon-in-leach plants, Knelson concentrators, Acacia reactor, elution circuits and an electrowinning plant where the gold is recovered and smelted to produce dore. The available mining fleet consists of three hydraulic shovels, six loaders, 21 underground loaders, and 27 haul trucks, with payloads ranging from 30 to 137 tonnes.
Eleonore, Canada. (100% owned) Eleonore, located approximately 510 miles (825 kilometers) north of Montreal in Eeyou Istchee/James Bay in Northern Quebec, is an underground operation. The Eleonore operation is consisted of 368 mining claims and one mining lease, issued under the Quebec Mining Act, encompassing 48,210 acres (19,511 hectares). Eleonore is a clastic sediment-hosted stockwork-disseminated gold deposit. Process facilities include a conventional mill which consists of a crushing and grinding circuit, flotation circuit, carbon-in-pulp circuits and an electrowinning plant where the gold is recovered and smelted to produce dore. The available fleet consists of 15 underground loaders, and 11 haul trucks, each with 45 to 60-tonne payloads.
Red Chris, Canada. (70% owned) Red Chris is 70% owned by Newcrest Red Chris Mining Limited, a Newmont subsidiary, and 30% owned by Red Chris Development Company Ltd., an Imperial Metals subsidiary, and is accounted for under proportionate consolidation. Red Chris is located in northwest British Columbia, Canada, approximately 11 miles (18 kilometers) southeast of the Iskut village, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Dease Lake, and 7 miles (12 kilometers) east of the Stewart-Cassiar Highway 37. The Red Chris operation is consisted of five mining leases which cover 12,703 acres (5,141 hectares) and 75 mineral claims, encompassing an area of approximately 47,140 acres (19,077 hectares). The mining leases expire in 2042. Red Chris is a copper-gold open pit mining operation. Newmont is conducting a feasibility study on a potential underground block cave mine, and has commenced an exploration decline. Gold and copper porphyry-style mineralization consists of vein, disseminated and breccia sulfides. The main sulfide mineral assemblage is pyrite-chalcopyrite-bornite. Ore from the mine is fed to a primary crusher with crushed ore conveyed to a coarse ore stockpile. From there ore is reclaimed and fed to a conventional SAG mill-ball mill-pebble crushing comminution circuit which in turn feeds a flotation circuit. Flotation concentrate is dewatered and loaded into trucks for transportation off-site. The processing facilities are housed in a single process building. Additional to crushing and processing are waste rock storage facilities, a tailings storage facility, water treatment facilities, and waste treatment facilities. The available fleet consists of three face shovels, five drills, 23 trucks (dump and water trucks), three graders, five excavators, nine loaders, and five dozers.
Brucejack, Canada. (100% owned) Brucejack, located in western British Columbia, approximately 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of Stewart and 28 miles (45 kilometers) southwest of the Stewart-Cassiar Highway 37, is an underground operation. The Brucejack operation comprises four mining leases and six core mineral claims which cover 8,169 acres (3,306 hectares) and 337 mineral claims covering 298,795 acres (120,918 hectares). The mining leases expire in 2045. Brucejack is a deformed, porphyry-related transitional to intermediate sulphidation epithermal high-grade gold-silver deposit. Gold is hosted in quartz-calcite vein stockworks, sheeted veins and veinlets and can also be associated with arsenian pyrite. Process facilities include a mill building containing process equipment, including a rock bin, SAG mill-ball mill circuit followed by conventional flotation, concentrate dewatering, concentrate load-out and tailings dewater operations, a water treatment plant, a paste backfill plant, and a metallurgical laboratory. The mining fleet includes a fleet of load-haul-dump vehicles, trucks for material loading and transport to surface, excavators, bolters, shotcrete sprayers, long-hole drills, and cable bolters.
Peñasquito, Mexico. (100% owned) Peñasquito is an open pit operation located in the northeast corner of Zacatecas State, approximately 125 miles (200 kilometers) northeast of the city of Zacatecas and is accessible by paved roads with a private airport close to the site. The property began production in 2009, with commercial production being achieved in 2010. Goldcorp acquired its ownership in the mine in 2006 when it acquired Glamis. In 2019, Newmont acquired Goldcorp, obtaining full ownership interest in Peñasquito. Peñasquito consists of the Peñasco and Chile Colorado open pit mines.
Peñasquito is consisted of 20 mining concessions for operations comprising 113,231 acres (45,823 hectares) and 60 mining concessions for exploration of 107,456 acres (43,486 hectares). Surface rights in the vicinity of the Peñasco and Chile Colorado open pits are held by three ejidos: Ejido Cedros, Ejido Mazapil and Ejido Cerro Gordo. Peñasquito has signed land use agreements with each ejidos, valid through 2035 and 2036, and the relevant private owners.
In August 2020, the company and Cedros General Assembly ratified the definitive agreement that was reached on April 22, 2020 and resolved all outstanding disputes between Peñasquito and the San Juan de Cedros community (Cedros). In addition, easements have been granted in association with the La Pardita-Cedros Highway and the El Salero-Peñasquito powerline. All necessary permits have been granted.
In July 2007, Goldcorp and Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (then Silver Wheaton Corp.) entered into a silver streaming agreement. The company is obligated to sell 25% of silver production from the Peñasquito mine to Wheaton Precious Metals Corporation at the lesser of market price or a fixed contract price, subject to an annual inflation adjustment of up to 1.65%.
The mineralization at Peñasquito contains gold, silver, lead and zinc. Deposits mined within the Peñasquito operations are considered to be examples of breccia pipes developed as a result of intrusion-related hydrothermal activity.
Process facilities include a sulfide processing plant, comprising three stages of flotation: carbon, lead, and zinc. The carbon pre-flotation circuit was added in 2018 ahead of lead flotation to remove organic carbon associated with sedimentary ores. In the lead and zinc flotation, the slurry is conditioned with reagents to activate the desired minerals and produce lead and zinc concentrates. The tailings from the leach circuit undergoes cyanide destruction and combines with final flotation tailings for final deposition in the tailings storage facility.
The available mining fleet consists of five rope shovels, three hydraulic shovels, four loaders, and 82 haul trucks, each with a 312-tonne payload. The fleet is supported by 9 blast hole production drills, as well as track dozers, rubber tire dozers, excavators, and graders.
Brownfield exploration and development for new reserves is ongoing.
In January 2011, Peñasquito entered into a 20-year power delivery agreement with a subsidiary of InterGen Servicios Mexico (now Saavi Energia) where Peñasquito agreed to purchase electrical power from a gas-fired electricity generating facility located near San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato, Mexico. The agreement commenced in August 2015. Power is also supplied by the Mexican Electricity Federal Commission (Comision Federal de Electricidad) at its central power grid through the El Salero-Peñasquito powerline.
Merian, Suriname. (75% owned) Merian is owned 75% by Newmont Suriname, LLC ('Newmont Suriname') (formerly known as Suriname Gold Company LLC and 100% indirectly owned by Newmont Corporation) and 25% by Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V. ('Staatsolie,' a company wholly owned by the Republic of Suriname). Merian is located in Suriname, approximately 40 miles (66 kilometers) south of the town of Moengo and 19 miles (30 kilometers) north of the Nassau Mountains, close to the French Guiana border. The Merian operation is consisted of one Right of Exploitation and five Rights of Exploration encompassing an area of 41,484 acres (16,788 hectares). All of the gold mineralization at Merian is closely associated with quartz veining within siltstone and sandstone formations. The operation includes the Merian 2 open pit, the Merian 1 open pit, the Maraba open pit, and the Kupari open pit. The available mining fleet consists of three shovels, three mining excavators, and 36 haul trucks, each with 150-tonne payload. Merian includes processing facilities that utilize a conventional gold mill, primary crusher and processing plant, consisting of a comminution plant, including gravity and cyanide leach processes, with recovery by carbon-in-leach, elution, electrowinning and induction furnace smelting to produce a gold dore product.
Brownfield exploration and development for new reserves is ongoing.
Cerro Negro, Argentina. (100% owned) Cerro Negro is located in southern Argentina about 250 miles (400 kilometers) southwest of the coastal city of Comodoro Rivadavia. The mineral tenure consists of ten mining property titles encompassing 53,246 acres (21,548 hectares), and three exploration licenses, encompassing 13,193 acres (5,339 hectares). The company also owns lands in the Cerro Negro mine area, totaling approximately 27,429 acres (11,100 hectares), which overlie the Bajo Negro and Vein Zone deposits and adjacent prospects. Cerro Negro consists of the Eureka, Mariana Central, Mariana Norte, Emilia, and San Marcos operating underground mines and the Baja Negro and Silica Cap underground mines, which are in development. Deposits within the Cerro Negro mine operations are low sulfidation, epithermal gold/silver vein deposits. Cerro Negro's available underground mining fleet consists of 8 underground loaders, 12 underground haul trucks and eight surface haul trucks, each with 30 to 40-tonne payloads and additional auxiliary equipment as required. The processing plant facilities consist of a crushing plant, a grinding circuit, agitated leaching, counter-current decantation, solution clarification, Merril Crowe zinc precipitation and smelting to produce gold and silver dore bars that are shipped to a refinery for further processing.
Brownfield exploration and development for new reserves is ongoing, including the development of the Eastern district.
Pueblo Viejo, Dominican Republic. (40% owned) Pueblo Viejo is a joint venture with Barrick, where Barrick is the operator who holds the remaining 60% interest. Commercial production was achieved in January 2013 and the Pueblo Viejo Mine completed its ramp-up to full design capacity in 2014. In March 2006, Barrick acquired the Pueblo Viejo mine as a result of their acquisition of Placer Dome Inc and subsequently sold 40% to Goldcorp. Newmont obtained the 40% ownership of Pueblo Viejo when Newmont acquired Goldcorp in 2019. The company reports its interest in Pueblo Viejo on an equity method basis.
The Pueblo Viejo deposits are located in two major areas, the Monte Negro pit and the Moore pit, and consists of high sulfidation or acid sulfate epithermal gold, silver, copper and zinc mineralization. Process facilities include a conventional mill which consists of a crushing and grinding circuit, autoclaves, and a carbon-in-leach circuit. The plant expansion project is nearing completion and adds a new crusher, SAG mill, carbon-in-leach circuit and a flotation circuit. The tailings storage facility continues to advance. The plant expansion and tailings storage facility are designed to extend its life to 2040 and beyond. In 2013, Pueblo Viejo commissioned a combined cycle reciprocating engine power plant, together with a transmission line connecting the plant to the mine site. The power plant is located near the port city of San Pedro de Macoris and will provide the long-term power supply for the Pueblo Viejo mine. In 2019, Pueblo Viejo signed a 10-year natural gas supply contract with AES Andres DR, S.A. in the Dominican Republic who also completed a new gas pipeline to the facility.
The available mining fleet consists of three shovels, five front loaders, 46 haul trucks, each with an average payload of 177 tonnes, and seven drills.
Yanacocha, Peru. (100% owned) In 2022, the company completed the acquisition of Compañia de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.'s ('Buenaventura') 43.65% noncontrolling interest and Summit Global Management II VB's, a subsidiary of Sumitomo ('Sumitomo'), 5% noncontrolling interest in Yanacocha. At December 31, 2023, the company held 100% ownership interest in Yanacocha.
Yanacocha is located approximately 375 miles (604 kilometers) north of Lima and 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of the city of Cajamarca. Yanacocha is consisted of 18 mining concessions encompassing 245,526 acres (99,361 hectares).
Yanacocha is an epithermal type deposit of high sulfidation hosted in volcanic rock formations. Gold is associated with iron-oxides and pyrite, which is placed on leach pads. Yanacocha consists of the following open pit mines: the La Quinua Complex, the Yanacocha Complex, the Carachugo Complex, and Maqui Maqui. Yanacocha has four leach pads (La Quinua, Yanacocha, Carachugo and Maqui Maqui), with leaching operations at La Quinua and Carachugo. Yanacocha also has three gold processing plants (Pampa Larga, Yanacocha Norte and La Quinua), one limestone processing facility (China Linda) and one mill (Yanacocha Gold Mill). The La Quinua Complex mined material from the La Quinua Sur and the Tapado Oeste Layback and finished mining operations in 2021. The Yanacocha Complex mined material from the Yanacocha Layback and Yanacocha Pinos, which has had limited mining operations in recent years, finished mining operations in 2022. The Maqui Maqui operations mined material from multiple mines that are no longer in operation. The Yanacocha Gold Mill ceased current operations in February 2021 and has been placed into care and maintenance. It will be repurposed for use as part of the Yanacocha Sulfides project. The Carachugo leach pad processes oxide material from Quecher Main. Yanacocha's available mining fleet consists of two shovels, four excavators, and 25 haul trucks, each with 233-tonne payload.
Boddington and Tanami, Australia. Newmont's Boddington and Tanami operations in Australia take place on land that falls under the custodianship of Aboriginal people. Aboriginal land rights in Australia, which recognize the traditional rights and customs of Aboriginal people, are governed by the Commonwealth Native Title Act and certain other Acts specific to individual states and territories. The Commonwealth Native Title Act was enacted in 1993 following a decision in the High Court of Australia, which held that Aboriginal people, who have maintained a continuing connection with their land according to their traditional laws and customs, may hold certain rights which should be recognized under Australian common law. In the Northern Territory, where the Tanami operation is located, the Aboriginal Land Rights Act ('ALRA') was introduced in 1976, which established an Aboriginal Land rights regime. Under the ALRA, approximately 50% of the land in the Northern Territory was granted as Aboriginal freehold land.
Boddington, Australia. (100% owned) Boddington is located 81 miles (130 kilometers) southeast of Perth in Western Australia and is accessible primarily by paved road. Boddington has been wholly owned since June 2009 when Newmont acquired the final 33.33% interest from AngloGold Ashanti Australia Limited.
The Boddington project area comprises 52,506 acres (21,249 hectares) of mining tenure leased from the State of Western Australia, of which 26,910 acres (10,890 hectares) is subleased from the South 32 Worsley Joint Venturers ('Worsley JV'). The total project area is consisted of multiple leases that expire between 2025 and 2043. Royalties are paid to the state government at 2.5% for gold and 5% for copper based on revenue. Shipping and treatment and refining costs are allowable deductions from revenue for royalty calculations for copper. Newmont owns 74,474 acres (30,139 hectares) of rural freehold property, some of which overlaps existing mining tenure. The majority of its current operational area is located on its freehold property.
Brownfield exploration and development for new reserves is ongoing.
Tanami, Australia. (100% owned) Tanami is located in the Northern Territory approximately 342 miles (550 kilometers) northwest of Alice Springs. The underground mining infrastructure and operation is located at Dead Bullock Soak ('DBS'). The processing infrastructure is located 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the east of the mining operations at the Granites. Ore is transported by road train from DBS underground to the processing facility at the Granites.
The Newmont Tanami Operations are consisted of exploration licenses encompassing a total area of 1,510,806 acres (611,402 hectares) including 648,157 acres (262,300 hectares) relating to the Tobruk and Monza Joint Ventures entered into with Prodigy Gold, for which Newmont is the operator, and 11,025 acres (4,462 hectares) of mineral leases granted pursuant to the Northern Territory Mineral Titles Act. Additionally, Newmont operates through exploration and mining agreements with the Central Land Council who represent Traditional Owners, the Warlpiri people.
Tanami consists of sediment hosted sheeted quartz vein mineralization. Tanami, as an underground mining operation, has a fleet of ten underground loaders and 23 haul trucks, each with 60 to 65-tonne payloads. Processing plant facilities consist of a crushing plant, a grinding circuit, a gravity circuit, carbon in pulp tanks and a conventional tailings disposal facility.
Brownfield exploration and development for new reserves is ongoing with the main focus being underground ore definition drilling of the Auron, Federation and Liberator ore bodies, as well as exploration of the Oberon deposit.
Cadia, Australia. (100% owned) Cadia is located approximately 16 miles (25 kilometers) south-southwest of the town of Orange in New South Wales ('NSW') and is accessible primarily by paved roads and through the Orange airport located approximately 8 miles (13 kilometers) northeast of the Cadia Operations. The Cadia Operations consist of six granted mining leases and five granted exploration licenses through NSW encompassing a total area of 53,128 acres (21,500 hectares). Newmont predominantly owns all properties covered by the mining leases and a number of properties in the surrounding area. The main mining lease expires in October 2038 but can be renewed. Newcrest acquired the Cadia mine in 1991. Newmont obtained the 100% ownership of Cadia when Newmont acquired Newcrest in 2023.
Cadia consists of the Cadia East, Cadia Extended, and Ridgeway deposits, which consist of alkalic porphyry gold-copper style mineralization and the Big Cadia deposit which is a skarn-style occurrence.
Cadia operates two adjacent concentrators, Concentrator 1 and Concentrator 2, treating ore from Cadia East mine. Both concentrators have undergone throughput upgrades, including operational improvements, over the years. Water supply at Cadia is sourced from the Cadiangullong Dam, Upper Rodds Creek Dam, Flyers Creek Weir, Cadia Creek Weir, Orange Sewage Treatment Plant treated effluent, Blayney Sewage Treatment Plant treated effluent, on-site groundwater bores, Belubula River, Cadia Extended open pit (a completed and backfilled extension of the Cadia Hill open pit) and site runoff. Cadia sources all of its power from the National Electricity Market. Cadia is under an electricity supply agreement and holds a power purchase agreement.
Production mining is an underground panel cave mining from Cadia East with underground crushing and conveyor to surface. The processing plant infrastructure includes high pressure grinding rolls, SAG mills, ball mills, flotation, coarse ore flotation, gravity concentrator and a molybdenum plant to produce copper and gold concentrate, gold dore and molybdenum concentrate.
Telfer, Australia. (100% owned) Telfer, located in the East Pilbara region in Western Australia, approximately 280 miles (450 km) southwest of Port Hedland, is an open pit and underground operation. The operations comprise 30 mining leases and four general purpose leases which cover 67,368 acres (27,263 hectares). The main mining leases expire in 2024. Gold and copper mineralization is contained within narrow high grade reefs, pod-like mineralized bodies, sheeted vein sets and low grade stockworks hosted by Proterozoic sedimentary rocks. Copper mineralization is also contained within chalcopyrite, chalcocite and bornite sulfide species. Process facilities include two processing trains, each comprised a SAG and ball milling circuit, a flash flotation circuit, gravity recovery circuits, a copper-pyrite flotation circuits, a carbon-in-leach plant, counter-current decantation circuit, concentrate dewatering and load out, tailings dewatering, carbon recovery and elution circuit and supplementary dump leach. Gold recovered from the gravity circuit and gold eluted from carbon-in-leach and dump leach carbon are recovered via electrowinning and smelting in the gold room to produce dore. The underground mining mobile fleet consists of seven underground loaders and six trucks each with a 50-tonne payload. Telfer underground also consists of an underground crusher and hoisting system capable of hoisting 900t/hr to the surface. The open pit mining fleet comprises 31 haul trucks and three excavators.
Lihir, Papua New Guinea. (100% owned) Lihir is an open pit mine located near the town of Londolovit on Lihir Island, approximately 560 miles (900 kilometers) northeast of Port Moresby, the national capital. Access to Lihir Island is through the Kunaye airport located approximately 4 miles (7 kilometers) north of the mine. Newcrest acquired the Lihir mine in 2010. Newmont obtained the 100% ownership of Lihir when Newmont acquired Newcrest in 2023.
The Lihir deposit is considered to be an example of an epithermal gold deposit. Lihir Island is part of a 155 mile (250-kilometers) long, northwest-trending, alkalic volcanic island chain that sits within an area where several micro-plates (Solomon Sea Plate, South Bismarck Plate and North Bismarck Plate) developed between the converging Australian and South Pacific plates. Lihir Island comprises two Plio-Pleistocene volcanic blocks, Londolovit Block and Wurtol Wedge and three Pleistocene volcanic edifices, Huniho, Kinami, and Luise.
Lihir consists of a granted Special Mining Lease, two granted Mining Leases, one granted Exploration License, five granted Leases for Mining Purposes, and three Mining Easements held in the name of Lihir Gold. The total area under license is approximately 63,506 acres (25,700 hectares). Lihir is situated on land held variously under customary, State of PNG, and private ownership, including under State of PNG lease. The bulk of the land that is or will be affected by development, operations and closure of the Lihir Operations is customary owned. Newmont has been granted rights to undertake mining and processing of gold and related activities, through negotiations with the state and local government, and landowners in the area. Environment Permits for water extraction and waste disposal are in place to support mining operations. The Londolovit River is the main source of water for the process plant and surrounding area.
Ahafo and Akyem, Ghana. All of Newmont's operations in Africa are located in Ghana. In December 2003, Ghana's Parliament unanimously ratified an Investment Agreement ('IA') between Newmont and the government of Ghana.
The Ahafo and Akyem mines operate using electrical power generated by the Volta River Authority along with supplemental power generation capacity built by Newmont.
Ahafo, Ghana. (100% owned) The company's Ahafo operation ('Ahafo South') is located near Kenyasi in the Ahafo Region of Ghana, approximately 180 miles (290 kilometers) northwest of the national capital city of Accra, and is largely accessible by paved roads. In 2002, Newmont acquired 50% of Ahafo South as a result of the merger with Normandy. In 2003, Newmont purchased the remaining interest from Moydow Mines International Inc. ('Moydow'), thereby making it a wholly owned subsidiary. The Ahafo South mine commenced commercial production in 2006 and operates a mill, two pits and an underground operation.
The Ahafo South operations are consisted of three mining leases issued under the Ghanaian Mining Act encompassing a total area of approximately 137,000 acres (55,000 hectares) with current mine take area of approximately 13,200 acres (5,300 hectares) that has been fully compensated and approximately 10,700 acres (4,300 hectares) of mining area that has not been fully compensated (e.g. payment would be necessary to move people from their land). The mining leases grant the exclusive rights to work, develop and produce gold in the lease area, including the processing, storing and transportation of mineral and materials. The mining leases require Ahafo South to respect or perform certain financial and statutory reporting obligations and expire in 2031 and are renewable subject to certain conditions.
The Ahafo South mine is composed of three orogenic gold deposits that have oxide and primary mineralization. Gold occurs primarily in pyrite and secondarily as native gold in quartz veins. Ahafo South has two active open pits, Subika and Awonsu. Subika added an underground operation, which reached commercial production in November 2018, and Awonsu completed a layback in November 2019. The available mining fleet for surface mining consists of three shovels and 36 haul trucks, each with 141-tonne payload. The available mining fleet for underground mining consists of eight underground loaders and 13 haul trucks, with payload ranging from 55 to 57-tonnes. The daily production rate is approximately 88,000 tonnes. The original processing plant was commissioned in 2006. The Ahafo Mill Expansion, which was completed in October 2019, expanded the plant capacity to process approximately 11 million tonnes per year. The current processing plant consists of two crushing plants, two grinding circuits, carbon-in-leach circuits, elution circuit, counter current decantation circuit, a tailings disposal facility, a reverse osmosis water treatment plant, and an analytical laboratory managed by a third party.
Brownfield exploration and development for new reserves is ongoing.
Akyem, Ghana. (100% owned) Akyem, located in Birim North District of the Eastern Region of Ghana, approximately 80 miles (125 kilometers) northwest of the national capital city of Accra, is an open pit mining operation consisted of two mining leases issued under the Ghanaian Mining Act, encompassing an area of approximately 16,000 acres (6,000 hectares). The Akyem mine is an orogenic gold deposit that has oxide and primary mineralization. Process facilities include a crushing plant, a SAG and ball milling circuit, carbon-in-leach circuit, elution circuit and bullion smelting facilities. The available mining fleet consists of four excavators made up of two front end shovels and two backhoe excavators and twenty-one 145-tonne payload haul trucks.
NGM, Nevada, U.S. (38.5% owned) NGM is located in Elko, Nevada. On July 1, 2019, Newmont and Barrick consummated the Nevada JV Agreement, which combined the company's Nevada mining operations with Barrick's Nevada mining operations resulting in the establishment of NGM, a joint venture with Barrick, who is the operator, and which is accounted for by the company under proportionate consolidation. NGM operations are primarily accessible by paved road and are consisted of 180,921 acres (73,217 hectares) in aggregate including Cortez 53,999 acres (21,853 hectares), Carlin 58,255 acres (23,575 hectares), Turquoise Ridge 26,679 acres (10,797 hectares), Phoenix 17,900 acres (7,244 hectares), and Long Canyon 24,088 acres (9,748 hectares).
NGM owns, or controls through leases, fee ownership, and unpatented mining claims, all of the minerals and surface area within the boundaries of the present Nevada mining operations. The long-term leases extend for at least the anticipated mine life of those deposits. With respect to a significant portion of the Gold Quarry mine at Carlin, NGM pays a net smelter royalty equivalent to 16.2% of the mineral production. NGM wholly-owns or controls the remainder of the Gold Quarry mineral rights, in some cases subject to additional royalties. With respect to certain smaller deposits in Nevada, NGM is obligated to pay royalties on production to third parties that vary from 1% to 8% of production.
Each site has its own process facilities, which include: an oxide mill, which consists of a crushing and grinding circuit and carbon-in-leach circuit, and two heap leach pads at Cortez; an autoclave, two roasters, an oxide mill/flotation circuit and four heap leach pads at Carlin; the Sage autoclave, an oxide mill, and three heap leach pads at Turquoise Ridge; a flotation mill, a carbon-in-leach plant, a copper leach pad and a solvent extraction electrowinning ('SX/EW') plant at Phoenix; and a heap leach pad at Long Canyon. NGM has a current capacity across all sites to mine approximately 340,000 tonnes of material per day. The milling facilities were commissioned over a range of years beginning in the 1990's. They undergo routine maintenance each year with process improvements implemented as the projects are identified and approved. Power is either purchased in the open market or supplied by the power plants owned and operated by NGM.
The NGM operations include, in aggregate, an open pit mining fleet consisting of 28 shovels and 162 haul trucks with an average payload of 263 tonnes, and an underground mining fleet consisting of 59 underground loaders and 88 haul trucks, with an average payload of 35 tonnes.
Brownfield exploration and development for new reserves is ongoing.
History
The company was founded in 1916. It was incorporated in 2001. The company was formerly known as Newmont Goldcorp Corporation and changed its name to Newmont Corporation in 2020.
