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Author Morris, Jack H

Title Going for gold : the history of Newmont Mining Corporation / Jack H. Morris
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 395 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. Eureka; 2. Colonel; 3. Veins; 4. Africa; 5. Plato; 6. Magma; 7. Desert Gold; 8. Black Gold; 9. The End of an Era; 10. Shareholder Value; 11. Going Crazy; 12. Grief; 13. Jimmy; 14. New Horizons; 15. Culture Shock; 16. Vision; 17. Faith, Hope, and Hedging; 18. Pinnacle; 19. A Good Neighbor; 20. Sustaining Success; Appendix: Officers and Directors; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary A Fortune 500 company as a pioneer of current gold-mining technology Jack H. Morris details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains today the second largest gold miner in the world. He asserts that Newmont is the link between early gold mining and today's technology-driven industry. We learn how the company's founder and several early leaders grew up in gold camps and how, in 1917, the company helped finance South Africa's largest gold company and later owned famous gold mines in California and Colorado. In the 1960s the company developed the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-375) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Newmont Mining Corporation.
SUBJECT Newmont Mining Corporation fast
Subject Gold mines and mining -- Colorado -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
Gold mines and mining
SUBJECT Colorado -- Gold discoveries
Subject Colorado
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817384432
081738443X