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Article

12 Dec 2004

Author:
Michael Riley & Greg Griffin, Denver Post [USA]

The high cost of gold: Denver-based mining giant Newmont gleams on Wall Street. But the company is tarnished by a troubled environmental record.

From Nevada to Indonesia to Peru to Turkey, Newmont is battling accusations of misdeeds ranging from contaminating land and water to misusing its power with local governments and disrupting communities...Newmont says it applies the same rigorous environmental standards under which it operates in the United States to its mining in other countries.