NEM

Newmont Corporation

One of the world's largest gold producers, Newmont runs mines across the Americas, Australia, and Africa, pulling out copper, silver, lead, and zinc alongside the gold at sites like Cadia and Peñasquito. It traces back to 1916, when financier William Boyce Thompson blended "New" from New York with "Mont" from his home state Montana to coin the name. In the 1960s it cracked the trick of mining Nevada's "invisible" gold, gold too fine to see even under a microscope, changing the industry.