NEWCREST MINING

Newcrest is the largest gold producer listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and one of the world's largest gold mining companies. Their mission is to deliver superior returns from finding, developing and operating gold/copper mines. Their vision is to be the Miner of Choice™. They will lead the way in safe, responsible, efficient and profitable mining. Newcrest owns and operates a portfolio of predominantly low cost, long life mines and a strong pipeline of brownfield and greenfield ex... ploration projects. Their reserve and resource base is strong, with gold reserves representing more than 25 years of production at current rates. Newcrest's asset portfolio includes operating mines that use a variety of efficient mining methods for large ore bodies, together with selective underground mining methods to optimise high-grade epithermal deposits.More