Newmont Mining Corporation History (1921- 1993)
The German owners had collected an extremely rich ore at the mine, and when the site was seized in 1939 by South Africa's Custodian of Enemy Property about 800,000 tons of the ore had been left at the surface. ... With high gold prices, it took only 30 months for the Telfer gold mine (70 percent owned by Newmont) in Australia's Great Sandy ...