Our Global Sustainability Report includes information on areas that our company and our stakeholders consider material or significantly important. We identify these material issues by talking to our stakeholders, tracking media coverage, and assessing our own operations' performance against our policies and standards. These activities are undertaken at the local, regional, and international levels.

We also rely on our interaction with industry colleagues and stakeholders through the various international initiatives in which we are involved. Our continued participation in the International Council on Mining and Metals and their associated activities, ongoing interaction with stakeholders through such fora as the United Nations Global Compact and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, and our work with the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Project provide us with multiple opportunities to listen to stakeholder concerns and guide our programs more effectively.

In addition, we follow closely the guidance provided by AccountAbility, which recommends the following questions be asked to test what issues might be material.

• Is there a direct financial impact?
• Does it impact policy-related performance?
• Is it in line with organizational peer-based norms?
• Is it in line with stakeholder behavior and concerns?
• Does it conform to societal norms?

This report focuses on:

• The health and safety of our employees, contractors and communities.
• The fair and equitable treatment of our work force.
• The long-term or sustainable contribution our operations make to local communities.
• The protection of the environment throughout the mine life cycle.

Exploration activities, projects and closed sites are included in the report when and as they are material. Suriname, an advanced exploration project that had been included in prior year reporting, has not been included in the 2008 Report. The rationale for this decision is based on the lack of robust data collection systems that makes the data for this project less comparable to that of operating sites.

We prepared the Global Sustainability Report in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines (G3), including the Mining and Metals Sector Supplement (published in 2005). It has been assured by Bureau Veritas. This does not include verification of financial data, which was taken from Newmont's 2008 Annual Report audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

This report also fulfills Newmont's commitment to report on its progress on its commitment to the ICMM 10 Principles of Sustainable Development and its commitment to implement the UN Global Compact's 10 principles on human rights, bribery and corruption, labor and the environment.

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This report focuses on Newmont's current operating sites. Data presented here updates our 2007 report and is for the 2008 calendar year, and all financial figures are quoted in U.S. dollars. References to "Newmont," "the company," "we" and "our" refer to Newmont Mining Corporation and/or our affiliates and subsidiaries.

For more information about Newmont, including specific financial data and details of our governance structure, please refer to our 2008 Annual Report and Form 10-K (an overview of Newmont's business and financial condition submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission).

We welcome your comments. Please e-mail us at: esrgroup@newmont.com.

Alternatively, you may contact:
Dave Baker
Vice President, Environmental and Social Responsibility and Chief Sustainability Officer
dave.baker@newmont.com

Jo Render
Manager, Environmental and Social Responsibility
Jo.Render@Newmont.com