Newmont donates US$250,000 to University of Nevada

Newmont Mining (NEM-N) is supporting the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, with a gift of US$250,000 to support students, faculty, research and educational outreach.

The money will help “facilitate the university’s vision to create one of the finest mining and earth sciences schools in the world,” said Jeff Thompson, dean of the College of Science.

Newmont’s latest gift supports the Arentz Student Center, allows for further recruitment and retention of Mackay students and supports professor Maurice Fuerstenau, who helps prepare undergraduate students for careers in extractive metallurgy in the industry.

The gift will also endorse further minerals-processing engineering research relevant to issues facing the mining industry, education and research in economic geology, the Newmont Scholars and the Mackay Fund for Excellence.

Over the past 40 years, Newmont has given nearly US$5 million to the Mackay School.

“Newmont’s staunch support has positioned Mackay’s mining-related programs to grow and develop, which in turn helps support the needs, both human resource and research, of the mining industry,” Thompson said.