Large gold projects face challenges including declining ore grades, remote locations, water scarcity, and tightening of available capital. New projects also have immense opportunities to imbed innovation throughout the value chain so as to reduce the power requirements, reduce the usage of freshwater, and minimize the future risks of tailings storage. The development of the next generation of projects will be discussed in the context of global trends affecting the mining industry as well as the levers that can be applied to ensure that a project is successful. A sustainable project will become an operation that operates at a cash cost well below the long-term average commodity price. *This is an abstract only. No full paper was prepared for this abstract.*An overview of Newmont Goldcorps Global Projects portfolio will be presented along with the approach being taken by the Global Projects team to ensure successful development of the next group of megaprojects.
CITATION:Hille, S, 2019. Unlocking sustained value from gold megaprojects, in Proceedings MetPlant 2019, p 12 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).