Soaring gold boosts Newmont

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NEWMONT MINING $57.12 (New York symbol NEM; Shares outstanding: 500.4 million; Market cap: $27.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 2.1%; www.newmont.com) is one of the world’s largest gold miners. It has major mines in the U.S., Australia and Peru. In the three months ended June 30, 2011, Newmont earned $1.06 a share before one-time items. That’s up 35.9% from $0.78 a share a year earlier (all figures in U.S. dollars). The gains came despite a 16% rise in the company’s overall cost of producing an ounce of gold, to $588 an ounce from $507. Newmont paid more for labour, fuel and raw materials in the quarter. Revenue rose 11.0%, to $2.4 billion from $2.2 billion. The company continues to benefit from rising gold prices. Newmont is now linking future dividend hikes to the price of gold: it will raise the quarterly rate by $0.05 a share for each $100 per ounce rise in its average selling price for gold in the preceding…