10/30/2022 0 Comments Megasync safe![]() ![]() In 2019, Barrick Gold Corp and Newmont formed a mega-company that would be managed by Barrick’s executives. “All they care about is the bottom line, pushing ore through,” Drew said in an interview. ![]() When Drew was injured, there “was no debate on if we should report it.”īut, as Drew recounted in multiple interviews this year, that positive safety culture began to unravel after a merger consolidated the region’s gold mines-some of the world’s largest-into a single company: Nevada Gold Mines. “It was never geared toward the blame game,” they told us. By comparison, Drew said, Newmont supported its workers when they raised serious safety issues. ![]() At their previous mining job near Elko, a Nevada town heavily reliant on the industry, safety was not a priority. When Drew* started working for the Newmont Corporation at a large gold mine in northeastern Nevada, it was a relief. An asterisk is used to denote where a source’s name has been changed to protect their identity. Note: Because some sources were concerned about the possibility of retaliation, gender-neutral pseudonyms were used in this story. This article, a collaboration between High Country News and The Nevada Independent, was supported by grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and is republished here as part of our Climate Desk partnership. Photo illustration by Neu Tokyo for High Country News and The Nevada Independent ![]()
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