A company built on finding invisible gold is learning another difficult trick: buying more mines, then choosing what to keep. The real prize is what survives the sorting.
At Alaska’s Chandalar project, rising gold output could not keep a joint venture alive. Goldrich’s next attempt turns on the less glittering business of water, contracts, capital and cleanup.

She grew up visiting her father at a South African mine. Now, as Newmont’s first woman CEO, Natascha Viljoen brings a processing engineer’s eye to a global business - and keeps listening to the people closest to the work.