University of Nevada gets boost from gold miners

摘要

Barrick Gold (abx-t, abx-n), Goldcorp (gg-t, g-n) and New-inont Mining (nmc-t, nem-n) have donated 2.4 million US dollars to the University of Nevada, Reno's mining engineering program. The money will help develop new faculty positions, student scholarships and grants. Jeff Thompson, dean of the University's College of Science and interim director of the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, noted the importance of the funding in a prepared statement.