Laid off from Newmont.

What Newmont layoffs have meant for employees

Which company actually employs you decides which layoff record is yours. On July 1, 2019, Newmont combined its Nevada mines with Barrick's to form Nevada Gold Mines, a venture Barrick operates and Newmont owns 38.5% of, and its 2025 annual report also records the sale of the Cripple Creek & Victor mine in Colorado to SSR on February 28, 2025. Newmont's own 2025 notices, starting with its August 27 letter, name the headquarters on East Layton Avenue in Denver and the Malozemoff Technical Facility in Englewood. If your paycheck came from Nevada Gold Mines, or from Cripple Creek & Victor after that February sale, the announcements and filings of that employer are the ones that speak to your job.

The record starts with leadership and ends with the working levels. The late-2024 reports were about executives, senior managers, general managers and directors, Bloomberg reported in a story MINING.COM carried, and every title on Newmont's first Colorado list was a Head or Group Head. By the final stage of Project Catalyst, the memo Reuters saw described cuts at the levels that hold superintendents, specialists, operators and maintainers, as MINING.COM reported in November 2025. Its final-stage figures, roughly 12% of roles at Level of Work 2 and about 10% at Level of Work 1, are shares of positions rather than counts of people. The leadership cuts that came early didn't mean the rest of the staff was spared, and if your work sits at one of those levels, the memo's account speaks to your part of the company more directly than the early coverage of executive exits did.

For the people on the headquarters notices, the letters set out the same terms each time. The August letter and the two that supplemented it, the October 1 letter and the October 15 letter, each said the layoffs were expected to be permanent, that the impacted employees weren't represented by unions and had no bumping rights, and that they'd be offered severance under Newmont's severance plan. The first two also promised each employee at least 60 days' notice ahead of separation, a line the October 15 letter leaves out. Every separation date in them was an expectation, written as on or about a given day, so it marked a plan for that phase. If your job was on one of these notices, the severance plan is the benefit they point to. Across the whole company the picture differs, with about 27% of the workforce in a union or taking part in collective bargaining at year-end 2025, as the annual report counted it.

Newmont's own accounts show the program's scale. The annual report records $186 million in restructuring and severance for 2025, against $38 million in 2024 and $24 million in 2023, and says the 2025 figure is primarily severance for workforce reductions, with the cost of closing certain offices and related consulting, under a plan management committed to beginning in the third quarter of that year. It puts most of the plan's cash outlays in the fourth quarter or early 2026 and the rest by the first quarter of 2027. That schedule tracks Newmont's spending across the whole plan, and it doesn't date anyone's individual payment. The September 2026 quarterly report shows the costs still running in 2026, at $25 million through September, well below the 2025 pace.

If your Newmont job was in Denver or Englewood, Colorado unemployment benefits covers filing in the state that received all three 2025 letters. Nevada, where Newmont's 2019 notices were filed, has its own rules in Nevada unemployment benefits. In our WARN tracker, Newmont's notices appear as Newmont, Newmont North America and Newmont Goldcorp, the last two from Nevada in 2019.

A sourced history of Newmont layoffs

• 2025, Project Catalyst restructuring after the Newcrest deal

  Newmont's overhaul after buying Newcrest touched about 16% of its workforce through cut jobs, unfilled vacancies and changed role levels, according to a memo Reuters saw that MINING.COM reported. Staff were told it finished a month early.

• August to December 2025, Denver headquarters reduction in force

  Newmont's August 27 letter listed 19 Head and Group Head roles at its Denver headquarters, separations expected from late October. Its October 1 letter added 23 roles, three not in Denver and one elsewhere in Colorado, and its October 15 letter 65 employees expected from around December 14.

• November to December 2024, management cuts in a corporate overhaul

  Newmont let go at least two dozen corporate employees, general managers and directors among them, Bloomberg reported in a December 10 story MINING.COM carried, beyond at least 10 senior managers and an executive in a restructuring begun that November.

• May 2019, Nevada Gold Mines joint venture job cuts

  Forming the venture with Barrick eliminated 130 positions, KNPR reported from the Elko Daily Free Press, as about 60 employees moved into new positions and 70 were laid off, 58 of them from Newmont.

• January 2019, Carlin layoffs after the Gold Quarry slide

  Newmont planned to lay off 120 workers at its Carlin operations by March 9, KNPR reported in an AP story. The company cited surplus staff, partly from a slide that had halted Gold Quarry the previous October.

What to do if you're laid off from Newmont

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Newmont's biggest hubs: Colorado, Nevada. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Newmont's hub states run: Colorado, Nevada, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.