If stockholders approve the mega-merger of GLD and NEM...Nem could begin to rebound....Here is the latest press release:
      DENVER, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation and Newmont Mining Corporation have set May 5, 1997 as the date for a vote by their respective shareholders on the proposed merger of the two companies.  Santa Fe will hold a special shareholder meeting in Albuquerque at the Albuquerque Marriott Hotel, 2101 Louisiana Boulevard, N.E. at 10 a.m. MST on
                            Monday, May 5.  Newmont Mining Corporation and its 91-percent-owned                           subsidiary, Newmont Gold Company, will hold their annual meetings at 11:30                           a.m. and noon MST, respectively, at the Forum, Norwest Bank Lobby, 1740                           Broadway, in Denver that same day.                               The registration statement relating to the shareholder meetings was                           declared effective earlier today.  Proxy materials are being mailed to all                           shareholders in anticipation of the meetings.                               If the merger is approved, the combined company will be the largest North                           American gold company with proven and probable reserves of 55 million ounces                           and gold production of 4 million equity ounces by 1998.
                            SOURCE  Newmont Mining Corporation                               -0-                             04/04/97                               /CONTACT:  Doug Hock, 303-837-5812, or Terry Terens, 303-837-6141; or                           Bruce Hansen, 505-880-5300/                               (NEM GLD)
                            CO:  Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation; Newmont Mining Corporation                           ST:  Colorado                           IN:  MNG                           SU:  TNM |