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<CONFORMED-NAME>PERRY RICHARD
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<STATE-OF-INCORPORATION>DE
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      <footnote id="F2"> Immediately Exerciseable.</footnote>

      <footnote id="F3"> Shares of phantom stock are payable in cash following termination of the reporting person's employment with Newmont Mining Corporation.</footnote>

      <footnote id="F4"> As of December 29, 2003, the reporting person held 829 shares of Newmont Mining Corporation common stock in his 401-K plan.</footnote>
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   <ownerSignature>
      <signatureName>/s/ Sharon Thomas, Assistant Secretary, as attorney-in-fact</signatureName>
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