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                                                        Registration No. 333-
  
  
                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                               Washington, D.C. 20549
                                      FORM S-8
  
                            REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
  
                             THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
  
                                NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY
  
                 (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)
  
          Delaware                                        13-2526632
  - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  (State of incorporation)                    (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
  
  1700 Lincoln Street, Denver, Colorado                      80203
  - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  (Address of Principal Executive Offices)                 (Zip Code)
  
                 NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY HOURLY RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN
                NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY SALARIED RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN
  
                              (Full title of the Plans)
  
      Timothy J. Schmitt, Esq.                     -With a copy to-
      Newmont Gold Company
      1700 Lincoln Street                          Thomas A. Richardson, Esq.,
      Denver, Colorado 80203                       Holme Roberts & Owen LLC
      (303) 863-7414                               1700 Lincoln, Suite 4100
      (Name, address and telephone                 Denver, Colorado  80203
      number of agent for service)                 (303) 861-7000
  
                           CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
  
  <TABLE>
  <CAPTION>
      Title of               Maximum Aggregate          Proposed Maximum             Proposed                   Amount of
  Securities to be           No. of Shares to            Offering Price         Maximum Aggregate             Registration
     Registered              be Registered                Per Share (1)         Offering Price (1)                Fee
  - ----------------           -----------------          ----------------        ------------------            ------------
  <C>                        <C>                        <C>                     <C>                           <C>    
  Common Stock,
  $.01 Par Value             1,000,000                       $53.9375              $53,937,500                  $18,599
          (2)
  </TABLE>
                      ----------------------------------------
  
  (1) The shares registered hereunder are to be offered at an offering price not
  presently determinable. Pursuant to Rule 457(c), the offering price is estimated
  solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee and is based on the
  average of the high and low prices of the Company's common stock reported on the
  New York Stock Exchange on August 20, 1996. (2) In addition, pursuant to Rule
  416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also covers
  an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the
  employee benefit plans described above.
  <PAGE>   2
                                       PART II
  
  
                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
  
  ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
  
           The Company hereby incorporates by reference in this Prospectus the
  Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1995, the
  Plans' Annual Reports on Form 11-K for the year ended December 31, 1995, and 
  the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31 and
  June 30, 1996. The Company also incorporates by reference the description of its
  common stock contained in Form 10 filed June 17, 1986 (File No. 1-9184). All
  documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14
  or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
  which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters
  all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
  reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date
  of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document all
  or a portion of which is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
  herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
  Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any
  other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated
  by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so
  modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
  to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
  
  
  ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
  
           Not applicable.
  
  
  ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
  
           Not applicable.
  
  
  ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
  
           Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes and
  empowers the Company to indemnify the directors, officers, employees and agents
  of the Company against liabilities incurred in connection with, and related
  expenses resulting from, any claim, action or suit brought against any such
  person as a result of his relationship with the Company, provided that such
  persons acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to
  be in, and not opposed to, the best interests of the Company in connection with
  the acts or events on which such claim, action or suit is based. The finding of
  either civil or criminal liability on the part of such persons in connection
  with such acts or events is not necessarily determinative of the question of
  whether such persons have met the required standard of conduct and are,
  accordingly, entitled to be indemnified. The foregoing statements are subject to
  the detailed provisions of Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the
  State of Delaware.
  
           The By-Laws of the Company provide that the Company shall indemnify, in
  all respects and to the full extent authorized or permitted by law, any person
  who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened,
  pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
  administrative or investigative, by reason of
  
  
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  his being or having been a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company
  or, at the request of the Company, of any other corporation, partnership, joint
  venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys' fees),
  judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement reasonably incurred by such
  person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding. Such indemnification
  of any person shall inure to the benefit of his heirs, executors and
  administrators.
  
  
  ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
  
           Not applicable
  
  
  ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS.
  
  <TABLE>
  <CAPTION>
  Exhibit Number    Description of Documents
  - --------------    ------------------------
  
  <S>               <C>                                                   
        5.1         Opinion of Holme Roberts & Owen LLC
  
       23.1         Consent of Holme Roberts & Owen LLC (contained in Exhibit 5.1)
  
       23.2         Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP
  
       24.1         Power of Attorney
  </TABLE>
  
  
  ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.
  
           The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
  
           (1)    to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
  made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
  
                  (i)    to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3)
           of the Securities Act;
  
                  (ii)   to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
           after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
           recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
           aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth
           in the registration statement; and
  
                  (iii)  to include any material information with respect to the
           plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
           statement or any material change to such information in the
           registration statement;
  
           provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) do not apply if
           the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment
           by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the
           Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act
           that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement;
  
  
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           (2)    that, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
  Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
  registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
  offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
  fide offering thereof;
  
           (3)    to remove from registration by means of a post-effective 
  amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
  termination of the offering;
  
           (4)    that, for purposes of determining any liability under the
  Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to
  Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in
  this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
  relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
  at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; and
  
           Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
  Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
  Company pursuant to the provisions described in Item 6, or otherwise, the
  Company has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
  indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
  is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
  against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses
  incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in
  the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
  director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
  registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
  has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
  jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
  policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
  adjudication of such issue.
  
  
  
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                                     SIGNATURES
  
            The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
  1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
  believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
  duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
  undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Denver, State of
  Colorado, on the 23rd day of August, 1996.
  
                                        NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY
  
  
  
                                        By   /s/ Timothy J. Schmitt
                                           -------------------------------------
                                             Timothy J. Schmitt
                                             Vice President, Secretary and
                                             Assistant General Counsel
  
  
           Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
  this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in
  the capacities and on the dates indicated.
  
  <TABLE>
  <CAPTION>
           Signature                     Title                                       Date
           ---------                     -----                                       ----
  <S>                                    <C>                                         <C>
  
                                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Rudolph I.J. Agnew
  
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  J. P. Bolduc
  
                                         Chairman, President and
               *                         Chief Executive Officer                     August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------         and Director (Principal Executive
  Ronald C. Cambre                       Officer)                         
                                         
  
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Joseph P. Flannery
  
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Leo I. Higdon, Jr.
  
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Thomas A. Holmes
  </TABLE>
  
  
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  <TABLE>
  <S>                                    <C>                                         <C>
  
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Robin A. Plumbridge
  
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Robert H. Quenon
  
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Moeen A. Qureshi
  
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Michael K. Reilly
  
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  James V. Taranik
  
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  William I.M. Turner, Jr.
  
  
                                         Executive Vice President
               *                         and Chief Financial                         August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------         Officer (Principal Financial
  Wayne W. Murdy                         Officer)                    
                                         
  
  
               *                         Vice President and Controller               August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------         (Principal Accounting Officer)
  Gary E. Farmar                         
  
  
  *By  /s/ Timothy J. Schmitt
     ---------------------------
       Timothy J. Schmitt as Attorney-in Fact
  </TABLE>
  
  
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           The Plans. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
  as amended, the Trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit
  plans) have duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf
  by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Denver, State of
  Colorado, on the 23rd day of August, 1996.
  
                                              NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY HOURLY
                                              RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN
  
  
  
                                              By /s/ Dawn M. Putaturo
                                                ----------------------------------
                                                 Dawn M. Putaturo, Member
                                                 Administration Committee
  
  
                                              NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY
                                              SALARIED RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN
  
  
  
                                              By /s/ Dawn M. Putaturo
                                                ----------------------------------
                                                 Dawn M. Putaturo, Member
                                                 Administration Committee
  
  
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                                    EXHIBIT INDEX
  
  
  <TABLE>
  <CAPTION>
  Exhibit No.
  - -----------
  
  <S>              <C>
   5.1             Opinion of Holme Roberts & Owen LLC
   23.1            Consent of Holme Roberts & Owen LLC (contained in Exhibit 5.1).
   23.2            Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP
   24.1            Power of Attorney
  </TABLE>
  
  
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text: 1
                                                        Registration No. 333-
  
                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                               Washington, D.C. 20549
                                      FORM S-8
  
                            REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
  
                             THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
  
                                NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY
  
                 (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)
  
          Delaware                                        13-2526632
  - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  (State of incorporation)                    (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
  
  1700 Lincoln Street, Denver, Colorado                      80203
  - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  (Address of Principal Executive Offices)                 (Zip Code)
  
                 NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY HOURLY RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN
                NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY SALARIED RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN
  
                              (Full title of the Plans)
  
      Timothy J. Schmitt, Esq.                     -With a copy to-
      Newmont Gold Company
      1700 Lincoln Street                          Thomas A. Richardson, Esq.,
      Denver, Colorado 80203                       Holme Roberts & Owen LLC
      (303) 863-7414                               1700 Lincoln, Suite 4100
      (Name, address and telephone                 Denver, Colorado  80203
      number of agent for service)                 (303) 861-7000
  
                           CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
  Title of               Maximum Aggregate          Proposed Maximum             Proposed                   Amount of
  Securities to be           No. of Shares to            Offering Price         Maximum Aggregate             Registration
     Registered              be Registered                Per Share (1)         Offering Price (1)                Fee
  - ----------------           -----------------          ----------------        ------------------            ------------
  Common Stock,
  $.01 Par Value             1,000,000                       $53.9375              $53,937,500                  $18,599
          (2)
  ----------------------------------------
  
  (1) The shares registered hereunder are to be offered at an offering price not
  presently determinable. Pursuant to Rule 457(c), the offering price is estimated
  solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee and is based on the
  average of the high and low prices of the Company's common stock reported on the
  New York Stock Exchange on August 20, 1996. (2) In addition, pursuant to Rule
  416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also covers
  an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the
  employee benefit plans described above.
  2
                                       PART II
  
                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
  
  ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
  
           The Company hereby incorporates by reference in this Prospectus the
  Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1995, the
  Plans' Annual Reports on Form 11-K for the year ended December 31, 1995, and 
  the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31 and
  June 30, 1996. The Company also incorporates by reference the description of its
  common stock contained in Form 10 filed June 17, 1986 (File No. 1-9184). All
  documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14
  or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
  which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters
  all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
  reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date
  of filing of such documents. Any statement contained herein or in a document all
  or a portion of which is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
  herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
  Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any
  other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated
  by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so
  modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
  to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
  
  ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
  
           Not applicable.
  
  ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
  
           Not applicable.
  
  ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
  
           Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes and
  empowers the Company to indemnify the directors, officers, employees and agents
  of the Company against liabilities incurred in connection with, and related
  expenses resulting from, any claim, action or suit brought against any such
  person as a result of his relationship with the Company, provided that such
  persons acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to
  be in, and not opposed to, the best interests of the Company in connection with
  the acts or events on which such claim, action or suit is based. The finding of
  either civil or criminal liability on the part of such persons in connection
  with such acts or events is not necessarily determinative of the question of
  whether such persons have met the required standard of conduct and are,
  accordingly, entitled to be indemnified. The foregoing statements are subject to
  the detailed provisions of Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the
  State of Delaware.
  
           The By-Laws of the Company provide that the Company shall indemnify, in
  all respects and to the full extent authorized or permitted by law, any person
  who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened,
  pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
  administrative or investigative, by reason of
  
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  his being or having been a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company
  or, at the request of the Company, of any other corporation, partnership, joint
  venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys' fees),
  judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement reasonably incurred by such
  person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding. Such indemnification
  of any person shall inure to the benefit of his heirs, executors and
  administrators.
  
  ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
  
           Not applicable
  
  ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS.
  Exhibit Number    Description of Documents
  - --------------    ------------------------
  5.1         Opinion of Holme Roberts & Owen LLC
  
       23.1         Consent of Holme Roberts & Owen LLC (contained in Exhibit 5.1)
  
       23.2         Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP
  
       24.1         Power of Attorney
  ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.
  
           The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
  
           (1)    to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
  made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
  
                  (i)    to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3)
           of the Securities Act;
  
                  (ii)   to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
           after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
           recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
           aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth
           in the registration statement; and
  
                  (iii)  to include any material information with respect to the
           plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
           statement or any material change to such information in the
           registration statement;
  
           provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) do not apply if
           the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment
           by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the
           Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act
           that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement;
  
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  4
           (2)    that, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
  Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
  registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
  offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
  fide offering thereof;
  
           (3)    to remove from registration by means of a post-effective 
  amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
  termination of the offering;
  
           (4)    that, for purposes of determining any liability under the
  Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to
  Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in
  this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
  relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
  at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; and
  
           Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
  Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
  Company pursuant to the provisions described in Item 6, or otherwise, the
  Company has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
  indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
  is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
  against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses
  incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in
  the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
  director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
  registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
  has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
  jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
  policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
  adjudication of such issue.
  
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  5
                                     SIGNATURES
  
            The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
  1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
  believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
  duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
  undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Denver, State of
  Colorado, on the 23rd day of August, 1996.
  
                                        NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY
  
                                        By   /s/ Timothy J. Schmitt
                                           -------------------------------------
                                             Timothy J. Schmitt
                                             Vice President, Secretary and
                                             Assistant General Counsel
  
           Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
  this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in
  the capacities and on the dates indicated.
  Signature                     Title                                       Date
           ---------                     -----                                       ----
  Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Rudolph I.J. Agnew
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  J. P. Bolduc
  
                                         Chairman, President and
               *                         Chief Executive Officer                     August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------         and Director (Principal Executive
  Ronald C. Cambre                       Officer)                         
                                         
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Joseph P. Flannery
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Leo I. Higdon, Jr.
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Thomas A. Holmes
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  *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Robin A. Plumbridge
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Robert H. Quenon
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Moeen A. Qureshi
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  Michael K. Reilly
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  James V. Taranik
  
               *                         Director                                    August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------
  William I.M. Turner, Jr.
  
                                         Executive Vice President
               *                         and Chief Financial                         August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------         Officer (Principal Financial
  Wayne W. Murdy                         Officer)                    
                                         
  
               *                         Vice President and Controller               August 23, 1996
  - ------------------------------         (Principal Accounting Officer)
  Gary E. Farmar                         
  
  *By  /s/ Timothy J. Schmitt
     ---------------------------
       Timothy J. Schmitt as Attorney-in Fact
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           The Plans. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
  as amended, the Trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit
  plans) have duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf
  by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Denver, State of
  Colorado, on the 23rd day of August, 1996.
  
                                              NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY HOURLY
                                              RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN
  
                                              By /s/ Dawn M. Putaturo
                                                ----------------------------------
                                                 Dawn M. Putaturo, Member
                                                 Administration Committee
  
                                              NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY
                                              SALARIED RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN
  
                                              By /s/ Dawn M. Putaturo
                                                ----------------------------------
                                                 Dawn M. Putaturo, Member
                                                 Administration Committee
  
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                                    EXHIBIT INDEX
  Exhibit No.
  - -----------
  5.1             Opinion of Holme Roberts & Owen LLC
   23.1            Consent of Holme Roberts & Owen LLC (contained in Exhibit 5.1).
   23.2            Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP
   24.1            Power of Attorney
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