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Mulatos project jpeg Placer Dome Inc. is a publicly-owned company and its shares are widely distributed. On December 31, 1996 the Corporation had 239,499,835 shares outstanding and 17,187 shareholders of record. Of the shares outstanding, 46.16% were registered in the United States, 52.27% in Canada and 1.57% elsewhere.

The Corporation was established on August 13, 1987 by the amalgamation of Placer Development Limited of Vancouver (incorporated in 1926), Dome Mines Limited (incorporated in 1910) and Campbell Red Lake Mines Limited (incorporated in 1944), both of Toronto. Placer Dome has interests in 14 mines: 13 are gold mines, located in Australia, Canada, Chile, Papua New Guinea and the United States. Two new mines have already started up in 1997 and a third, in Venezuela, starts in 1998. By the end of 1996, the Corporation employed 8,300 people (1995 - 8,000).

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