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Yanacocha gold mine near Cajamarca, Peru. Yanacocha (Cajamarca Quechua: yana = "black, dark", qucha = "lake, puddle, pond, lagoon") [1] is a gold mine in the Cajamarca region of the Northern Highlands of Peru. [2] Considered to be the fourth largest gold mine in the world, it produced 0.97 million ounces of gold in 2014. [3]
The Alaska-Gastineau Mining Co. had its offices in 25 Broad St., New York City, New York. [1] It was the operating company for the Alaska Gold Mines Co. in Alaska.It worked the Alaska-Gastineau Mine/Perseverance Mine in the Silver Bow Basin, approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) from Juneau and processed its ore at an old remodeled mill and crushing plant at Sheep Creek.
Recreational gold mining and prospecting has become a popular outdoor recreation in a number of countries, including New Zealand (especially in Otago), Australia, South Africa, Wales (at Dolaucothi and in Gwynedd), in Canada and in the United States especially. Recreational mining is often small-scale placer mining but has been challenged for ...
US annual gold production (1840–2012) In the United States, gold mining has taken place continually since the discovery of gold at the Reed farm in North Carolina in 1799. The first documented occurrence of gold was in Virginia in 1782. [1] Some minor gold production took place in North Carolina as early as 1793, but created no excitement.
The Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (New York), probably already founded in 1879, [1] but incorporated on April 22, 1882, in Tompkins County, New York, [2] with a capital of $1,000,000, was a San Francisco Stock and Exchange traded mining company. [3]
Currently, yearly gold mining produces 2% of the existing above-ground gold which is 158,000 tonnes (as of 2006). [125] In 2008, gold mining produced 2,400 tonnes of gold, official gold sales close to 300 tonnes, and dehedging (physical delivery of metal sold months before by mining companies on terminal markets) close to 500 tonnes. [126]
The Macraes Operation has been mining and processing gold bearing ore since 1990 and has produced over 5 million ounces. The Waihi Operation is located on the North Island of New Zealand and was acquired by OceanaGold from Newmont Mining Corporation (Newmont) in 2015. The mine comprises two areas of mineralisation which are at different stages ...