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2012 world gold output (in kilograms) Trends in five of the top seven gold-producing countries This is a list of countries by gold production in 2022. [1]Until 2006, South Africa was the world's largest gold producer.
Cortez Gold Mine: 731,700 United States [4] 9: Pueblo Viejo mine: 713,300 Dominican Republic [4] 10: Lihir mine: 701,800 Papua New Guinea [7] [8] See also.
The following are lists of gold mines and are subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and planned mines that have substantial gold output, organized by country. North America
Central banks have been net buyers of gold for 11 consecutive years. According to World Gold Council (WGC) data, central banks around the world bought 272.9 tonnes of bullion in 2020. Purchases ...
World gold production was 3,612 tonnes in 2022. [37] As of 2020, the world's largest gold producer was China with 368.3 tonnes of gold mined in that year. The second-largest producer of gold was Russia where 331.1 tonnes was mined in the same year, followed by Australia with 327.8 tonnes. [38]
Athabasca oil sands – second largest proven petroleum reserve in the world as of 2013, located in northern Alberta along the Athabasca river. Barkerville Mine - Gold Mine near Wells, British Columbia; Colomac Mine – gold mine in Northwest Territories; Copperfields Mine, an abandoned base and precious metal mine in Temagami, Ontario
According to the World Gold Council, central banks purchased a record 483 tons of gold in the first half of the year. Central banks from Turkey, India, and China topped the list of the biggest buyers.
As part of the Witwatersrand, the largest gold mineralization on earth, Mponeng is the result of the discovery of the basin by Europeans. Beginning in the 1850-70s a series of mineral discoveries were made in the area, including those of Pieter Jacobus Marais panning gold from a river and Henry Lewis finding quartz and gold vein on a farm, that led to the Witwatersrand Gold Rush in 1886. [9]