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Number Name of mine Production (Location Citations 1: Olimpiada mine: 1,998,000 Russia [1]2: Grasberg mine: 1,798,000 Indonesia [2]3: Muruntau mine: 1,700,000 Uzbekistan
In 1970, South Africa produced 995 tonnes or 32 million ounces of gold, two-thirds of the world's production of 47.5 million ounces. [2] Production figures are for primary mine production. In the US, for example, for the year 2011, secondary sources (new and old scrap) exceeded primary production. [3]
The largest gold producer is the Fort Knox mine, a large open pit and cyanide leaching operation in the Fairbanks mining district, which in 2019 produced 200,263 gold equivalent ounces. [9] The Pogo (159,344 ounces) and Kensington (127,914 ounces) [ 10 ] gold mines and the Greens Creek polymetallic mine (56,625 ounces) accounted for the ...
Expected to be the largest gold mine on the planet once it's completed, Barrick Gold's Pascua-Lama mine recently saw the Chilean government halt construction. The company reports that it expects ...
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] In 2023, the annual gold demand of 4,448 tonnes was 5% below that of 2022.
China says it has discovered the world’s largest known deposit of gold, estimated to be worth over $80bn (£63bn).. The deposit at the Wangu goldfield in central China could yield more than ...
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 ...