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  2. List of countries by gold production - Wikipedia

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    Until 2006, South Africa was the world's largest gold producer. In 2007, increasing production from other countries and declining production from South Africa meant that China became the largest producer, although no country has approached the scale of South Africa's period of peak production during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

  3. Native metal - Wikipedia

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    Most gold is mined as native metal and can be found as nuggets, veins or wires of gold in a rock matrix, or fine grains of gold, mixed in with sediments or bound within rock. The iconic image of gold mining for many is gold panning, which is a method of separating flakes and nuggets of pure gold from river sediments due to their great density ...

  4. Lists of countries by mineral production - Wikipedia

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    Natural Gas [2] United States ... List of countries by gold production: Iron ore ...

  5. Largest gold deposit in the world worth $83 billion found in ...

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    A discovery of gold reserves, estimated to be worth $83 billion, was made in China last month. China is the world's largest gold producer, Reuters reports.

  6. Gold mining - Wikipedia

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    A miner underground at Pumsaint gold mine, Wales; c. 1938 Landscape of Las Médulas, Spain, the result of hydraulic mining on a vast scale by the Ancient Romans. The exact date that humans first began to mine gold is unknown, but some of the oldest known gold artifacts were found in the Varna Necropolis in Bulgaria.

  7. Precious metal - Wikipedia

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    One of the largest bullion coins in the world was the 10,000-dollar Australian Gold Nugget coin minted in Australia, which consists of a full kilogram of 99.9% pure gold. In 2012, the Perth Mint produced a 1-tonne coin of 99.99% pure gold with a face value of $ 1 million AUD, making it the largest minted coin in the world with a gold value of ...

  8. Orogenic gold deposit - Wikipedia

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    Orogenic gold deposits are responsible for approximately 75% of the world's gold production at over 1 billion ounces, when accounting that the origin of many gold placer deposits were orogenic in nature. [25] [46] The price of gold at a given time will have an impact on whether a deposit will be economically feasible.

  9. The seemingly miraculous finds in Yakutia will help researchers better understand climate, geographical, and biological factors of the ancient world, according to Cheprasov.