Today we want to show you a selection of the world's largest gold-mining. Now the earth is only about 50 000 tons of gold and gold mining remains a very profitable business. This list contains only private mines.

Grasberg
Location: Papua, Indonesia
Production volume in 2001: 40,936,699 g
Size: 213,431 ha of
active miners: reeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
Mining Type: pit and underground mining
(Freeport-McMoRan) Kalgoorlie
Location: Kalgoorlie, Australia
Production in 2011: 21,262,136 g
active miners: Barrick Gold, Newmont Mining
Mining Type: Quarry
(Barrick Gold Corp.) West Wits Location: Carletonville, South Africa
Production in 2001: 22,452,816 g
Size: 4,188 ha of
active miners: AngloGold Ashanti
type of mining: underground mining
(AngloGold Ashanti) Veladero Location: San Juan, Argentina
Production in 2001: 27,130,486 g
active miners: Barrick Gold
Mining Type: open development
(Barrick Gold)
Goldstrike Location: Evreka and Elko County, Nevada
Output in 2001: 30,844,272 g
active miners: Barrick Gold
Mining Type: pit and underground mining
(Barrick Gold) Lagunas Norte Location: Santiago de Chuco, Peru
Output in 2001: 21,829,126 g
active miners: Barrick Gold
Mining Type: Quarry
(Barrick Gold Corp.) Cortez Location: Elko, Nevada
Output in 2001: 40,284,661 g
active miners:
Type of mining: Quarry
(Barrick Gold) Yanacocha Location: Cajamarca, Peru
Output in 2001: 36,655,923 g
Size: 248 638 859 m2 of
active miners: Newmont Mining; Buenaventura; World Bank
Type of Mining: Quarry
(Newmont Mining) Vaal River Location: Klerksdorp, South Africa
Production in 2001: 23,558,447 g
Size: 14 602 ha
active miners: AngloGold Ashanti
type of mining: underground mining


(AngloGold Ashanti) Boddington
Location: Boddington, Australia
Production in 2011: 21,006,990 g
active miners: the company «Newmont Mining»
Mining Type: Quarry (Newmont Mining Corp.)