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)