Mining

Here I will share information about the 10 biggest largest gold mining companies in the world that their production number does affect the value of gold prices at the international level significantly, for the first nine months 2009. Data gathering mostly from each official site of these companies, resumed on :

http://notegolddiamond.blogspot.com/2009/11/top-10-biggest-gold-mining-producers-in.html


1. Barrick Gold Corporation
Still hold the record as the biggest gold miners in the world. Based on Toronto, Canada. Operates 27 mines worldwide. Still more developing others (some as replacements and some for growth) from its owned in-the-ground reserves of gold about 138.5 million ounces.
Barrick leads the gold production with 5,525 million ounces in 9 months 2009, estimated to produce of 7.2-7.6 million ounces within year 2009 and expected to increase to approximately 7.7-8.1 million ounces in 2010.

2. Newmont Mining Corporation
The second largest gold producer in the world with headquartered in Denver, Colorado , USA. For first 9 months, their production of gold was 4,715 million ounces that came from 9 location worldwide. Its annual output prediction for 2009 is range between 5.2 million and 5.4 million ounces.
For 2010, the Company announced that it expects equity gold production to improve by approximately 5-10%, primarily as a result of higher production from Boddington in Australia and Batu Hijau in Indonesia.

3. AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.
The third largest gold producer in the world. Its headquarter in Johannesburg, South Africa. Operates mines in Australia, South Africa, West Africa and South America.
Producing 3.417 million ounces for nine moths 2009. For this year's gold mines prediction at 4.55 to 4.6 million ounces.

4. Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc.
Based on Arizona, North America. Their mines located at North America, South America and Indonesia, with gold produced at 2,105 million ounces for the first 9 months in 2009.

5. GoldCorp Inc.
Based in Vancouver, Canada. This 9 month period (ended September), they produce 1,820 millions ounces gold ounces from their 16 mines worldwide.
For the year 2009, they have gold production guidance approximately 2.4 million ounces.

6. Kinross Gold Corporation
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada. For the first 9 months of 2009 they have gold production 1,624,807 ounces that comes from 9 mines wolrdwide.

7. Harmony
Office located at Randfontein Gauteng, South Africa.In First Year 2009,they produced 1.46 million ounces of gold, making it one of the world's largest gold mining companies. The group's operations are located in 2 country : South Africa (primarily on the Witwatersrand Basin in four provinces, Gauteng, North West Province, Mpumalanga and the Free State) and Papua New Guinea.

8. Newcrest Mining Ltd.
Head Office in Melbourne,Australia. Gold production 1,139,704 ounces. Newcrest owns and operates six mines , five located in Australia and one in Indonesia.

9. Gold Fields Inc.
Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. They have operations in South Africa, Ghana, Australia and Peru. They have gold production at 906,000 ounces in the first 9 months. Their aim is to increase production to approximately 925,000 ounces in this next quarter.

10. Lihir Gold Ltd.
Headquartered in Papua New Guinea, with operations in Papua New Guinea, Australia and West Africa. For the first nine months 2009 they have gold production 845,000 ounces. For the full year 2009, the company expects to produce 1 to 1,2 million ounce.

For your addition, here another biggest gold mining production :

London-based mining giant Rio Tinto plc (RTP)
Rio Tinto's gold and silver interests are located at Kennecott Minerals and Kennecott Utah Copper in the USA, and at our joint ventures at Escondida (Chile), Grasberg (Indonesia) and Northparkes (Australia). For this year 2009, I have difficulties in gathering their gold production news. but for the las year, they have 1,23 million ounce. from mines located at Bingham Canyon (U.S), Cortez/Pipe Line (U.S) and Grasberg (Indonesia) from uk.reuters.com / www.infomine.com

Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.
Canadian company headquartered in Toronto.Quantity of gold produce (payable gold production) in the first nine months of 2009 was 329,628 ounces. For the full year production is expected to be approximately 500,000 ounces of gold.
Their 2010 gold production forecast is now 1.0 million ounce to 1.1 million ounce, while their forecasts for 2011 through 2015 remain unchanged.

Yamana Gold Inc.
Canadian company headquartered in Toronto. A relatively young company that have begun operations in 2003. Total production from all mines of 314,707 ounces gold (about 8.78 ton) for the first 9 months. The company's production plan is targeting in the range of 1.05 to 1.1 million once in 2009. they are committed to the sustainable production of at least 1.1 million once annually and increasing from 2010 onward.

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Largely as a result of Mrs Thatchers dispute with the Miners union. An extended strike left a lot of collieries flooded and unusable, also cheap imports of coal from eastern European countries made British collieries economically nonviable.

The world's largest gold nugget was found in Australia in 1869. This was the "Welcome Stranger", and it measured 61cm by 31cm. It was discovered by prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, which is about halfway between Maryborough and St Arnaud in western Victoria.

By mining it from the earth.

Gold is found in ores made up of rock with very small or microscopic particles of gold. This gold ore is often found together with quartz or sulfide minerals, these are called "lode" deposits. Native gold is also found in the form of free flakes, grains or larger nuggets that have been eroded from rocks and end up in alluvial deposits (called placer deposits). Such free gold is always richer at the surface of gold-bearing veins owing to the oxidation of accompanying minerals followed by weathering, and washing of the dust into streams and rivers, where it collects and can be welded by water action to form nuggets.

Gold extraction from ore grades as little as 0.5 g/1000 kg (0.5 parts per million, ppm) can be economical. Typical ore grades in open-pit mines are 1-5 g/1000 kg (1-5 ppm); ore grades in underground or hard rock mines are usually at least 3 g/1000 kg (3 ppm). Because ore grades of 30 g/1000 kg (30 ppm) are usually needed before gold is visible to the naked eye, in most gold mines the gold is invisible.

In all of history, only 161,000 tons of gold have been mined, barely enough to fill two Olympic-size swimming pools.

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Gold Miners are people a long time ago that panned for gold to become rich. Most of these people were poor that needed to get more money.

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They are many reason's for the strike but one of them is that the miners wanted to work overtime but Margret Thatcher would not pay them and she put a ban on overtime, so the NCB (National Coal Board) offered the miners a 5.2% increase in wages but the miners refused.

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1. China

2. Japan

3. U.S.A

4. Russian Federation

5. India

6. South Korea

7. Germany

8. Ukraine

9. Brazil

10. Italy

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One is China.

It closed as it became unprofitable in 1998.

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Mining should perhaps be banned in highly populated urban areas, and highly valued, sensitive places like nature preserves. A general ban on mining would quickly lead to the end of life as we know it, as we depend on the products of mining and use many of them daily.