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la herradura mine
The La Herradura mining operation is located 250 miles (400 kilometers) south of Mesquite in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. It is also 80 kilometers northwest of the city of Caborca and 20 kilometers form the coast of the Gulf of California.The mine is in Mexico's Sonora desert. La Herradura comprises an open pit operations with run of mine heap leach processing. It has been in operation since 1998. Mining Method: open pit Commodity: Gold Estimated Mine Life(yrs): To 2016 Reserves/Resources: 2.33 Moz gold
(Dec 31, 2011, proven and probable reserves) Products: 481.8 koz gold (2011) Owner: Newmont Mining Corp. - 44%
Fresnillo Plc - 56% country/region: MEXICO Continent: North America
| Bald Mountain mine
The Bald Mountain mine is one of the largest gold mines in the United States and in the world. The mine is located in the western part of the United States in White Pine County, Nevada.Bald Mountain is an open-pit, run-of-mine, heap leach gold mine with conventional heap leaching technology and carbon absorption for ore treatment. Mining Method: open pit Commodity: Gold Reserves/Resources: Gold - 78.2 Mt at 0.65 g/t gold (proven) & 198.2 Mt at 0.54 g/t gold (probable) Products: Gold - 93k oz in 2011 Owner: Barrick Gold Corp. country/region: UNITED STATES Continent: North America
| Cortez Gold Mine
Cortez Gold Mine is a large gold mining and processing facility in Lander and Eureka County, Nevada, United States, located approximately 75 miles (120 km) southwest of Elko. It is a complex of several open pit mines, an underground mine, concentrator and several heap leach pads. The Cortez Mountains has been mined since 1862, with silver being the primary commodity until the 1940s. Mining Method: open pit Commodity: Gold Reserves/Resources: 14.5m oz total
(2010proven and probable reserves) Products: 1.14m oz in 2010(Annual Production) Owner: Barrick Gold Corp. country/region: UNITED STATES Continent: North America
| Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine
The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine, formerly and historically the Cresson Mine, is an active gold mine located near the town of Victor, in the Cripple Creek mining district in the US state of Colorado. It is the largest current producer of gold in Colorado.Gold mining in the district begun in the 1890s, mostly as underground operations, chasing high grade veins. Mining Method: open pit Commodity: Gold Estimated Mine Life(yrs): To 2025 Reserves/Resources: 247.38 Mt at 0.79 g/t gold (Dec 31, 2011, proved & probable reserves) Products: Gold - 267 koz in 2011 Owner: AngloGold Ashanti Ltd - 100% country/region: UNITED STATES Continent: North America
| donlin creek gold mine
Donlin Creek is a 32,600 ha mineral property located 480 km north of Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A. on the western flank of the Kuskokwim Mountains. Gold was discovered in the Donlin Creek area in 1909 and placer production of about 30,000 ounces of gold occurred between 1909 and 1956. Mining Method: open pit Commodity: Gold Estimated Mine Life(yrs): 25 Reserves/Resources: 467.7 Mt at 2.23 g/t Au for 33.59 Moz (Reserves - Mar/10) Products: 1.25 Moz annually (est. avg. production over the LOM) Owner: Barrick Gold Corp. (50%), NovaGold Resources Inc. (50%) country/region: UNITED STATES Continent: North America
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