Camye world's largest gold mines
During the last 5 years the price of gold has almost doubled, creating an incredible interest in trading this valuable metal. Daily turnover on the London gold trading speculative precious metals market is about $ 75 billion. Despite the high demand of gold in the world is not so much. By some estimates, all the gold ever mined in human history, would fill only two Olympic swimming pools. Now the earth is only about 51 000 tons of gold and gold mining, as well as a century ago, remains a very profitable business. We present you a selection of ten world's largest gold-mining. At the same time in this list are only private mines. 
production volume in 2001: 40,936,699 g Size: 213 431 ha of
active miners: reeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
Type of mining: open pit and underground mining
(Freeport-McMoRan)
Location: Elke, Nevada
Output in 2001: 40,284,661 g of
active miners:
Type of mining: mine
(Barrick Gold)
Location: Kayyamarka, Peru
Output in 2001: 36,655,923 g
Size: 248 638 859 m2 of
active miners: Newmont Mining; Buenaventura; World Bank
Type of mining: mine
(Newmont Mining)
Location: District Evreka and Elke, Nevada
Output in 2001: 30,844,272 g of
active miners: Barrick Gold
Type of mining: open pit and underground mining
(Barrick Gold)
Location: San Juan, Argentina,
production volume in 2001: 27,130,486 g of
active miners: Barrick Gold
Type of mining: open development
(Barrick Gold)
Location: Klerksdorp, South Africa's
production volume in 2001: 23,558,447 g
Size: 14 602 ha of
active miners: AngloGold Ashanti
Type of mining: underground mining
(AngloGold Ashanti)
Location: Karltonvill, South Africa's
production volume in 2001: 22,452,816 grams
Size: 4188 hectares of
active miners: AngloGold Ashanti
Type of mining: underground mining
(AngloGold Ashanti)
Location: Santiago de Chuko, Peru
Output in 2001: 21,829,126 g of
active miners: Barrick Gold
Type of mining: open development
(Barrick Gold Corp.)
Location: Kalgoorlie, Australia
Production in 2011: 21,262,136 g of
active miners: Barrick Gold, Newmont Mining
Type of mining: open development
(Barrick Gold Corp.)
Location: Boddington, Australia
Production in 2011: 21,006,990 g of
active miners: company «Newmont Mining»
Type of mining: open development (Newmont Mining Corp.)
