Gold mines in the world

Countries are major producers of gold in the world is South Africa and the United States, Australia, Canada, China, Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, Uzbekistan, Papua New Guinea.


South Africa has a very deep gold mines, and up to a depth of some 3 km. The gold price has risen sharply in the seventies of the twentieth century, which revived the gold industry in South Africa, and encouraged the opening of old mines production again after that became economically feasible. And centers of the gold industry in South Africa are: the Witwatersrand, and the Far West Rand and Orange Free State. The gold mines of the Witwatersrand in the Transvaal Province, the richest gold mines in the world.


It is important gold sites in Russia, those in eastern Siberia. In the United States has been the gold mines named Mother States, California, the source of most of the gold, but today is deemed Nevada at the forefront of states in the production of gold. States and other leading producer of gold: California, Montana, South Dakota and Utah. In Canada, Ontario, is deemed the largest source of gold. The British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, and Quebec, also deemed the important regions for the production of gold.


Comes two-thirds of the gold produced in Australia from Western Australia, almost the richest gold mines in the district near the Golden Mile of Kalgoorlie. In the north-west of Kdston Townsville, Queensland, Australia's largest gold mines.


In the first years of the beginning of the twentieth century, the Philippines has grown rapidly as a producer of gold; where there are several large mines in the north of Luzon.