GOLD: Canadians own half of world’s 10 largest gold mines

The list of the world’s 10 largest gold mines is making the rounds. In 2015 they produced almost 10.6 million oz of the yellow metal or 329.6 tonnes of it (if imaging 330 tonnes of anything is possible). That was up from the 9.5 million oz in 2014. The best news is that Canadian companies own five of the 10 largest producers. See the table below for details. The world’s 10 largest gold mines

	Oz produced
Rank	2015	2014	Mine	Owner	Country
1	1,961,193	1,961,193	Muruntau	Government of Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan
2	1,359,975	1,247,447	Grasberg	Freeport McMoRan (90%), Government of Indonesia (9%)	Indonesia
3	1,054,543	903,435	Goldstrike	Barrick Gold	United States
4	999,887	903,435	Cortez	Barrick Gold	United States
5	954,876	1,109,199	Pueblo Viejo	Barrick Gold (60%), Goldcorp (40%)	Dominican Republic
6	919,510	970,951	uncesYanacocha	Newmont (51%), Minas Buenaventura (43%), International Finance Corp. (5%)	Peru
7	887,359	569,067	Carlin	Newmont	United States
8	861,639	569,067	Penasquinto	Goldcorp	Mexico
9	803,768	652,659	Lihir	Newcrest	Papua New Guinea
10	794,122	649,455	Boddington	Newmont	Australia