Who are the top ten gold mining companies in the world?

Answer 1

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.

NGDlover at notegolddiamond.blogspot.com

Answer 2

1. Newcrest

2. Bemax

3. Iluka

4. Coca Cola

5. General motors

6. Newscorp

7. Rio Tonto

8. the AFL

9. Facebook

10. Bhp boobies

Answer 3

Check out this link for a listing of the top 10 mining companies in the world:

http://www.bus-ex.com/article/mining-companies-worldwide