After briefly topped its highest price in September 2011 was U.S. $ 1,900 per ounce , the gold price this time is still not stable and tend to move down . Most investors still feel worried because gold was deemed not safe enough to be used as investment assets .
Such as the launch of Gold Investing News , gold is a scarce commodity . Total global gold are varied , but the most recent data compiled by Thomson Reuters said gold reserves in the world today still left as much as 171 300 tons .
Gold mines currently scattered in various countries . Of many of the mining areas , the following three mines in the world's largest gold producer :
1 . Grasberg ( Freeport ) in Indonesia
Most experts consider the Freeport - McMoRan Copper & Gold as the largest mine in the world . Not only that , the copper mine became the number one in the world . Grasberg is located in Papua , Indonesia.
Open - pit operation in the Mining began in 1990 and the company expects to continue its operations until 2016 . This is because at the end of last year , the open - pit area Garsberg just experienced improvements thereon and gold reserves estimated at 6.5 million ounces .
The mine is expected to produce 1.25 million ounces of gold this year . However, recent production setbacks only able to make Freeport produces 80 % of the total estimated gold . The mine had collapsed on May 14, 2013 . The accident forced the Freeport stop operations and production is still not resumed until July 9.
Even so , there are still many expansion projects are being developed in the area of energy Grasberg minerals . According to the company's annual report of 2012, the project included the development of large-scale land , underground mine with high quality ore .
2 . Mine Yanacocha Mine in Peru
The world 's second largest gold mine is located in the Andes in Peru . Yanacocha itself is known as the largest gold mine in Latin America .
Since opening in 1993 , there are three active mining areas . Since its construction , the mine has produced over 26 million ounces of gold .
Yanancocha owned and operated gold producer based in Colorado , Newmont Mining . The company holds 51.35 % for the remainder of the property and claimed by Compania de Minas Buenaventura .
In 2012 , Yanacocha recorded producing 1.3 million ounces of gold . Commencing on December 31, 2012 , its assets consisted of 3 million ounces of gold reserves . The land mine is a joint venture with Newmont Conga Project in Peru . Both are known as Minera Yanacocha .
Area of the mine had received a number of protests from residents demanding Peru Conga project is stopped . The demands following the news that Newmont will dry three lakes in the region Cajamarca .
3 . Goldstrike mine in Nevada
Goldstrike mine is located in the Carlin Trend in Nevada and operated Barrick Gold . The Goldstrike Mining began in 1987 . The location consists of a compilation of open land mines and underground mines Betze Rodeo .
In 2012 , this mine produced 1.17 million ounces of gold at a price of U.S. $ 541 per ounce . Year in , Barrick could predict produces about 0.87 million to 0.94 million ounces of gold . Meanwhile , as quoted from the official website of Barrick , until the end of 2012 , gold reserves Goldstrik known to reach 12.3 million ounces .
In late June, the company announced it will conduct layoffs in 55 workers in Nevada and Utah . This is a result of low gold prices , higher operating costs and unstable stock prices .
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