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  1. Gold mining - Wikipedia

    • Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. The expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface has led to more complex extraction processes such as pit mining and gold cyanidation. In the 20th and 21st centuries, most volume of mining … See more

    History

    The exact date that humans first began to mine gold is unknown, but some of the oldest known gold artifacts were … See more

    Statistics

    World gold production was 3,612 tonnes in 2022. As of 2020 , the world's largest gold producer was China with 368.3 tonnes of gold mined in that year. The second-largest producer of gold was Russia where 331.1 tonnes wa… See more

    Methods

    Hard rock mining extracts gold encased in rock, rather than fragments in loose sediment, and produces most of the world's gold. Sometimes open-pit mining is used, such as at the Fort Knox Mine in central Alaska. … See more

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