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  2. Gold mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    US annual gold production (1840–2012) In the United States, gold mining has taken place continually since the discovery of gold at the Reed farm in North Carolina in 1799. The first documented occurrence of gold was in Virginia in 1782. [1] Some minor gold production took place in North Carolina as early as 1793, but created no excitement.

  3. Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine - Wikipedia

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    The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine, formerly and historically the Cresson Mine, is an active gold mine located near the town of Victor, in the Cripple Creek mining district in the US state of Colorado. The richest gold mine in Colorado history, [1] it is the only remaining significant producer of gold in the state, and produced 322,000 troy ...

  4. Homestake Mining Company - Wikipedia

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    Homestake Mining Company. Homestake Mining Company was one of the largest gold mining businesses in the United States and the owner of the Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota. Founded in 1877, it was acquired by Barrick Gold in December 2001. Homestake was the longest-listed stock in the history of the New York Stock Exchange.

  5. List of active gold mines in Nevada - Wikipedia

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    In 2020 mining overall contributed $9.5 billion to the state's economy, $8.4 billion from gold and silver mining (all silver produced in Nevada is as a by-product from gold mining). Gold production from Nevada was higher than any other U.S. state, 4,632,690 troy ounces (144,090 kg) in 2020 (a decrease of 4.8% on 2019), accounting for 76% of ...

  6. Gold mining - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Gold mining in Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Gold mining in Nevada, a state of the United States, is a major industry, and one of the largest sources of gold in the world. In 2018 Nevada produced 5,581,160 troy ounces (173.6 tonnes), representing 78% of US gold and 5.0% of the world's production. [1][2][3] Total gold production recorded from Nevada from 1835 to 2017 totals 205,931,000 ...

  8. List of gold mines in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This list of gold mines in the United States is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.

  9. Largest gold companies - Wikipedia

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    These companies are big players in the Canadian industry which ranks 7th globally [56] but rely mostly on assets in foreign countries (Barrick Gold alone produced 209.79 tonnes of gold in 2009, [57] Canada produced 100 tonnes). In fact 75% of the world's mining companies are headquartered in Canada. [58]

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