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Bullion World | Volume 3 | Issue 5 | May 2023

Top 10 largest gold Another Barrick’s Turquoise Ridge gold was 10% higher compared with

mines in the US in mine is third. Gold production in 2021, primarily due to increases
in mill throughput and ounces
2022 of 459 koz was 15% lower
2022 than in 2021, primarily due to lower recovered from the heap leach pads.
Barrick’s Carlin is the largest gold throughput at the Sage autoclave Northern Star’s Pogo mine sits
operation in the US and one of the related to previously disclosed fifth with 243 koz of gold produced
largest in the world. Gold production unplanned maintenance events, in 2022. Gold production at Pogo
in 2022 of 1,571 koz was 5% higher partially offset by higher grades increased by 29% compared to 2021
y-o-y as the prior year was impacted processed. as the mine continued to operate
by the mechanical mill failure at at 1.3Mtpa, its recently expanded
Carlin’s Goldstrike roaster, which At Kinross’ Fort Knox mine, the nameplate capacity.
occurred in May 2021. fourth largest gold operation in the
US, 2022 production of 291 koz of The complete list is on the chart.
Barrick’s Cortez gold operation sits
second. Gold production in 2022 of
731 koz was 12% lower compared
to 2021. This was primarily driven
by lower leach and refractory ore
tonnes mined from both Crossroads
and Pipeline, partially offset by an
increase in grade from Cortez Hills
underground as well as increased
ore tonnes mined and processed
from the Goldrush development
project.
Source- Kitco.com, open source.

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