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| TABLE 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| LEADING GOLD-PRODUCING MINES IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2010, IN ORDER OF OUTPUT1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Quantity | |||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Mine | County and State | Majority owner | (kilograms) | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Goldstrike2 | Elko and Eureka, NV | Barrick Gold Corp. | 36,300 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Cortez3 | Lander, NV | do. | 35,500 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Eastern Nevada Operations4 | Eureka, NV | Newmont Mining Corp. | 29,100 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Bingham Canyon5 | Salt Lake, UT | Kennecott Utah Copper Corp.6 | 14,500 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Twin Creeks | Humboldt, NV | Newmont Mining Corp. | 14,100 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Pogo | Southeast Fairbanks, AK | Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. | 11,900 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Smoky Valley Common Operation | Nye, NV | Kinross Gold Corp. | 11,200 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Fort Knox | Fairbanks North Star, AK | do. | 10,900 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Cresson | Teller, CO | AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. | 7,250 | |||||||||||||
| 10 | Phoenix | Lander, NV | Newmont Mining Corp. | 6,660 | |||||||||||||
| 11 | Kettle River-Buckhorn | Okanogan, WA | Kinross Gold Corp. | 6,180 | |||||||||||||
| 12 | Mesquite | Imperial, CA | New Gold Inc. | 5,260 | |||||||||||||
| 13 | Turquoise Ridge | Humboldt, NV | Barrick Gold Corp. | 5,140 | |||||||||||||
| 14 | Marigold- | - do. | Goldcorp Inc. | 4,250 | |||||||||||||
| 15 | Midas | Elko, NV | Newmont Mining Corp. | 3,960 | |||||||||||||
| 16 | Hollister | - do. | Great Basin Gold Ltd. | 3,270 | |||||||||||||
| 17 | Hycroft- | Humboldt and Pershing, NV | Allied Nevada Gold Corp. | 3,190 | |||||||||||||
| 18 | Ruby Hill | Eureka, NV | Barrick Gold Corp. | 2,530 | |||||||||||||
| 19 | Storm | Elko, NV | do. | 2,320 | |||||||||||||
| 20 | Wharf | Lawrence, SD | Wharf Resources (USA) Inc.7 | 2,280 | |||||||||||||
| 21 | Robinson- | White Pine, NV | Quadra Mining Ltd. | 2,270 | |||||||||||||
| 22 | Greens Creek | Juneau, AK | Hecla Mining Co. | 2,140 | |||||||||||||
| 23 | Jerritt Canyon | Elko, NV | Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp. | 2,030 | |||||||||||||
| 24 | Bald Mountain | White Pine, NV | Barrick Gold Corp. | 1,800 | |||||||||||||
| 25 | Florida Canyon | Pershing, NV | Jipangu Inc. | 1,710 | |||||||||||||
| 26 | Kensington | Juneau, AK | Coeur d-Alene Mines Corp. | 1,340 | |||||||||||||
| 27 | Briggs | Inyo, CA | Atna Resources Ltd. | 784 | |||||||||||||
| 28 | Denton-Rawhide- | Mineral, NV | Rawhide Acquisition Holdings8 | 627 | |||||||||||||
| 29 | Rochester | Pershing, NV | Coeur d-Alene Mines Corp. | 300 | |||||||||||||
| (9) | Mission Complex | Pima, AZ | ASARCO LLC10 | NA | |||||||||||||
| do. Ditto. NA Not available. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; the mines on this list accounted for more than 99% of U.S. mine production in 2010. | |||||||||||||||||
| 2Formerly listed as Betze-Post Mine. | |||||||||||||||||
| 3Includes Cortez Hills and Cortez Pipeline Mines. | |||||||||||||||||
| 4Includes Carlin East, Deep Post, Gold Quarry, and Pete Mines. | |||||||||||||||||
| 5Quantity refers to total quantity of gold produced in concentrates. | |||||||||||||||||
| 6Wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto plc. | |||||||||||||||||
| 7Wholly owned subsidiary of Goldcorp Inc. | |||||||||||||||||
| 8Rawhide Acquisition Holdings purchased 100% interest from Rio Tinto plc. on June 25, 2010. | |||||||||||||||||
| 9Mine is ranked in the top 30 in the United States in 2010; however, public data were not available. The rank order is not shown | |||||||||||||||||
| to avoid disclosing company proprietary data. | |||||||||||||||||
| 10Wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. | |||||||||||||||||
| Sources: Company annual reports, company 10-K reports submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, company news- | |||||||||||||||||
| releases, and Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. | |||||||||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program
See also: Mineral commodity prices
