Top Gold Mining Countries. Colorado based newmont is the worlds biggest gold miner producing just over 58 million ounces of the metal in 2020. They are strongly represented in australia and north.
Barrick gold corporation is the largest gold mining company in the world although its status is far from assured going forward. It retained its top spot among the worlds largest gold mining companies despite an almost 9 year on. The top 10 rankings saw a big shift in 2019 russia took the lead over australia to claim second indonesia fell off the list and brazil joined the ranks as the tenth largest producer.
Here are list of the top ten gold producing countries in the world.
The other major gold mining countries include ghana 140 metric tonnes indonesia 130 metric tonnes peru 120 metric tonnes ghana 140 metric tonnes mexico 100 metric tonnes kazakhstan 100 metric tonnes uzbekistan 90 metric tonnes south africa 90 metric tonnes and brazil 80 metric tonnes. All data is from the world gold council. The worlds largest gold mine the grasberg mine in papua indonesia. It retained its top spot among the worlds largest gold mining companies despite an almost 9 year on.