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Agnew Mine

Agnew Mine is an underground gold mine in Western Australia owned by Gold Fields, 23 km west of Leinster, producing 245.3 koz of gold in 2025.

Ahafo North mine

Ahafo North is an open-pit gold mine in Ghana's Ahafo Region, operated by Newmont, with first gold poured in 2025 and commercial production declared that year.

Ahafo South mine

Ahafo South is a large gold mine in Ghana's Ahafo region, near Kenyase and operated by Newmont Ghana Gold Limited, with commercial production since 2006.

Akyem Gold Mine

The Akyem Gold Mine is a large open-pit gold mine in Ghana's Eastern Region, one of the country's largest, sold by Newmont to Zijin Mining in 2025.

Amaruq

Amaruq is a gold mine in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut, Canada, owned by Agnico Eagle, whose open pit and underground operations supply ore to the nearby Meadowbank mill.

Blagodatnoye

Blagodatnoye is a large open-pit gold mine in the Severo-Yeniseisk district of Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia, operated by PJSC Polyus. Commissioned in July 2010, it is Polyus' third largest mine.

Boddington Gold Mine

The Boddington Gold Mine is a large open-pit gold and copper mine near Boddington, Western Australia, operated by Newmont and one of Australia's largest gold producers.

Borden Mine (Ontario)

Borden Mine is an underground gold mine near Chapleau in northern Ontario, Canada, which reached commercial production in October 2019 as Canada's first underground mine mostly powered by battery-electric vehicles.

Brucejack Mine

The Brucejack Mine is an underground gold-silver mine 65 km north of Stewart in northwest British Columbia, Canada, owned by Newmont and producing since 2017.

Cadia Mine

Cadia Mine, also known as Cadia Valley Operations, is a large gold and copper mine near Orange in New South Wales, Australia, owned by Newmont Corporation since 2023.

Carbon Leader Reef

The Carbon Leader Reef is a gold- and uranium-bearing conglomerate horizon in the Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa, identified in 1932 and named for its carbon seam.

Casa Berardi Gold Mine

The Casa Berardi Gold Mine is a gold mine in the Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec, first opened in 1988 and owned by Orezone Gold Corporation since 2026.

Cerro Negro mine

Cerro Negro is a high-grade underground gold mine in Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina, owned and operated by Newmont Corporation, with reserves of 3.0 million ounces of gold.

Cerro Pelón mine

Cerro Pelón is a satellite open-pit gold mine in Sonora, Mexico, operated by Alamos Gold from 2019 to 2021 and producing about 127,000 ounces of gold.

Côté Gold Mine

The Côté Gold Mine is a large open-pit gold mine in northeastern Ontario, Canada, jointly owned by IAMGOLD and Sumitomo Metal Mining, which poured its first gold in 2024.

Curraghinalt

Curraghinalt is a gold, silver, and copper deposit in west Tyrone, Northern Ireland, where Dalradian Gold proposes an underground mine that could produce 3.5 million ounces of gold.

Detour Lake

Detour Lake is a large open-pit gold mine in Cochrane District, northeastern Ontario, near the Quebec border. Operated by Agnico Eagle, it is the largest gold-producing mine in Canada.

El Victor

El Victor is a gold deposit and former open pit in the Mulatos District of Sonora, Mexico, operated by Alamos Gold and mined until mid-2021.

Éléonore

Éléonore is an underground gold mine in Eeyou Istchee Baie-James, northern Quebec, which opened in 2014 and has been operated since 2025 by Dhilmar Ltd.

Éléonore Mine

The Éléonore Mine is an underground gold mine in the James Bay region of northern Quebec, on the Roberto deposit, in production since 2015 under Goldcorp.

Gold Quarry Mine

The Gold Quarry Mine is a large open-pit gold mine about seven miles north of Carlin in Eureka County, Nevada, operated by Nevada Gold Mines as part of the Carlin Complex.

Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie

The Golden Mile is a goldfield near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, about 600 km east of Perth, one of the richest gold deposits ever worked, now mined as the Super Pit.

Goldstrike mine

Goldstrike mine is a large gold mining complex on the northern Carlin Trend in Eureka and Elko Counties, Nevada, operated by Nevada Gold Mines and North America's largest producing gold mine.

Greenstone Gold Mine

Greenstone Gold Mine is an open-pit gold mine near Geraldton, Ontario, wholly owned by Equinox Gold, on the historic Hardrock deposit. First gold poured in May 2024.

Hemlo Gold Mine

The Hemlo Gold Mine is a gold mine 35 km east of Marathon, Ontario, one of Canada's largest lode gold deposits, producing about 25 million ounces of gold.

Hishikari Mine

Hishikari Mine (菱刈鉱山) is an underground gold mine in Isa, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, owned by Sumitomo Metal Mining. Discovered in 1981, it is Japan's only commercial-scale metal mine.

Hondol

Hondol (Hondolen), village in Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County, Romania, in the Metaliferi Mountains; Roman-era gold mine (RAN 89286.03) and the Coranda-Hondol Au-Ag deposit, about 4.8 Moz at 1.4 g/t Au, mined until 2006.

Hope Bay

Hope Bay is a gold mining and exploration property in the Kitikmeot region of mainland Nunavut, Canada, owned by Agnico Eagle, which approved a construction decision in May 2026.

Kittilä mine

Kittilä mine (Kittilän kaivos) is an underground gold mine in Lapland, northern Finland, operated by Agnico Eagle since 2009 and the largest primary gold mine in Europe.

Kuranakh

Kuranakh (Куранах) is a gold mining district in the Aldan District of Yakutia, Russia, comprising eleven gold deposits and a large buried placer worked since the 1920s.