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Fort Knox Gold Mine
The Fort Knox Gold Mine is an open pit gold mine in the Fairbanks mining district of Alaska. Mining and exploration properties are located within the Fairbanks mining district, a northeast trending belt of lode and placer gold deposits that comprise one of the largest gold producing areas in the state of Alaska.The land that the Fort Knox mine sits on was originally staked in 1913 with no mining taking place. There was no activity in the area (typically placer mining takes place in the area), until the area was restaked in 1980 by two prospectors, and leased to various mining companies.
Mining Method: open pit
Commodity: Gold, Silver
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): To 2011 if no new reserve found
Reserves/Resources: 1.1moz @1.3g/t Au
38 moz @44g/t Ag
Products: 231 koz Au (2009)
105t Ag (2008)
Owner: Kinross
country/region: UNITED STATES
Continent: North America
| Golden Sunlight mine
The Golden Sunlight mine is an open pit gold mine in Jefferson County, Montana, approximately 25 mi (40 km) east of Butte, Montana. The mine sits at an elevation of 6,000 ft (1,829 m) on the Bull Mountain range. The mine has been in operation since 1975. It is mined by conventional open-pit methods.
Mining Method: open pit
Commodity: Gold
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): To 2015
Reserves/Resources: 8.04 Mt at 1.87 g/t gold for 487 koz (Dec 31, 2011, proven and probable reserves)
Products: 62 koz gold (2011).
Owner: Barrick Gold Corp. - 100%
country/region: UNITED STATES
Continent: North America
| Goldstrike Mine
Goldstrike is a gold mine in North Eastern Nevada, Lynn District, Eureka County. It is located on the Carlin Trend where several other mines are found. Barrick Gold started mining Goldstrike in 1986. It is the largest gold mine in North America.The Goldstrike operations consist of the Betze-Post open pit mine and the Meikle and Rodeo underground mines which are located just north of the Betze-Post pit, along the same mineralized trend.
Mining Method: open pit
Commodity: Gold
Reserves/Resources: Gold, 12.6m oz total (2010, proven and probable reserves)
Products: Gold, 1.24m oz in 2010
Owner: Barrick Gold Corp. - 100%
country/region: UNITED STATES
Continent: North America
| hollister gold mine
The Hollister gold project is located in Elko County, Nevada, USA.The property is located along the Carlin structural trend and lies midway between the Ken Snyder Mine and the Goldstrike Mine.Hollister is goinfng to be an underground gold mining operation that over the 8 years LOM will mine 1,048,900 stope tons and will recover 906,900 equivalent Au oz.
Mining Method: underground
Commodity: Gold, Silver
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): 9
Reserves/Resources: Proven & Probable reserves were estimated at 951,546t at 27.08 g/t gold and 162.85g/t silver for 1.74Moz gold equivalent
Products: 131 Koz per year
Owner: Great Basin Gold (100%); Newmont Mining (5% NSR)
country/region: UNITED STATES
Continent: North America
| hycroft mine
Hycroft mine is located 87 km (56 miles) west of Winnemucca in Humboldt and Pershing Counties, Nevada, USA. Initial exploratory drilling that targeted copper and sulphur mineralization was conducted in 1974. Homestake drilled it again in early 1980s and discovered shallow oxide gold mineralization. A small scale gold oxide heap leach mining operation started in 1983.Hycroft is a conventional open pit mining operation that treats the oxide ore through heap leach methods and recovers the gold by using a Merrill Crowe method.
Mining Method: open pit
Commodity: Gold, Silver
Estimated Mine Life(yrs): To 2025 mining (2030 processing)
Reserves/Resources: Gold - 12.7 Moz (proven & probable; Dec 31, 2011),Silver - 481.9 Moz
Products: Gold - 104 Koz (2011) Silver - 480 Koz
Owner: Allied Nevada Gold Corp. - 100%
country/region: UNITED STATES
Continent: North America
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