Top Golg Mining Country lists

Gold is the most malleable and ductile metal; a single gram can be beaten into a sheet of one square meter, or an ounce into 300 square feet. Gold leaf can be beaten thin enough to become translucent. The transmitted light appears greenish blue, because gold strongly reflects yellow and red.

Gold readily forms alloys with many other metals. These alloys can be produced to increase the hardness or to create exotic colors (see below). Gold is a good conductor of heat and electricity, and is not affected by air and most reagents. Heat, moisture, oxygen, and most corrosive agents have very little chemical effect on gold, making it well-suited for use in coins and jewelry; conversely, halogens will chemically alter gold, and aqua regia dissolves it via formation of the chloraurate ion.


World
2,310,000


1
South Africa

272,128


2
China
247,200


3
Australia

247,000


4
United States
242,000


5
Peru

203,268


6
Russia
159,340


7
Canada

104,198


8
Indonesia
85,411


9
Uzbekistan

84,000


10
Ghana
66,205


11
Papua New Guinea

58,349


12
Mali
50,773


13
Argentina

44,131


14
Chile
42,100


15
Brazil

40,075


16
Tanzania
39,750


17
Philippines

36,098


18
Mexico
35,899


19
Mongolia

22,561


20
Guinea
16,336


21
Colombia

15,683


22
Venezuela
13,200


23
Zimbabwe

11,354


24
Kyrgyzstan
10,721


25
New Zealand

10,618


26
Suriname
10,426