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# Precious Metals Mining

the hub for precious metals mining

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- [World Gold Council publishes 2022 figures](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/world-gold-council-published-2022-figures/) - The World Gold Council has published its gold production figures for 2022. These figures have been posted up on the PMM website as of today. To access the data on their gold hub site go to https://www.gold.org/goldhub/data
- [Sibanye Stillwater to cut PGM output by up to 60,000 oz per year](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/sibanye-stillwater-to-cut-pgm-output-by-up-to-60000-oz-per-year/) - Published in https://www.miningmx.com/news/platinum/55826-sibanye-stillwater-to-cut-pgm-output-by-up-to-60000-oz-year/

## Pages

- [Precious Metals Mining](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/) - the hub for precious metals mining
- [United States Geological Survey](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/pmm-vs-usgs-gold/) - United States Geological Survey (USGS) Reporting The United States Geological Survey country production data for gold and silver is summarised below.
- [Silver Institute (SI)](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/pmm-vs-si-silver/) - Silver Institute Reporting Silver Institute figures are updated to 2023.
- [Reporting Resources](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/reporting-resources/) - Accessible Reporting Reporting resources provided by the following organisations are accessible on the internet. EITI Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) provides a global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mineral resources SEDAR System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) provides a system used for electronically filing most quoted company related information
- [Privacy Policy](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/privacy-policy/) - Who we are Our website address is: http://preciousmetalsmining.com. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Media If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded
- [Mine Ownership](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/mine-ownership/) - Mine Ownership Models Broadly, mine ownership of precious metals production, over the last five years, can be split between: large scale mining (LSM) and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Mine Ownership Type A more refined lens on precious metals mine ownership is can be defined by type, size or focus: by ownership type: public, private, state-owned enterprises, and artisanal
- [Definitions](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/definitions/) - Definitions used on the website are set out on this page. These definitions include the three key elements used to describe and identify facilities: world geography, mine ownership and mine infrastructure. The importance of these elements is reflected by their use as major menu items. World Geography World Size To ensure that PMM has identified
- [List of Countries](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/list-of-pus/) - List of Political Units by Continent The list of 259 political units (countries and external territories) can easily be downloaded into Excel. Country size is measured in square kilometres (km2).
- [Precious Metals Juniors Portal](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/juniors-portal/) - What are Precious Metals Juniors? Precious Metals Juniors portal is the section of the site for discovering about primarily, listed, junior exploration and development companies around the world. Junior precious metals mining companies are exclusively involved in exploration or development of precious metals deposits. Majors and Intermediates may have their own exploration and development programs
- [Country GEO Ranking and Top 40](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/country-geo-ranking/) - Country GEO Ranking Country gold equivalent ounce (GEO) ranking shows the combined production figures for all countries (and external territories), over the last five years, from largest to smallest. To understand how GEO's are calculated, refer here. The trend lines indicate that most of the top twenty producers have seen flat or declining production, except
- [Nation State Mine Production Reporting](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/nation-state-reporting/) - Types of Reporting Nation state (countries and external territories) mine production reporting, including precious metals can typically be found in the following agencies, which most countries have, either at a federal and/or a state level: a Central Bank a Geological Survey a Government Ministry of Mining, and a Bureau of Statistics The hyperlinks in the
- [Production Ranking by Country](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/rank-by-country/) - Country ranking sets out gold and silver production figures ranked, from largest to smallest for 2024, with a change between 2023 and 2024 also highlighted. Estimates (forecast) for 2024 production figures are also shown under "2024(f)". Broader global analyses can be found in the Data Analysis section. Gold Production China, the Russian Federation and Australia
- [Regions of the World](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/un-regions/) - Different Regional Views of the World Continents can be broken into regions of the world, depending on your point of view and location in the world. The UN and the World Bank both have a global perspective. These so-called "geoschemes", are used for statistical analysis, and form a useful framework for presenting information about the
- [World Geography](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/7b3c2-homepage/geography/) - Precious Metals World Precious metals mined figures are summarised, by continent and also broken down by geographical regions and countries. Global figures are relatively consistent, year on year, showing Africa as the largest gold producing continent at about 25 million ounces. Each year, either North America (mostly Mexico) or South America (largely Peru) produce the
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- [About this site](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/about-this-site/) - Overview This site is dedicated to providing accurate, consistent, comprehensive and up to date information about the contemporary precious metals mining industry (gold and silver, but not PGM's). While the figures published on this site are constantly under review, the site is updated, at most, twice a year. In exceptional circumstances, where material errors and
- [Public Company GEO Ranking](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/public-company-geo-ranking/) - Listed Company GEO Ranking Company Gold Equivalent Ounces (GEO) ranking lists all public companies based on their combined production (of gold and silver in terms of gold) in the last five years, from largest to smallest. The definition for GEO is detailed here.
- [Gold Mine Ranking](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/gold-rank-by-mine-3-year/) - Gold Production Ranking by Mine Gold mine ranking identifies the largest gold producing mines (in ounces), over the last five years, and ranks them from largest to smallest. This excludes consideration of ASM gold production. The table below can easily be downloaded or exported. The biggest gold mines in the world include: Grasberg (Indonesia), Muruntau
- [Mine Infrastructure](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/infrastructure/) - Precious Metal Production by Mine Type Mine infrastructure shows which types of mine produce gold and silver, over the last five years. Mines producing precious metals have been grouped into one of the following categories: Gold (producing gold only, no silver) Gold/Silver (producing gold with a silver by-product or vice versa) Silver, designated |Ag| (producing
- [ASGM in Numbers](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/asm-in-numbers/) - Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Miners (AGSM) ASGM in numbers is all about understanding the number of artisanal and small-scale gold miners, working globally. The challenge is complicated as unlike large scale mining (LSM) artisanal and small-scale mining is largely undocumented. In addition, there is no standard around terms and definitions. Finally, some zones miners are
- [Where Precious Metals Juniors Are Operating](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/junior-operations/) - Juniors operate all over the world, from Alaska to Australia. The table below details where publicly listed Juniors are operating. The table is sorted by Country, then Region, starting with Greenland, moving down North America to South America, moving across the Atlantic to Africa and Europe (excl. Russia). Followed by Russia, Asia (excl. China), China
- [Listed Junior Precious Metals Mining Companies](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/listed-juniors/) - Listing Junior Precious Metals Explorers by Stock Exchange Listed junior mining exploration companies identifies all precious metals mining enterprises which are quoted on a recognised stock exchange. The listing is regularly updated to add new listings, remove de-listings and reflect any other transactions, such as mergers, takeovers and reverse takeovers etc. Listings are split into
- [List of Public Precious Metals Mining Companies](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/list-of-public-mining-companies/) - Publicly Quoted Precious Metals Companies Publicly quoted precious metals mining companies are listed by size (Major, Intermediate, Junior) by stock exchange. This listing does not include Royalty companies which can be found here. Project Generators are included as Juniors. All of the data tables shown below can be easily exported into Excel, either by using
- [Data Analysis and Validation](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/data-validation/) - Data analysis and validation describes the results produced from the Precious Metals Mining model in more detail. Data Analysis Data Analysis sets out the Precious Metals Mining data model and the associated reporting. Data Validation Data Validation shows how Precious Metals Mining reporting compares with reporting out of acknowledged third party sources. Third party sources
- [Public Ownership](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/pubic-ownership/) - Stock Exchange Public ownership means that private individuals can share in the ownership of an enterprise, whose shares are quoted on a recognised stock exchange. Publicly owned precious metals enterprises are identified with a single (primary) stock exchange, in order to avoid double counting. The primary exchange is chosen as either: the largest mining exchange
- [British Geological Survey (BGS)](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/pmm-vs-bgs-gold/) - British Geological Survey Reporting The British Geological Survey publishes updated country production data for gold and silver around April each year. World Mineral Statistics contains data updated to 2022.
- [World Gold Council (WGC)](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/pmm-vs-wgc/) - World Gold Council Reporting WGC figures are updated to 2023.
- [Data Validation](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/data-validation-2/) - What is Data Validation Data validation is performed by cross referencing reports produced by PMM against reports produced by other global reporting bodies. These other reporting bodies include: peak bodies, geological survey organisations, state and national government agencies, intergovernmental organisations (IGO), non-governmental organisations (NGO), royalty companies and most importantly the mining companies themselves. Comparisons require
- [Global Level Production Analysis](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/global-level-analysis/) - Overview Global level production analysis looks at the whole data cube from the perspective of the production of gold and silver. Gold China, Russia and Australia are in the top tier of countries producing mined gold. Between 2020 and 2024, China, Russia and Australia have each consistently produced above nine million ounces (300,000 kgs) of
- [Largest Mines by Continent](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/largest-mines-by-continent/) - Ten Largest Gold Mines by Continent The largest mines by continent shows the largest gold mines for each of the last five years, starting with the forecast for 2024 and working backwards to 2020. The tables can easily be downloaded or exported. Mines are often made up of multiple deposits, or indeed, multiple mines. The
- [Silver Mine Ranking](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/silver-rank-by-mine-3-year/) - Silver Production Ranked by Mine Silver mine ranking identifies the largest silver producing mines (in ounces), over the last five years, and ranks them from largest to smallest. The table below can be downloaded or exported into Excel. The biggest silver producing mines in the world include: Rudna Hub (Poland), Penasquito, San Julian & Fresnillo (Mexico),
- [Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM)](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/artisanal-and-small-scale-mining-asm/) - The nature of artisanal and small scale mining of precious metals differs from region to region around the world. Artisanal means traditional, often long practised, manual mining. Small scale means that mechanical or semi-mechanical machinery is being used. Both small scale or artisanal miners often organise into cooperatives or similar community based enterprises. The table
- [Non Public Ownership](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/non-public-ownership/) - Non public ownership includes all enterprises which cannot be owned by the public, in other words: state owned and privately owned enterprises. Disclosure standards vary, but typically non public enterprises have a lower level of transparency than most public companies on an international stock exchange. State Owned Enterprises State Ownership in mining is reflected a
- [The Language of Gold and Silver](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/the-language-of-gold-and-silver/) - The words for "gold" and "silver" in a range of languages spoken around the world. [table id=10 /] For a full list, refer to https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/
- [Geological Survey Reporting](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/geological-survey-data/) - Geological survey reporting is the systematic investigation of the geology beneath a given piece of ground for the purpose of creating a geological map or model. Almost all countries in the world have an arm of government, which performs this function. Refer to Geology Page for a full listing of nations which try to maintain
- [GEO Ranking](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/geo-ranking/) - What are Gold Equivalent Ounces Gold Equivalent Ounces (GEO) is a measure used by many companies, which produce both gold and other metals including silver. The idea is to create an equal footing across a miner's portfolio so investors can more easily evaluate overall production in terms of "gold equivalent production". Calculating GEO To calculate
- [Royalty Companies](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/royalty-companies/) - What is a Royalty Company Royalty companies provide specialised finance that helps to fund exploration projects and production operations. Royalty companies are an excellent source of third party validation of precious metals production numbers, but they are not included in the production totals - these are associated with the original mining company. Royalty companies can
- [List of Stock Exchanges](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/stock-exchange-data/) - Types of Stock Exchanges The list of stock exchanges, which have precious metals mining companies includes international stock exchanges and domestic stock exchanges. International stock exchanges have higher governance standards, including transparency and reporting requirements. International Stock Exchanges The following international stock exchanges have at least one listed precious metals mining companies. ASX Australian Stock
- [Peak Body Reporting](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/peak-bodies/) - Global peak bodies are associations set up to represent specific industries. Peak body reporting is the reporting provided by these organisations. World Gold Council The World Gold Council (WGC) provides annual a reporting via their “Gold Hub” data portal, which sets out gold production, consumption and usage figures. China is one of the largest gold
- [Data Analysis](https://preciousmetalsmining.com/analysis/) - Data Cube Structure Data analysis considers the three data elements in precious metals mining: world geography, mine ownership and mine infrastructure as the three sides of a data cube. Using these axes allows specific areas of interest to be isolated and inspected. Data Cube Measures There are two measures, these are the "units of measure"
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