Thu Jul 26, 2012: NRH Research - 2012 World Gold Deposit Ranking

Following on the success of last year's report we have decided to make the ranking of the world's gold deposits an annual endeavor highlighting trends in future mine supply, depletion, discoveries, and in-situ grades.

This year we implemented some important changes to our methodology leading to a higher quality database that is more comprehensive:

A) Introduction of Grade and Tonnage in grams per tonne providing a more qualitative analysis of each respective deposit.
B) The inclusion of Government owned deposits such as Murantao and Sukhoi Log.
C) The inclusion of South African mines and deposits.
D) The inclusion of Australian listed companies as well as Polyus, Anglogold Ashanti and Newcrest, companies that are harder to compile due to the opacity of their mineral resource disclosure.


2012 Result Summary

From an initial list of 1,896 companies we were able to identify 212 entities (Public, Private and Government Sponsored Corporations) that own 439 gold deposits hosting over 1,000,000 ounces in all categories representing a total of 3,015,542,164 ounces of gold. The Full Report is available below.