World Gold Reserves by country
World Gold Reserves by country:
As of 2024, the countries with the largest gold reserves are:
United States
With 8,133.46 tonnes of gold, the US has the world's largest gold reserves. The US stores its gold in secure facilities like Fort Knox, the Denver Mint, and the West Point Bullion Depository.
Germany
With 3,351.53 tonnes of gold, Germany has the second-largest gold reserves. Most of Germany's gold is stored in Frankfurt, with some also held in New York and London.
Italy
With 2,451.84 tonnes of gold, Italy has the third-largest gold reserves.
France
With 2,436.97 tonnes of gold, France has the fourth-largest gold reserves.
Russia
With 2,335.85 tonnes of gold, Russia has the fifth-largest gold reserves.
China
With 2,264.32 tonnes of gold, China has the sixth-largest gold reserves.
Japan
With 845.97 tonnes of gold, Japan has the seventh-largest gold reserves.
India
With 840.76 tonnes of gold, India has the eighth-largest gold reserves.
Netherlands
With 612.45 tonnes of gold, the Netherlands has the ninth-largest gold reserves.
Turkey
With 584.93 tonnes of gold, Turkey has the tenth-largest gold reserves.
Gold processing
Gold processing involves a series of methods to extract gold from ore, including:
- Flotation
A common method for processing gold-bearing sulfide ores and rock gold ores. Flotation can concentrate gold into sulfide minerals and is relatively inexpensive.
- Amalgamation
A method for free-milling gold ores that involves mixing crushed ore with mercury to form an amalgam. The gold is then recovered by heating the amalgam to vaporize the mercury.
- Cyanidation
A main gold processing method that can be divided into agitation cyanide leaching and percolation cyanide leaching.
- Carbon-in-pulp (CIP)
An extraction technique for recovering gold that has been liberated into a cyanide solution.
- Gravity separation
A method used to wash gold-bearing heavy metal sulfide concentrate after the amalgamation method is used to recover coarse gold.
- Heap leaching
A low-cost method that can be put into production quickly. It can be adopted after the ore is crushed to a certain size