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Yanacocha mine

Yanacocha mine, Peru. Producing, open pit and underground, mining gold, silver.

Why Yanacocha is famous

Gold mine in northern Peru made up of open pits on leach pads: La Quinua, Yanacocha, Carachugo and Maqui Maqui complexes.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Epithermal vein (Creede type)

Yanacocha today

Where gold is mined todayWhere silver is mined todayMining in Peru

Where next

Deposit types

An example ofEpithermal vein (Creede type)Yanacocha belongs to the epithermal vein family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 Newmont Corporation (SEC)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  3. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Ball mills and SAG mills by photosmith2011, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Escondida Mine, Chile, NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); Pangkalpinang. Mijn 3b. Een reeks koelies bezig met het transporteeren van grond, Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).