single boom drill operators, and roof bolter operators represented the occupations with the highest noise exposures within gold mines. See also Sibanye Gold Gold extraction Gold rush Gold prospecting Ore genesis Peak gold Quartz reef mining Recreational gold mining List of gold nuggets by size Gold mining by country: Witwatersrand around Johannesburg, South Africa Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa Deepest mines on earth are the gold mines in South Africa Gold mining in Brazil Gold mining in Africa Gold mining in South Africa Gold mining in Australia Gold mining in the United States Gold mining in Alaska City of Gold in Canada Gold mining in China Gold mining in India Hatti Gold Mines Kolar Gold Fields Gold mining in Guyana Aurora gold mine Omai mine Toroparu mine Gold mining in Pakistan: Reko Diq Mine Saindak Copper Gold Project Welsh gold Sukari, Egypt Gold rushes: United States: Georgia Gold Rush (beginning 1828) California Gold Rush (1848–1855) Pike's Peak Gold Rush (1858–1860) Holcomb Valley gold rush (1860s) British Commonwealth: Australian gold rushes (1850s) Victorian Gold Rush (1851–1860s) Fraser Canyon Gold Rush (late 1850s), Canada Witwatersrand Gold Rush (1880s), South Africa Klondike Gold Rush (1896–1899), Canada Central Otago Gold Rush (1860s), New Zealand References Further reading Gudde, Erwin G. California Gold Camps: A Geographical and Historical Dictionary of Camps, Towns, and Localities Where Gold Was Found and Mined; Wayside Stations and Trading Centers (Univ of California Press, 1975). Hess, Frank L., C. W. Hayes, and W. Lindgren. "Gold mining in the Randsburg quadrangle, California." Contributions to Economic Geology: US Geological Survey Bulletin (1910): 23–47. Online Kelley, Robert L. "Forgotten Giant: The Hydraulic Gold Mining Industry In California." Pacific Historical Review 23.4 (1954): 343–356. Online Paul, Rodman Wilson, ed. The California Gold Discovery: Sources, Documents, Accounts, and Memoirs Relating to the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill (Talisman Press, 1967), Primary sources. Rohe, Randall E. "Hydraulicking in the American West: The development and diffusion of a mining technique." Montana: The Magazine of Western History (1985) 35#2 to: 18–35. Online Rohe, Randall. "Origins & Diffusion of Traditional Placer Mining in the West" Material Culture 18#3 (1986), pp. 127–166 Online White F. Miner with a Heart of Gold: biography of a mineral science and engineering educator. Friesen Press, Victoria. 2020. ISBN 978-1-5255-7765-9 (Hardcover), 978-1-5255-7766-6 (Paperback), 978-1-5255-7767-3 (eBook). External links Gold Ore Resources Status and Annual Production of Countries by Continent Economic geology de:Gold#Gewinnung