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World Production
== Uses==
== Uses==
Because gold is highly conductive and very resistant to [[oxidation]], it is vital in electronics. Gold plating is used on switch contacts, printed circuit boards, and device leads. There is enough gold in electronic devices to make it worthwhile to process discarded devices in order to reclaim the gold in them.
Because gold is highly conductive and very resistant to [[oxidation]], it is vital in electronics. Gold plating is used on switch contacts, printed circuit boards, and device leads. There is enough gold in electronic devices to make it worthwhile to process discarded devices in order to reclaim the gold in them.
==World Production (2010) <ref>http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf23.html</ref>==
{| class="wikitable"
! Rank
! Country
! Production (kg)
! Production (%)
|-
|1||[[China]]||align="right"|320,000||align="right"|13
|-
|2||[[United States]]||align="right"|223,000||align="right"|9
|-
|3||[[Australia]]||align="right"|222,000||align="right"|9
|-
|4||[[South Africa]]||align="right"|197,698||align="right"|8
|-
|5||[[Russian Federation]]||align="right"|190,693||align="right"|7
|-
|6||[[Peru]]||align="right"|182,391||align="right"|7
|-
|7||[[Indonesia]]||align="right"|130,000||align="right"|5
|-
|8||[[Canada]]||align="right"|97,367||align="right"|3
|-
|9||[[Uzbekistan]]||align="right"|90,000||align="right"|3
|-
|10||[[Ghana]]||align="right"|86,000||align="right"|3
|-
|11||[[Papua New Guinea]]||align="right"|66,000||align="right"|2
|-
|12||[[Brazil]]||align="right"|60,000||align="right"|2
|-
|13||[[Mexico]]||align="right"|51,393||align="right"|2
|-
|14||[[Colombia]]||align="right"|47,837||align="right"|1
|-
|15||[[Argentina]]||align="right"|47,000||align="right"|1
|-
|16||[[Mali]]||align="right"|42,000||align="right"|1
|-
|17||[[Chile]]||align="right"|40,834||align="right"|1
|-
|18||[[Tanzania United Republic Of]]||align="right"|40,000||align="right"|1
|-
|19||[[Philippines]]||align="right"|37,047||align="right"|1
|-
|20||[[Kazakhstan]]||align="right"|22,000||align="right"|0
|-
|21||[[Guinea]]||align="right"|18,083||align="right"|0
|-
|22||[[Kyrgyzstan]]||align="right"|16,950||align="right"|0
|-
|23||[[Burkina Faso]]||align="right"|13,500||align="right"|0
|-
|24||[[New Zealand]]||align="right"|13,442||align="right"|0
|-
|25||[[Suriname]]||align="right"|12,193||align="right"|0
|-
|26||[[Turkey]]||align="right"|12,000||align="right"|0
|-
|27||[[Venezuela]]||align="right"|10,500||align="right"|0
|-
|28||[[Mongolia]]||align="right"|9,803||align="right"|0
|-
|29||[[Guatemala]]||align="right"|8,485||align="right"|0
|-
|30||[[Guyana]]||align="right"|8,183||align="right"|0
|-
|31||[[Mauritania]]||align="right"|8,000||align="right"|0
|-
|32||[[Japan]]||align="right"|7,000||align="right"|0
|-
|33||[[Finland]]||align="right"|7,000||align="right"|0
|-
|34||[[Bolivia]]||align="right"|7,000||align="right"|0
|-
|35||[[Côte D'ivoire]]||align="right"|6,573||align="right"|0
|-
|36||[[Senegal]]||align="right"|5,600||align="right"|0
|-
|37||[[Saudi Arabia]]||align="right"|5,500||align="right"|0
|-
|38||[[Sweden]]||align="right"|5,000||align="right"|0
|-
|39||[[Lao People's Democratic Republic ]]||align="right"|5,000||align="right"|0
|-
|40||[[Zimbabwe]]||align="right"|4,200||align="right"|0
|}
Gold was one of the three [[Gifts of the Magi]], along with [[frankincense]] and [[myrrh]].<ref>Matthew 2:11 [http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Mat/Mat002.html#11]</ref>
Gold was one of the three [[Gifts of the Magi]], along with [[frankincense]] and [[myrrh]].<ref>Matthew 2:11 [http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Mat/Mat002.html#11]</ref>