and Chile round out the top-five gold mines in the world. The Carlin Trend and Cortez gold mines, both in Nevada, are ranked sixth and 10 th worldwide. Historically, the world has mined 233,000 ...

Some 1,350 feet deep and two miles across at its widest point, the Cortez open-pit gold mine outside Elko, Nev., looks like an asteroid crater—the largest hole in the ground you’ve ever seen. Standing ...