{"id":150,"date":"2009-08-06T13:12:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T02:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/australia-could-become-the-worlds-second-largest-gold-producer-within-two-years\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T13:12:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T02:12:30","slug":"australia-could-become-the-worlds-second-largest-gold-producer-within-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/australia-could-become-the-worlds-second-largest-gold-producer-within-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia could become the world&#039;s second largest gold producer within two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia close to top of gold pile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2009\/08\/04\/2645984.htm?section=business\">Posted Tue Aug 4, 2009 6:00pm AEST<\/a><br \/>\nUpdated Tue Aug 4, 2009 6:29pm AEST<\/p>\n<p>A delegate at the Diggers and Dealers conference in Kalgoorlie says Australia is heading towards the position of second largest gold producer in the world. (Perth Mint)<\/p>\n<p>A mining analyst says Australia could become the world&#8217;s second largest gold producer within two years.<\/p>\n<p>The managing director of Surbiton Associates, Sandra Close, says high gold prices and a continued production decline in South Africa could see Australia move into second spot behind China within two years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Australia and the U-S sit somewhere in the middle,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a big player, we&#8217;ve been a big player now for a few decades and people don&#8217;t realise, I think, that we are so large on the world stage in that respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re sitting third or fourth in Australia at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-shares.com\/company-database.php?search=1&#038;resource=gold&#038;direction=%3E&#038;res_value=100000&#038;type=_production&#038;go=Search+the+Database\">Here is a list of Australian companies producing more than 100,000 ozs of Gold per year<\/a>..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-shares.com\/company-database.php?search=1&#038;resource=gold&#038;direction=%3E&#038;res_value=10000&#038;type=_production&#038;go=Search+the+Database\">Producing more than 10,000 ozs of Gold per year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the links for detailed summary etc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia close to top of gold pile Posted Tue Aug 4, 2009 6:00pm AEST Updated Tue Aug 4, 2009 6:29pm AEST A delegate at the Diggers and Dealers conference in Kalgoorlie says Australia is heading towards the position of second largest gold producer in the world. (Perth Mint) A mining analyst says Australia could become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gold-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}