44 operasi. Operator dan kepemilikan sesuai dengan yang dilaporkan secara publik oleh operator; skala digambarkan secara deskriptif dan bukan dinyatakan dengan angka produksi kecuali operator menerbitkannya.
Gulir tabel ke samping untuk melihat kolom-kolom yang tersisa.
| Tambang | Negara | Operator | Jenis | Deposit | Menghasilkan | Sejak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athabasca Oil Sands (Mildred Lake / Aurora) Alberta | Canada | Syncrude / Suncor | Penambangan permukaan truk dan sekop | Bitumen-saturated sand | Oil Sands & Bitumen, Crude Oil, Sulfur | 1967 |
| Bayan Obo Inner Mongolia | China | Baogang Group | Tambang terbuka | Carbonatite-hosted iron-REE-niobium | Rare Earths (all), Cerium, Iron Ore, Lanthanum… | 1957 |
| Bingham Canyon Utah | United States | Rio Tinto Kennecott | Tambang terbuka | Porphyry copper | Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver | 1906 |
| Bowen Basin Queensland | Australia | BHP Mitsubishi Alliance and others | Tambang terbuka dan longwall bawah tanah | Permian coal measures | Metallurgical Coal | 1960 |
| Cannington Queensland | Australia | South32 | Bawah tanah | Broken Hill-type silver-lead-zinc | Silver, Lead, Zinc | 1997 |
| Carajás Pará | Brazil | Vale | Tambang terbuka | Banded iron formation | Iron Ore, Copper, Manganese, Gold | 1985 |
| Cerro Verde Arequipa | Peru | Freeport-McMoRan | Tambang terbuka | Porphyry copper | Copper, Molybdenum, Silver | 1976 |
| Chuquicamata Antofagasta | Chile | Codelco | Bawah tanah (dikonversi dari tambang terbuka) | Porphyry copper | Copper, Molybdenum | 1910 |
| Cigar Lake Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan | Canada | Cameco | Bawah tanah, pengeboran jet melalui tanah beku | Unconformity-related uranium | Uranium | 2014 |
| Collahuasi Tarapacá | Chile | Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi | Tambang terbuka | Porphyry copper | Copper, Molybdenum, Silver | 1999 |
| El Teniente O'Higgins | Chile | Codelco | Bawah tanah block cave | Porphyry copper | Copper, Molybdenum | 1905 |
| Escondida Antofagasta, Atacama Desert | Chile | BHP | Tambang terbuka + pelindian | Porphyry copper | Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver | 1990 |
| Esterhazy Saskatchewan | Canada | Mosaic | Bawah tanah | Bedded evaporite potash | Potash | 1962 |
| Goulamina Bougouni | Mali | Lithium du Mali | Tambang terbuka | LCT pegmatite | Lithium | 2024 |
| Grasberg Papua | Indonesia | Freeport-McMoRan / PT-FI | Bawah tanah block cave (sebelumnya tambang terbuka) | Porphyry / skarn copper-gold | Copper, Gold, Silver | 1973 |
| Greenbushes Western Australia | Australia | Talison Lithium | Tambang terbuka | Zoned pegmatite | Lithium, Tantalum | 1888 |
| Groote Eylandt (GEMCO) Northern Territory | Australia | South32 | Tambang terbuka | Sedimentary manganese | Manganese | 1965 |
| Jwaneng Naledi River valley | Botswana | Debswana | Tambang terbuka | Kimberlite pipe | Diamond (Industrial) | 1982 |
| Kalgoorlie Super Pit (Fimiston) Western Australia | Australia | Northern Star Resources | Tambang terbuka | Archaean orogenic gold | Gold, Silver | 1989 |
| Kamoa-Kakula Lualaba | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Kamoa Copper SA | Bawah tanah | Sediment-hosted stratiform copper | Copper, Cobalt | 2021 |
| Kamoto (KCC) Kolwezi | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Kamoto Copper Company | Bawah tanah + tambang terbuka | Sediment-hosted copper-cobalt | Copper, Cobalt | 1969 |
| Khouribga Oulad Abdoun Basin | Morocco | OCP Group | Tambang terbuka | Sedimentary phosphorite | Phosphate Rock | 1921 |
| Moanda Haut-Ogooué | Gabon | Eramet / Comilog | Tambang terbuka | Sedimentary manganese | Manganese | 1962 |
| Mogalakwena Limpopo, Bushveld Complex | South Africa | Anglo American Platinum | Tambang terbuka | Layered mafic intrusion (Platreef) | Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Copper, Nickel | 1993 |
| Morenci Arizona | United States | Freeport-McMoRan | Tambang terbuka + pelindian SX-EW | Porphyry copper | Copper, Molybdenum | 1872 |
| Mount Weld Western Australia | Australia | Lynas Rare Earths | Tambang terbuka | Weathered carbonatite | Rare Earths (all), Neodymium, Praseodymium | 2011 |
| Mountain Pass California | United States | MP Materials | Tambang terbuka | Carbonatite | Rare Earths (all), Cerium, Lanthanum, Neodymium… | 1952 |
| Mponeng Gauteng, Witwatersrand | South Africa | Harmony Gold | Bawah tanah | Witwatersrand conglomerate reef | Gold, Uranium | 1986 |
| Mutanda Lualaba | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Glencore | Tambang terbuka | Sediment-hosted copper-cobalt | Cobalt, Copper | 2012 |
| Norilsk-Talnakh Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia | Russia | Nornickel | Bawah tanah | Magmatic nickel-copper-PGM sulfide | Nickel, Copper, Palladium, Platinum, Cobalt, Rhodium | 1935 |
| Olympic Dam South Australia | Australia | BHP | Bawah tanah | Iron-oxide copper-gold (IOCG) | Copper, Uranium, Gold, Silver | 1988 |
| Oyu Tolgoi South Gobi | Mongolia | Rio Tinto | Tambang terbuka + block cave bawah tanah | Porphyry copper-gold | Copper, Gold, Silver | 2013 |
| Pilbara Iron Ore District Western Australia | Australia | Rio Tinto, BHP, FMG, Hancock | Tambang terbuka | Banded iron formation, hematite enrichment | Iron Ore | 1966 |
| Pilgangoora Pilbara, Western Australia | Australia | Pilbara Minerals | Tambang terbuka | LCT pegmatite | Lithium, Tantalum | 2018 |
| Red Dog Alaska | United States | Teck Resources | Tambang terbuka | Sediment-hosted zinc-lead (SEDEX) | Zinc, Lead, Germanium | 1989 |
| Salar de Atacama Antofagasta | Chile | SQM and Albemarle | Evaporasi air garam | Salar brine | Lithium, Potash, Boron | 1984 |
| Salar del Hombre Muerto Catamarca / Salta | Argentina | Arcadium Lithium (Rio Tinto) | Air garam, adsorpsi selektif | Salar brine | Lithium | 1998 |
| Sorowako Sulawesi | Indonesia | PT Vale Indonesia | Tambang terbuka + smelter | Nickel laterite | Nickel, Cobalt | 1977 |
| Southern China Ion-Adsorption Clays Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian | China | Multiple state-consolidated producers | Pelindian in-situ granit terlapuk | Ion-adsorption clay | Rare Earths (all), Dysprosium, Gadolinium, Terbium… | 1970 |
| Sudbury Basin Ontario | Canada | Vale and Glencore | Bawah tanah | Impact-related magmatic sulfide | Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, Palladium, Platinum | 1883 |
| Tenke Fungurume Lualaba | Democratic Republic of the Congo | CMOC | Tambang terbuka + pabrik hidrometalurgi | Sediment-hosted copper-cobalt | Copper, Cobalt | 2009 |
| Thacker Pass Nevada | United States | Lithium Americas | Tambang terbuka + pelindian asam | Volcano-sedimentary claystone | Lithium | — |
| Udachny Sakha (Yakutia) | Russia | Alrosa | Bawah tanah (sebelumnya tambang terbuka) | Kimberlite pipe | Diamond (Industrial) | 1971 |
| Xikuangshan Hunan | China | Chinese state and provincial producers | Bawah tanah | Stibnite vein and stratabound antimony | Antimony | 1897 |
Telusuri berdasarkan gambar

Athabasca Oil Sands (Mildred Lake / Aurora)
Among the largest surface mining operations in the world by material moved.

Bayan Obo
The largest rare-earth deposit in the world.

Bingham Canyon
The largest excavation made by people.

Bowen Basin
The largest seaborne source of hard coking coal.

Cannington
One of the largest single silver producers in the world.

Carajás
The highest-grade large iron-ore operation in the world.

Cerro Verde
One of the largest concentrator complexes in the world by throughput.

Chuquicamata
Historically the largest open-pit copper mine in the world by excavated volume.

Cigar Lake
The highest-grade large uranium mine in the world.

Collahuasi
Among the largest copper mines by output.

El Teniente
The largest underground copper mine in the world by excavated extent.

Escondida
Consistently the largest copper mine in the world by output.

Esterhazy
The largest potash mine in the world.

Goulamina
One of the mines behind Mali's sudden appearance in world lithium statistics.

Grasberg
One of the largest copper deposits and among the largest gold deposits ever mined.

Greenbushes
The largest hard-rock lithium mine in the world.

Groote Eylandt (GEMCO)
One of the largest and highest-grade manganese operations in the world.

Jwaneng
The richest diamond mine in the world by value.

Kalgoorlie Super Pit (Fimiston)
One of the largest open-pit gold mines in the world.

Kamoa-Kakula
One of the highest-grade large copper deposits discovered in decades.

Kamoto (KCC)
Among the world's largest cobalt producers.

Khouribga
Part of the largest phosphate reserve base in the world.

Moanda
One of the world's largest manganese deposits.

Mogalakwena
The largest open-pit platinum-group metals mine in the world.

Morenci
The largest copper operation in North America.
Mount Weld
The mine behind the largest rare-earth separation capacity outside China.

Mountain Pass
The only operating rare-earth mine in the United States.

Mponeng
The deepest mine on Earth, working below 4 km.

Mutanda
At times the single largest cobalt mine in the world.

Norilsk-Talnakh
The largest palladium source in the world and a major nickel producer.

Olympic Dam
One of the largest single orebodies of any kind, holding copper, uranium, gold and silver together.

Oyu Tolgoi
Expected to become one of the largest copper mines in the world as the block cave ramps up.

Pilbara Iron Ore District
The largest iron-ore export region in the world.
Pilgangoora
One of the largest independent hard-rock lithium operations.

Red Dog
One of the largest zinc mines in the world.

Salar de Atacama
The highest-grade and most productive lithium brine operation in the world.

Salar del Hombre Muerto
The longest-running direct lithium extraction operation in the world.

Sorowako
One of Indonesia's long-established integrated nickel operations.

Southern China Ion-Adsorption Clays
Historically the dominant world source of heavy rare earths.

Sudbury Basin
One of the longest-producing nickel districts on Earth.

Tenke Fungurume
One of the largest cobalt sources on Earth.

Thacker Pass
The largest known lithium resource in the United States.

Udachny
One of the world's largest diamond operations.

Xikuangshan
The largest antimony deposit in the world, often called the 'antimony capital'.