Yamana Gold Company Description
Yamana Gold does its business in Central and South America. The company's operating and development-stage mines contain some 19 million ounces of proved and probable gold reserves and produce nearly 1 million ounces annually. It also mines for copper and silver. Yamana's mines are located in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, and Mexico. Its gold production was about 300,000 ounces in 2006; it about doubled that the next year and then almost doubled that again in 2008. The company targets annual production of more than 2 million ounces by 2012.
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