The Cerro Negro mine in Santa Cruz Province, southern

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

, is one of the largest

gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...

mines in the world. It has estimated reserves of 5.74 million ounces of gold and 49.36 million ounces of

silver Silver is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag (from the Latin ', derived from the Proto-Indo-European wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂erǵ-, ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, whi ...

. The mine was designed and built by M3 Engineering.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cerro Negro Mine Gold mines in Argentina Mines in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina