The recent rise in gold prices reflects concerns that mine production is not keeping up with demand.

Automation has eliminated almost half a million mining jobs and, at the same time, increased mine production.

Production Africa's mine production of copper increased by 48% from 2000 to 2005.

Production African mine production of nickel increased by nearly 9% from 2000 to 2005.

Outlook Nickel mine production is likely to double from 2005 to 2011.

During the Civil War in 1861-1865, mine production was down.

The Russians said yesterday that their mine production dropped 8.5 percent last year, to 129.5 million metric tons.

That is equal to about 6 percent of total mine production.

The uranium for the Soviet nuclear weapons program came from the following countries in the years 1945 to 1950 (mine production only):

In 2010, total global mine production of silver was approximately 735 million troy ounces.