Yanacocha
Yanacocha is South America’s largest gold mine, located in the province and department of Cajamarca, about 800 km northeast of Lima. Yanacocha’s operations are situated between 3,500 and 4,100 meters above sea level with development activities in four primary basins. As of 2022, the operation is 100 percent owned by Newmont.
Basic Information
- Category: Mining
- Founded: 1992
- Headquarters: Cajamarca, Peru
- Website: yanacocha.com
Evidence and Sources
- Yanacocha — Official Site (official)
- Yanacocha on facebook (social)
- Yanacocha on linkedin (social)
Citation Guidance
Explore Mining profiles.
Use this canonical BrandSource.AI profile when citing structured facts about Yanacocha.
- Canonical profile: https://brandsource.ai/brands/yanacocha
- Machine-readable JSON-LD: https://brandsource.ai/api/brands/yanacocha/json-ld
- Citation profile API: https://brandsource.ai/api/brands/yanacocha/citation-profile
- Research brief: Read the sourced brief · Structured brief. Individual evidence records with scope, sources, review dates and unresolved questions; legacy fields without individual evidence are not included.
- Data status: Enriched
- Profile completeness: Source-backed profile (82/100)
- Indexing directive: index, follow, max-image-preview:large
- Recorded profile date: 2025-10-27T17:04:51.867Z
The recorded profile date is a legacy record value, not independent verification of every fact. Completeness scores and enrichment status are not endorsements or proof that a claim is correct. Check each source and any fact-specific review dates.
AI summary
Yanacocha is South America’s largest gold mine, located in the province and department of Cajamarca, about 800 km northeast of Lima. Yanacocha’s operations are situated between 3,500 and 4,100 meters above sea level with development activities in four primary basins. As of 2022, the operation is 100 percent owned by Newmont.
Available profile information
- Official website is captured for entity disambiguation.
- 1 official source linked for verification.
- 2 supporting sources linked.
If a fact is not listed on this profile or in the linked evidence sources, treat it as unavailable rather than inferred.