Location | |
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Shizuoka Prefecture | |
Country | Japan |
Coordinates | 34°54′30″N 138°47′35″E / 34.908257°N 138.792920°E |
Production | |
Products | Gold Silver |
Production | 40 tonnes gold 400 tonnes silver |
History | |
Opened | 1601 |
Closed | 1965 |
Owner | |
Company | Tokugawa shogunate Japanese government 1917: Toi Kinzan KK. 1931: Sumitomo Group 1942: Toi Kōgyō KK Present: Toi Marine Kankō KK |
The Toi gold mine (土肥鉱山, also 土肥金山, Toi kinzan) was an important gold mine during the Edo period in Japan, located within what is now part of the city of Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture in the middle of the Izu Peninsula. It remained in operation to the mid-twentieth century.