Toi gold mine

Toi gold mine
土肥金山
Toi gold mine.
Location
Toi gold mine is located in Shizuoka Prefecture
Toi gold mine
Toi gold mine
Location in Japan
Toi gold mine is located in Japan
Toi gold mine
Toi gold mine
Toi gold mine (Japan)
Shizuoka Prefecture
CountryJapan
Coordinates34°54′30″N 138°47′35″E / 34.908257°N 138.792920°E / 34.908257; 138.792920
Production
ProductsGold
Silver
Production40 tonnes gold
400 tonnes silver
History
Opened1601
Closed1965
Owner
CompanyTokugawa 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.