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Sado gold and silver mine

Sado gold and silver mine, Japan. Heritage site, mining gold, silver.

Why Sado gold and silver mine is famous

Gold and silver mine on Sado island, Niigata. Only the heritage status and coordinates are verified here; mining dates and output still need a primary page.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Epithermal vein (Creede type)

Sado gold and silver mine today

Where gold is mined todayWhere silver is mined todayMining in Japan

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Places

Located inSado Island Gold MinesSado gold and silver mine sits at Sado Island Gold Mines.1

Deposit types

An example ofEpithermal vein (Creede type)Sado gold and silver mine belongs to the epithermal vein family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q11248197 (Sado Mine) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Wikidata item Q127378385 (Sado Island Gold Mines) Wikidata (CC0)
  3. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Pangkalpinang. Mijn 3b. Een reeks koelies bezig met het transporteeren van grond, Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Kimberley, South Africa: miners and washing gear at the Bultfontein diamond mine. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris., Harris, Robert, active 1881-1888. (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Potosi, Bolivia, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).