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Sado Island Gold Mines

Heritage site, Japan.

About Sado Island Gold Mines

Sado Island Gold Mines, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2024.1,2

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Mines

Worked atSado gold and silver mineSado Island Gold Mines lies close to Sado gold and silver mine.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q127378385 (Sado Island Gold Mines)
  2. Sado Island Gold Mines UNESCO World Heritage Centre

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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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.