Konomai Gold Mines
Japan /
Hokkaido /
Mombetsu /
World
/ Japan
/ Hokkaido
/ Mombetsu
World / Japan / Hokkaido
abandoned / shut down, mine
The Konomai Mines (Kohnomai Mine) are located 30 km south of Monbetsu, Abashiri Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan (44° 23' North : 143° 22' East). The initial discovery was in 1915 and from then until 1973, when the mine was closed, some 73 tons of gold and more than 1200 tons of silver were produced by the Sumitomo group. It was one of the richest gold mines in Japan and referred to as "the biggest goldmine in the Orient". At its peak in the 1940s, 13,000 miners, their families, and attendant merchants lived in the area.
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konomai_gold_mine
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 44°8'58"N 143°20'30"E
- slag heap of Mitsui Sunagawa Coal Mine 133 km
- Open-Pit Mining of Hokuryo Corp. 141 km
- Slag heap 143 km
- former Mitsubishi Bibai Coal Mine 145 km
- Open-pit Mining of Sanbi Coal Mine 146 km
- Mikasa Coal Mine of Sunago & Co. 146 km
- Slag heap of coal mining 149 km
- Former site of Miruto Coal Mine 160 km
- a limestone quarry 345 km
- Mnogovershinny gold-silver mine 1118 km
- Monbetsu Airport 18 km
- Runway 14/32 18 km
- Monbetsu Port Konan Wharf 21 km
- Monbetsu Port No. 3 Pier 21 km
- Monbetsu Port Pier No. 2 22 km
- Monbetsu Port East Wharf No. 2 Pier 22 km
- Monbetsu Port No. 1 Pier 22 km
- Monbetsu Port 22 km
- Soft Bank Monbetu Solar Park 23 km
- Aza Saruru 33 km