Toi Gold Museum
| Toi Gold Museum | |
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土肥黄金館 | |
| File:Central building at the Toi mine complex.jpg Entrance building to the Toi Gold Museum | |
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| General information | |
| Location | 2726 Toi, Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan |
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The Toi Gold Museum (土肥黄金館, Toi Kinzokukan) is a museum on the subject of gold mining in ancient and modern Japan, which is located next to the Toi gold mine in the city of Izu, Shizuoka, Japan.
Museum
[edit | edit source]The museum displays reconstitutions of the manufacturing process for gold during the Tokugawa period, ancient artifacts from the period, explanatory exhibitions about gold processing, and an exhibit of various gold ores from various places throughout Japan.
The museum received some fame for housing the world's largest gold bar, weighing 250 kilograms (8,000 ozt),[1][2] and representing a 2016 value of about 1.1 billion yen (US$9.7 million). It has a fineness of 99.99%. The bar obtained an official Guinness record certificate for "The largest manufactured pure gold bar":[3]
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Relative sizes of an 860-kilogram (1,900 lb) rock ore, and the 30 grams (1.1 oz) of gold that can be extracted from it
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The world's largest gold bar, at 250 kg, can be seen and touched
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Explanations about gold foil
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ The Japan Journal: "Three Diamonds Cast Gold-Medal Gold Bar" (November 2005) Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 18 August 2009
- ^ The Japan Times: "Mitsubishi makes record-size gold bar" (17 January 2005). Retrieved on 18 August 2009
- ^ Guinness World Records certificate at Toi Mine Museum
External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website (in Japanese)