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New Taipei, Taipei

Jinguashi gold district

Gold ground Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
GoldGold

Also reported: enargite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

Enargite-gold veins under Keelung Mountain that made the Japanese-era gold rush town

Documented in Taiwanese mining history, now the Gold Museum park.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

old adits off trails

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