금맥은 금산면과 금구면 일대에 퍼져 있었는데, 한참 동안 채굴이 이루어지지 않다가 1869년 즈음에 다시 시작되었다.
Plenty of gold was scattered throughout Geumsan-myeon and Geumgu-myeon, and excavation was not done for a long time but it was restarted around 1869.