 The Malay Peninsula is thought to have been a producer of gold in ancient times, and gold mines in Patani and Pahang were still mentioned in the 17th century by the Malay-Portuguese writer Godinho de Erédia.Although gold is now not a major product of modern-day Malaysia, it is still being mined, for example in Raub in Pahang.The Golden Chersonese appears in the map of Ptolemy, which gives some geographical locations on the peninsula.