Goldfield or Goldfields may refer to:
Places
* Goldfield, Arizona, the former name of
Youngberg, Arizona, a populated place in the United States
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Goldfield, Colorado
Goldfield is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Teller County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the ...
, a community in the United States
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Goldfield, Iowa
Goldfield is a city in Wright County, Iowa, United States. The population was 634 at the time of the 2020 census.
History
A post office called Goldfield has been in operation since 1856. Brassfield was the name of a pioneer settler, but it was de ...
, a city in the United States
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Goldfield, Nevada
Goldfield is an unincorporated small desert city and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada.
It is the locus of the Goldfield CDP which had a resident population of 268 at the 2010 census, down from 440 in 2000. Goldfield is located ...
, a town in Esmeralda Country, United States
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Gold Fields (New Zealand electorate)
The Gold Fields District electorate was a 19th-century parliamentary electorate in the Otago region, New Zealand. It was created in 1862, with the first elections in the following year, and it returned two members. It was one of eventually three ...
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Goldfields, Queensland, a locality in the Southern Downs Region, Australia
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Goldfields, Saskatchewan
Goldfields is an abandoned community in Division No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada. It previously held the status of a village until April 1, 1950. The community was informally founded in 1936 by prospectors after the 1934 discovery of gold on the no ...
, an abandoned hamlet in Canada
* An area where
gold mining
Gold mining is the extraction of gold resources by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. However, with the expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface, ...
occurs or has historically occurred:
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Goldfields region of Victoria, Australia
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Kolar Gold Fields
Kolar Gold Fields (K.G.F.) is a mining region in K.G.F. taluk (township), Kolar district, Karnataka, India. It is headquartered in Robertsonpet, where employees of Bharat Gold Mines Limited (BGML) and BEML Limited (formerly Bharat Earth Mov ...
, a major gold mine in India
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Western Australian Goldfields, a term for areas in Western Australia where gold mining has occurred at any time
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Goldfields–Esperance
The Goldfields–Esperance region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is located in the south eastern corner of Western Australia, and comprises the local government areas of Coolgardie, Dundas, Esperance, Kalgoorlie–B ...
, an officially-designated region of Western Australia
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Eastern Goldfields
The Eastern Goldfields is part of the Western Australian Goldfields in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, covering the present and former gold-mining area east of Perth.
Extent and name origin
The region encompasses the to ...
, part of the Western Australian Goldfields in the Goldfields-Esperance region
***Places designated as Gold Fields or
Mineral fields of Western Australia
Mining in Western Australia is administered in terms of the administrative divisions of the:-
* Gold or Mineral Field
* Goldfield District
There have also been various hierarchies of ''State Mining Engineer Inspectorate'' areas, as well as ''Mi ...
Companies
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Ashanti Goldfields Corporation
The Ashanti Goldfields Corporation is a gold mining company based in Ghana that was founded by Joseph Ellis and Joseph Biney both from Cape Coast. The Ashanti Mine, located at Obuasi, 56 km south of Kumasi, has been producing since 1897. Dur ...
, the former name of AngloGold Ashanti
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Consolidated Gold Fields
Consolidated Gold Fields was a British gold-mining company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Hanson in 1988.
History
Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa was fou ...
, a British gold-mining company
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European Goldfields
European Goldfields Ltd. was an EU-focused, Whitehorse based Canadian precious metals company engaged in gold, silver and copper exploration, development and production. The mining rights it owned to land in Greece, Romania and Turkey gave it acc ...
, a company operating in the EU
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Gold Fields
Gold Fields Limited (formerly The Gold Fields of South Africa) is one of the world's largest gold mining firms. Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, the company is listed on both the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the New York Sto ...
, a South African gold mining company
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New Consolidated Gold Fields
New Consolidated Gold Fields Ltd Estonian Branch (commonly known as Goldfields) was an oil shale company located in Kohtla-Nõmme, Estonia. It was a subsidiary of Consolidated Gold Fields.
New Consolidated Gold Fields began oil shale research ...
, an Estonian shale oil company
Other uses
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Goldfield (cigarette), a brand of cigarette
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''Goldfields'' (video game), a 1986 educational game
* , a Panamanian steamship
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David Goldfield
David R. Goldfield is an American historian, writer, film director, and professor. He is a long-time supporter of the Democratic Party. He is the author of sixteen books, including ''Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture' ...
, historian
See also
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Goldfeld (disambiguation)
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