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, 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 ...
, a city in the United States
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Goldfield, Nevada
Goldfield is an unincorporated town and census-designated place 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. Gold ...
, a town in Esmeralda Country, United States
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Gold Fields (New Zealand electorate)
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Goldfields, Queensland, a locality in the Southern Downs Region, Australia
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Goldfields, Saskatchewan, an abandoned hamlet in Canada
Actual fields of gold
An area where
gold mining
Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.
Historically, mining gold from Alluvium, alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. The expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface has led to mor ...
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, 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 ''Min ...
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Goldfields (Victoria)
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Transvaal gold fields, mining during the 19th century in the South African Republic
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West African gold fields
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Lena gold fields, gold fields near the Lena River in Russia
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Lupa Gold Field in Tanzania
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Pikes Peak gold field
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California gold fields
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Klondike gold fields
Companies
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Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, 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 fo ...
, a British gold-mining company
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European Goldfields, 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 St ...
, 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
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Goldfields Raceway, a former racetrack in South Africa
Other uses
* 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, historian
* ''
Lasthenia californica,'' flower commonly known as California goldfields
See also
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Goldfeld (disambiguation)
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