Costerfield is a former mining locality in north central

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, Australia. The locality is in the

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, north of the state capital,

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. 12 km north-east of Heathcote the town name was a combination of the surnames of Alan Coster and Edwin Field. Prospectors who found gold in the locality in 1861. An Anglican school was opened in 1862 and closed in 1950. It was then reopned in 1962 and closed in 1992. At the , Costerfield had a population of 75.

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