Goldfield or Goldfields may refer to:
Places
* Goldfield, Arizona, the former name of
Youngberg, Arizona
Youngberg is a populated place situated in Pinal County, Arizona, United States.
History
Originally called Goldfield due to the nearby gold mines, The Goldfield Post Office was established on October 7, 1893, with James L Patterson as its first ...
, 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 Go ...
, 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 community, unincorporated small desert city and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada.
It is the locus of the census-designated place, Goldfield CDP which had a resident population of 268 at the 2010 Unite ...
, 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
Goldfields is a rural locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Goldfields had a population of 28 people.
Geography
The terrain is undulating and predominantly used for grazing cattle. A small area in the north of ...
, a locality in the Southern Downs Region, Australia
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Goldfields, Saskatchewan, 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
The Goldfields region of Victoria is a region commonly used but typically defined in both historical geography and tourism geography (in particular heritage tourism). The region is also known as the Victorian Golden Triangle.
Description
I ...
, 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 Move ...
, a major gold mine in India
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Western Australian Goldfields
The Western Australian Goldfields is a term for areas in Western Australia that have had significant areas of gold mining occur.
Range of goldfields
There are goldfields across the state of Western Australia, from the Kimberley region to the so ...
, 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–Bo ...
, 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 town ...
, 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 ...
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)
Goldfield (In Belgium known as Goldprince and in Slovakia known as Claridge) is a brand of cigarettes that is owned by the German grocery chain Lidl. The brand is manufactured by various tobacco companies (''"Landewyck Tobacco"'' in Germany, ''" ...
, 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) Goldfeld may refer to:
Places
* Goldfield, Nevada, ghost town in Nevada, USA
* Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield, Nevada, was added to the Nevada State Register of Historic Places and was part of the scenery of many Ghost TV shows and movies
Other use ...
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