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 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, 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 Mov ...
, 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, an officially-designated region of Western Australia
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Eastern Goldfields, 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 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, 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, historian
See also
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Goldfeld (disambiguation)
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