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goldfield

[ US /ˈɡoʊɫdˌfiɫd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a district where gold is mined

How To Use goldfield In A Sentence

  • The New Zealand Minerals Industry Association estimates there is $30 billion worth of gold in the Hauraki goldfields but most is under Conservation Department land which can not be mined.
  • He briefly served as alcalde, or magistrate [nagistrate], of San Luis Rey Mission, California, and did a stint in the California goldfields.
  • In this stanza he is referring to his home town of Grenfell in this state, where he was born in a tent on the goldfields.
  • The raid by guards on the stockade set up by diggers in the Victorian goldfields only lasted an hour.
  • At Goldfield, Nevada, native gold is found in surface igneous flows of a dacite type, which have undergone extensive hydrothermal alterations characterized by the development of alunite (a potassium-aluminum sulphate), quartz, and pyrite. The Economic Aspect of Geology
  • It sold the upper leases to New Guinea Goldfields Limited in return for an allotment of 90,000 paid-up shares of $1 each in that company.
  • Such legends abounded in the goldfields, and they were all so false as to be a joke to fool a tenderfoot. PAINT THE WIND
  • It was built to satisfy the demand for an improved route to the goldfields on the West Coast.
  • Later, he paddled up the Amazon in a canoe, tried his luck on the Californian goldfields, and settled in Australia where he raced a grand clipper ship, Queen of Sheba, and became a pioneer of steamboat technology.
  • On 6 July 1899 the Worturpa district was officially declared a goldfield.
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