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1848 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 14 Oct. 1/5 The now clearly ascertained fact of the discovery of vast, if we may use the expression, gold fields near the Bay of San Francisco, in Upper California.

1854 T. B. Macaulay Bunyan in Encycl. Brit. V. 767/2 He [sc. John Bunyan] continued to work the Gold-field which he had discovered, and to draw from it new treasures... In 1684 appeared the second part of the Pilgrim's Progress.

1899 J. Bell In Shadow of Bush 85 [He] had tried his luck for a time on the gold-fields of the West Coast.

1922 Mining Mag. Aug. 80/1 In the autumn of last year..there was much talk in London of possible goldfields in Nigeria.

1947 F. Clune Roaming around Aust. 177 In other words, the great Kimberley Goldfield turned out to be a ‘duffer’!

1997 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 10 Aug. 22/1 Hundreds of prospectors flocking to Victoria's goldfields hoping to strike it rich may be surprised to learn the Taxman is standing by to share their good fortune.

2015 D. Rickard Pyrite x. 259 Cyanidation is the most efficient way to recover gold and is used throughout the goldfields of the world today.

1852 Critic 14 Aug. 366/3 It is a clever panorama of the voyage to Australia, and of the gold fields district.

1857 Mt. Alexander (Castlemaine, Austral.) Mail 25 Mar. 2/3 We believe we are no worse off..than any other gold-fields town.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 12 Mar. 1/2 Taking guarantees that the gold-fields government shall respect the rights of natives.

1971 G. J. Griffiths King Wakatip 116 Holidays could only be taken by decree of the goldfields warden.

1990 Labour Hist. No. 59 108 Some form of labour commemoration..is..necessary to make goldfields workers, past and present, visible and properly acknowledged.

2017 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Travel section) The historic town of Walhalla..is the next stop. If I'd arrived about 150 years earlier, I'd have found a bustling goldfields town.

1859 Era 10 Apr. Don't imagine..that we are entirely uncivilized (though it is only a gold field town).

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 272 The goldfield town near which was the station.

1926 A. J. Goldsmith Reminisc. Old Engineer 5 We arrived in Melbourne in the goldfield days, to find living very rough.

1994 Slavic Rev. 53 773 The goldfield workers were the lowly of the empire's proletariat—the hopelessly unemployed, peasants hoping to strike it rich and political exiles working out their terms.

2016 Sportsman (Austral.) (Nexis) 29 Oct. 12 Having spent his early adolescence in the Victorian goldfield town of Ballarat, Blainey retains an enduring connection to rural Australia and the mining industry.