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 south coast.

Designated goldfields in Western Australia include:

Mid West region:

  • Ashburton Goldfield[1]
  • East Murchison Goldfield[2]
  • Gascoyne Goldfield[3]
  • Murchison Goldfield[4]

Goldfields region:

  • Broad Arrow Goldfield
  • Coolgardie Goldfield
  • East Coolgardie Goldfield
  • North East Coolgardie Goldfield
  • North Coolgardie Goldfield
  • Yilgarn Goldfield

Goldfields to Eastern Goldfields

In the 1890s the goldfields term was used for country between Southern Cross and Coolgardie, however as the gold fields extended to Kalgoorlie and beyond, the term Eastern Goldfields was used for the locations in vicinity of Kalgoorlie at that stage.[5][6]

Sometimes West Australian Goldfields, even the goldfields or Eastern Goldfields is a term that has been used to either identify the region surrounding Kalgoorlie-Boulder within the current broader designated region of Goldfields-Esperance in Western Australia.

The term has been used in books specifically referring to the Kalgoorlie region.[7]

The term has been used in government reports as a reference for all of the goldfields found in Western Australia.[8]

The term has been used in company names.[9]

See also

References
  1. "Ashburton Goldfield". The West Australian. Vol. 55, no. 16, 641. Western Australia. 2 November 1939. p. 8. Retrieved 10 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "East Murchison Goldfield". The Daily News. Vol. XLII, no. 14, 982. Western Australia. 26 April 1923. p. 7 (Third Edition). Retrieved 10 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Gascoyne Goldfield". Western Argus. Vol. 25, no. 5054. Western Australia. 14 September 1920. p. 26. Retrieved 10 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. Woodward, Harry P. (Harry Page) (1893), Report on the Murchison Goldfield, Richard Pether, Government Printer, retrieved 10 August 2016
  5. Compton, G. Spencer (1953), The eastern goldfields : Kalgoorlie and Boulder, G.S. Compton?, retrieved 10 August 2016
  6. Eastern Goldfields : a century of secondary education, 1914 - 2014, [Kalgoorlie, W.A.] [Eastern Goldfields High School?], 2014, retrieved 10 August 2016
  7. King, Norma (1980), Colourful tales of the Western Australian goldfields, Rigby, ISBN 978-0-7270-1127-5
  8. Robert Sands Frearson (1894), Western Australian goldfields, [Adel, retrieved 10 August 2016
  9. "Western Australian Goldfields, Ltd". The Daily News. Vol. XIII, no. 6, 351. Western Australia. 19 September 1895. p. 7. Retrieved 10 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
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