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
[edit]There are goldfields across the state of Western Australia that area included in the range of Mineral fields of Western Australia, from the Kimberley region to the south coast.
Designated goldfields in Western Australia have included:
Mid West region
[edit]Goldfields region
[edit]- Broad Arrow Goldfield
- Coolgardie Goldfield
- East Coolgardie Goldfield
- North East Coolgardie Goldfield
- North Coolgardie Goldfield
- Yilgarn Goldfield
Goldfields to Eastern Goldfields
[edit]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]
Kimberley goldfield
[edit]The Kimberley goldfield was proclaimed in 1886.[10][11]
The Kimberley goldfield was relatively short lived, mainly the rush period of the 1880s and 1890s being the notable era on the field.[12][13]
Pilbara goldfield
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Gascoyne Goldfield". Western Argus. Vol. 25, no. 5054. Western Australia. 14 September 1920. p. 26. Retrieved 10 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Woodward, Harry P. (1893), Report on the Murchison Goldfield, Richard Pether, Government Printer, retrieved 10 August 2016
- ^ Compton, G. Spencer (1953), The eastern goldfields : Kalgoorlie and Boulder, G.S. Compton?, retrieved 10 August 2016
- ^ Eastern Goldfields : a century of secondary education, 1914 - 2014, [Kalgoorlie, W.A.] [Eastern Goldfields High School?], 2014, retrieved 10 August 2016
- ^ King, Norma (1980), Colourful tales of the Western Australian goldfields, Rigby, ISBN 978-0-7270-1127-5
- ^ Robert Sands Frearson (1894), Western Australian goldfields, Adel, retrieved 10 August 2016
- ^ "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.
- ^ Playford, Phillip E. (Phillip Elliott); Ruddock, Ian, Discovery of the Kimberley goldfield, retrieved 8 January 2024
- ^ Riganti, A.; Johnston, J. F.; Hocking, R. M.; Martin, D. McB. (2016), Mapping Western Australia: state geological maps 1894-2015 (First ed.), Geological Survey of Western Australia, p. 6, ISBN 978-1-74168-666-1
- ^ "Kimberley Goldfield". North Australian (Darwin). Vol. IV, no. 11. Northern Territory, Australia. 13 August 1886. p. 3. Retrieved 8 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Kimberley Goldfield". The West Australian. Vol. XLVIII, no. 9, 306. Western Australia. 23 April 1932. p. 15. Retrieved 8 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.