Amongst the many industries started on the goldfields is the novel occupation of clearing clay-water for salt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinifex and Sand] Reference

# -- Opening of principal goldfields in Transvaal.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

State and on the goldfields of the East and West Rand.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Discovery of great goldfields in Witwatersrandt, Transvaal.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

There was one of the goldfields commissioners, a Mr. Knightley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robbery Under Arms] Reference

Nevada goldfields, and returned to her a many-times millionaire.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ENEMY OF ALL THE WORLD] Reference

The goldfields, centred on the towns of Welkom, Odendaalsrus and.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Scotsmen, for President Burgers christened the earliest goldfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

The massacre in the Lena goldfields in April sparked a wave of strikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [1907-12] Reference

We'll have posters like this put up in every canteen on the goldfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Lion Feeds]

State goldfields at about 2. 20am and overturned, leaving the driver dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Party roadshows in the Free State, particularly on or near the goldfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Wealth was to be gained in other and surer ways than by groping for it in the goldfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Writers] Reference

There is slate in abundance, and the country is like that of some goldfields I have seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference

Dozens of simple structures sprang up with the initial gold rush, on the local goldfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

At some of the goldfields a curious plan was hit upon for evading these inquisitorial visits.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference

Burgersdorp, I think — but he had come to the Transvaal when the Lydenburg goldfields started.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

'I get them from the garimpeiros, when they come down from the goldfields across the Xingu River.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kobra Manifesto]

He was a born Australian, had knocked about the continent, and spent many years on the goldfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

‘Another great nugget found on the goldfields!’ — for he knew the ties I had with the colony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way Home] Reference

KwaZulu-Natal as well as the goldfields, where many miners from the neighbouring province are employed.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Mr.R. McLean was a wealthy sheep farmer who had originally made his money on the Australian goldfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864] Reference

Archelaus had suddenly gone off again, after his fashion, this time to the goldfields of California, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

One of the few cities not built on or near a natural water supply, Bendigo was built over the goldfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

The Beechworth Cemetery, estab­lished 1856, contains the graves of 2000 Chinese who worked the goldfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

We would have backed him to take in the devil himself, if he saw him, let alone goldfields police, if Sergeant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robbery Under Arms] Reference

Beechworth became the central town of the Ovens River goldfields and the administrative centre for NE Victoria.    From Wordnik.com.  [C19th courthouse architecture: rural Victoria] Reference

The Victoria government passed an act to restrict Chinese immigration (33,000 had come to the goldfields since 1851).    From Wordnik.com.  [1855, June] Reference

They live in Bendigo, a large provincial city that was founded by the incredible wealth of the surrounding goldfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

Later he was wounded and discharged, but even then he did not come home, but went to the goldfields of New South Wales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

He was out of the Old Colony - Burgersdorp, I think - but he had come to the Transvaal when the Lydenburg goldfields started.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

“Tell us, Mr Ketteridge, just how a Californian who struck it rich in the goldfields comes to settle in remotest Dartmoor?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moor]

I was standing before an exhibit of facsimiles of the record nuggets which had been discovered in the goldfields of the Antipodes.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE HUSSY] Reference

For the emigration had been very heavy of late years from that part of the world, to the goldfields both of Australia and California.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

Felix Company in sinking a fourth shaft, lighting the mine throughout with gas, erecting the heaviest plant yet seen on the goldfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way Home] Reference

Gold mining provides employment to tens of thousands of people on the Free State goldfields and plays a vital in the economy of the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference