goldfields
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There were swaths of goldfields and pockets of other wildflowers there, but the tall, thick grass fueled by rainstorms crowded the views.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024
At Los Padres National Forest along the Central California coast, swaths of California poppies, California buttercups, purple shooting stars and goldfields fill the slopes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
Its imperial capital was advantageously situated at Niani, in the southern savanna country of the upper Niger valley near the goldfields of Bure.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Mali’s control of the Bure goldfields enabled it to prosper, and cities such as Timbuktu and Djenné became centers of Islamic scholarship.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
A long way to the northwest were the goldfields.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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