gold field
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gold field
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Hundreds of rescuers are continuing their search for nine gold field workers who went missing following a landslide in eastern Turkey.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2024
The miners’ medical difficulties stem from a system dating from the early 1900s, after the discovery of the Witwatersrand, the world’s biggest gold field, led to the creation of Anglo American in 1917.
From BusinessWeek ● May 26, 2011
A will-of-the-wisp to Labrador explorers and Labrador investors are the perennial stories of a great-unexploited gold field somewhere up the Hamilton River.
From Time Magazine Archive
Atop the Red Keep's battlements streamed the boy king's banners: the crowned stag of Baratheon on its gold field, the lion of Lannister on crimson.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Machinery for crushing and smelting was transported thither, but the thousands who rushed to the reputed gold field expecting to become suddenly rich, returned disappointed and disheartened.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
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