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East Coolgardie Goldfield

East Coolgardie Goldfield , Western Australia, SW Australia. It is the richest gold field in Australia. The chief mining center is the town of Kalgoorlie. Coolgardie, of little importance today, was the first gold-rush town in the area. Gold was discovered there in 1892.

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Coolgardie Australia: see East Coolgardie Goldfield ; Kalgoorlie .

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	Richard G. Hartley, River of Steel: A History of the Western Australian Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply.(Book review) Magazine article from: Labour History - A Journal of Labour and Social History; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...the Western Australian Goldfields and Agricultural Water...Mundaring Weir in the hills east of Perth to the Eastern Goldfields centres of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. The statistics...carry water to the arid Goldfields involved building at Mundaring...
	WA: Goldfields fires fanned by scorching heat and strong winds Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/8/2001; 455 words ; ...01-08-2001 WA: Goldfields fires fanned by scorching...strong winds fanned the Goldfields blaze over the weekend...inaccessible scrub north of Coolgardie, 557km east of Perth. Strong winds...WA, including the Goldfields fire, but most had...
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