Goldfield or Goldfields may refer to:
- Goldfield, Iowa, a city in Wright Country, USA
- Goldfield, Nevada, a city in Esmeralda Country, USA
- Flowers of the genus Lasthenia
- An area where gold mining occurs or has historically occurred:
- Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, the former name of AngloGold Ashanti
- Gold Fields, a South African gold mining company
- the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia
- the Goldfields region of central Victoria, Australia
- Kolar Gold Fields, a major gold mine in India
- European Goldfields, a Yukon, Canada based gold, silver and copper precious metals company operating in the EU.
- SS Goldfield, a Panamanian steamship
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Goldfields (video game)
Goldfields is a computer game for children which simulates 'life on the diggings' during a 19th-century gold rush. Beginning with a concept by Trevor Jacob, it was developed and published by Jacaranda Software in Australia in 1986. It was first released for Apple II, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and IBM compatible systems. The first Macintosh version was later developed using Hypercard. The original Goldfields package contained a disk, teacher's guide, four black-line masters and a copy of A Goldfields Journal or A Guide to Prospective Gold Seekers. A review in Australian Educational Computing magazine described it as 'a particularly useful package, adaptable to a number of levels in both upper primary and secondary social science classes.' The game also received a favourable review from the Australian Journal of Reading in 1986. Despite its age, Goldfields remains well regarded as a mining-themed economic simulator with integrated action sequences.
Due to its ongoing popularity with children and educators, it was rewritten from scratch for Windows XP and Macintosh OSX by Greygum Software in 2007, who bought the rights to the title after Jacaranda Software's closure in the early 1990s.
Gold Fields (New Zealand electorate)
The Gold Fields District electorate was a 19th-century parliamentary electorate in the Otago region, New Zealand.
History
The electorate was created in 1862 because of the large influx of people to Otago during the Otago Gold Rush, and because the franchise had been extended to males aged 21 years and over who had held a miner’s right continuously for at least three (or six) months. No electoral rolls were established for these districts, and to vote a miner just presented his miner’s licence to the election official. Outside Otago where no special Gold Fields electorate existed, miners could register as electors in the ordinary electoral district where they lived.
William Baldwin's resignation was received on 27 April 1865.Charles Edward Haughton won the resulting 1865 by-election held on 29 May contested by three candidates.
Members
Gold Fields was a two-member electorate, and was represented by five MPs from 1863 to 1870:
