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Field's Find, Western Australia

Fields Find: 29° 2' 20'' South , 117° 14' 30'' East

The area is better known as a small historic goldfield in low hills along the road between Paynes Find and Yalgoo. All that remains is the cemetery and diggings. The location is 51 kilometres north-west of Paynes Find, and 98 kilometres south-east of Yalgoo, along the Paynes Find-Yalgoo Road, just west of its intersection with the Warriedar Road.

The field was active from the late 1890's to the 1930's, and was largely the preserve of individual or pairs of miners with small operations. Since that time intermittent specimen mining for slabbed jasper takes place, and it has been explored for iron ore.

Discoverd by 3 prospectors - Tongue, Varley and Meyer in mid 1894. They didn't peg it and left, when they returned they were disappointedto find James J Field and his partner George Woodley had pegged it.

Reccomended reading:- "Field's Gold" by Alex Palmer

The story of Field's Find and the Yalgoo Goldfields
pictures, maps and indexed
Published by Fremantle Arts Press 1981
ISBN 0909 144 45 1

Available from:
Hesperian Press - https://www.hesperianpress.com/
and The Eastern Goldfields Historical Soc - https://www.kalgoorliehistory.org.au/

 


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