Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A town of southwest Australia east-northeast of Perth. Gold was discovered in the area in the late 1800s.
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- proper noun A city in
Western Australia .
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Examples
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I suppose my mother could see the young boys in Kalgoorlie leaving school at 16 and going down the mines to work.
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After a period back in Kalgoorlie, my mother decided to move the family to Perth where my second brother, Andrew, was born in 1958.
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By then, my grandparents had the license on the Tower Hotel in Kalgoorlie and periodically we would return there to live.
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However, long term Kalgoorlie-Boulder mayor Ron Yuryevich later said two people had received non-serious injuries around buildings in Boulder's historic Burt Street.
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Long-term Kalgoorlie mayor Ron Yuryevich said the massive Super Pit mine had been evactuated as a safety precaution.
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However, long term Kalgoorlie-Boulder mayor Ron Yuryevich later said two people had received non-serious injuries around buildings in Boulder's historic Burt Street.
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Long-term Kalgoorlie mayor Ron Yuryevich said the massive Super Pit mine had been evactuated as a safety precaution.
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One of the Australian cities this columnist was enthusiastic about seeing was Kalgoorlie, which is a gold mining town in a remote area of Western Australia (called WA by the locals).
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Curiously, this great goldfield of Hannan's (now called Kalgoorlie) was found by the veriest chance.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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Australia's largest mine in the heart of Kalgoorlie, the Super Pit gold mine operated by the Barrick/Newmont joint venture called Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, has been temporarily shut.
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