| TOMSK | City in the Siberian Federal District, Russia; a former important gold-mining town |
| HILLEND | Name a former NSW gold-mining town in the Bathurst area (4,3) |
| SAKHA | What is one of the names for the Siberian federal republic whose capital is Yakutsk? (5) |
| BENDIGO | Former gold-mining town in Victoria, Australia (7) |
| SPERRIN | A proposed gold mining project in the ___ Mountains was recently in the news in Ireland. (7) |
| NOME | Alaskan gold mining town known as Anvil City until 1900 |
| KRUGERSDORP | Gold mining town in Gauteng Province, South Africa (11) |
| USA | Constitutional federal republic comprising a federal district and fifty states, including an archipelago in the mid-Pacific (1,1,1) |
| UKASE | In imperial Russia, a proclamation by a tsar or government having the force of law (5) |
| REEFTON | West Coast former gold-mining town (7) |
| BRAKPAN | Gold mining town in South Africa (7) |
| BLYVOORUITZICHT | Buy victor zol and hit wild gold mining town (15) |
| HANDBALL | Seven-a-side sport won by Denmark and Russia a the 2016 Olympics by the men's and women's teams respectively (8) |
| VYATKA | River in Russia, a tributary of the Kama River upon which Kotelnich stands (6) |
| ELKO | Nevada gold-mining town |
| ARROWTOWN | Historic South Island gold-mining town (9) |
| KOLYMA | Named after a Siberian river, region in the Russian Far East known for Gulag labour camps and gold mining (6) |
| REEF | A rocky ridge near the water's surface; or, in gold mining, a lode or vein of auriferous quartz (4) |
| OLIGARCH | In Russia, a wealthy person with political power (8) |
| BALLARAT | Australian town which was originally the centre of a gold-mining region (8) |
