It is located in the south-eastern corner of Western Australia, and comprises the local government areas of Coolgardie, Dundas, Esperance, Kalgoorlie–Boulder, Laverton, Leonora, Menzies, Ngaanyatjarraku, Ravensthorpe and Wiluna.

There are no rivers; any rainfall that is not absorbed by the dense rooting systems of the native flora percolates to form extremely saline groundwater, which is very frequently too salty even for adult sheep.

Climate change has already had a major impact[citation needed]: in the Kalgoorlie – Eucla – Wiluna – Giles area annual rainfall has increased by over 40 percent since 1967 – probably due to lower frequencies of anticyclones located over the interior of Australia instead of the adjacent oceans.

The economy of the Goldfields sub-region is based on the extraction and processing of various mineral resources, primarily gold and nickel.

In 1923 Yundmindera was purchased along with Mount Celia Station with a combined area of over 1,000,000 acres (4,047 km2) by T. H. Pearse, who stocked the property with sheep.

[6] These crops require huge inputs of fertilisers because of the sandy nature of the soils and are a major threat to the region's great plant diversity.