WA's Gold Stealing Detection Unit has charged a 52-year-old man from Kalgoorlie with stealing gold valued at $200,000 from a Goldfields mine site.

The Unit will allege that the man stole the gold between February 8 and 9 while working at a gold mine near Laverton, north of Kalgoorlie.

Some of the gold recovered by police. Credit:WA police

Police said he sold a portion of gold and kept the rest - and when police raided his home in the Kalgoorlie suburb of Lamington on May 11, it's alleged a large sum of money and the remaining gold was discovered.

The man has been charged with stealing as a servant and gains benefit by fraud and will appear before the Kalgoorlie Magistrates Court on May 29.