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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1860

10 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Gold Escort Meetings

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1860 · page 3

ON Wednesday evening last a preliminary meeting was held, at the National School[?] to take into consideration the recent withdrawal of the Gold…

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The Clarence River Gold Fields. Timbarra Diggings. (From the Herald's Correspondent.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 10 January 1860 · page 2

CHRISTMAS EVE.—The Christmas holidays commenced with us early, this week, and are likely to be continued for another fortnight. Diggers enjoy…

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Recovery of the Gold by Divers From the Wregk of the Royal Charter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1860 · page 4

It was not till the divers succeeded lifting the starboard side of the quarter of the ship off the spot where it had fallen that they came to the gold. The…

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Clarence River Gold Fields. Tooloom. [From Our Correspondent.]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1860 · page 2

THE yield of gold on these diggings continues about the same, and, on the whole, affairs may be reported as prosperous; all parties regularly engaged in mining are doing well, and the…

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Clarence River Gold Fields. Tableland, Timbarra. [From Our Correspondent.]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1860 · page 2

THINGS continue quiet on the various diggings. Numbers have left for the Snowy, but many are on their way back. The last escort took down about 600 ounces, but large quantities now find…

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Gold Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1860 · page 2

BY the latest accounts from Kiandra, a good deal of ice had formed there. Most of the parties had returned from the rush at the head of the tumut. The…

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Clarence River Gold Fields. Nymboida

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1860 · page 2

A GENTLEMAN who arrived from Nymboida last week states that the party at work there is doing very welly and intend sticking to it. The gold…

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A Cure for the Snowy River Gold Fever

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1860 · page 3

TO the Editors of the Armidale Express GENTLEMEN.—Knowing that you are always ready to insert anything in your valuable ready to insert anything in your…

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The Northern Gold Fields. (From the Armidale Express.) the Rocky River

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1860 · page 4

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] LORD Chathaul said that "When a man had nothing to say, he had better say nothing." Thinking to act upon…

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The Clarence River Goldfields

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 6 November 1860 · page 2

THE late Escort returns from Tooloom, Pretty Gully, Timbarra, and the other Gold-fields on the head waters of the Clarence, conclusively attest to the…

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