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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1861

6 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Clarence River Goldfields

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 21 May 1861 · page 2

THE accounts from these diggings still continue very favourable. A party just returned from there visited our office during the past week, and laid…

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Our Gold Fields

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1861 · page 2

NEW RUSH.—From our late advices, we learn that the New Rush, or Smith-field Diggings, is still progressing most favourably, the population, receiving…

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Our Gold-fields

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1861 · page 2

THE report, which we stated in our last issue, with reference to a new goldfield being discovered at Cangi, turns out to be correct. A corespondent,…

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Cangi Gold-fields

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1861 · page 2

ACCORDING to promise [?] write you by this post. The Ca[?] [?]ggings are still yielding well, and [?]arties are making their £4 and £5 per week,…

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Gold Prospecting Fund. to the Editor of the Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1861 · page 3

SIR,—Some few months since a meeting was convened by the storekeepers and publicans upon the Tableland, for the purpose of considering the advisability of furnishing parties with the means…

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Our Gold-fields. [From Our Correspondent.]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 September 1861 · page 2

CANGI diggings are now being worked, and its auriferous treasures beginning to be developed. The miners at work there are very sanguine of success. At present they are engaged in cutting…

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