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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines
16 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
TIN mining is an industry which, though but in its infancy in the colony, has seen many vicissitudes. The first development of the mines or workings took place at a time…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →OUR Member—Mr.T. BAWDEN—and Mr. T. FISHER, J. P. having shown considerable interest, and expended a large sum in endeavouring to open up a marketable seam of coal in the Clarence district, they last week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Information received from Cooktown, via Townsville, dated Wednesday last, states that the first issue of a new bi-weekly journal has been published. It is called tho COOKTOWN…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MARCH 12TH.—Everyone bad hoped that the New Year would bring a little more regularity in the working of the tin mines, but I am sorry to say it has not been the case. During the first few weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I DO myself the honur to submit my annual report on the condition and prospects of the Northern Goldfield under my especial supervision. 2 As will be seen from the accompanying statistics,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the House of Commons a debate has taken place in reference to the establishment of a protectorate over the Gold Coast. When speaking to this question. Mr. Lowther declared thnt the Government were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the GAZETTE of the 12th instant appears regulations relating to the Mining Board, which include Regulations for the election of and conduct of business by members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Mining Board held its first meeting at the Colonial Secretary's office, on Monday. The members present were the representatives of the electoral district of the Gold-fields South: Lachlan division—Mr. John…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A DEPUTATION, consisting of Messrs Roman, Brown, Sweeny, Eddy, Mongan, Browne, and Burns, members of the Mining Board, waited on the Minister for Mines on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HEAVY finds are reported as having been made at the new rush, Sandy Creek, Palmer River Gold-Fields. Men without horses and three months' rations are useless, and swagsmen stand no chance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE news from the Palmer continues favorable. The alluvial ground is rich and extensive. Reliable accounts represent reefs to be good, and satisfactory wages are made…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Hon. Robert P. Abbott returned to Sydney on Thursday, and entered upon the duties of his office on Friday. The building in which the business of the new department will be carried on is in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWS, from Palmersville to September 10th, has been received. A public meeting comprising representatives of the storekeepers and miners at the principal camps, was held…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE first mining appeal case under the Mining Act of 1874, after passing through the Wa[?]den's Court and the District, has at last stuck fast at the very entr[?]nce to the Supreme Court, through the [?]er inability of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The police effected large seizures of spurious gold in the city of Sydney on Monday. Maddocks has been further remanded on the charge of murderous assault on De Beaker…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Rev. W. B. Clarke, the veteran Sydney, geologist who knew of the existence of gold in New South Wales nearly ten years before the gold fever occurred, was the first to prophecy the…
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