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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1875

42 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 3

New Mining Powder

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 11 January 1875 · page 3

ON Monday a series of experiments was tried with Messrs. Curtis and Harvey's New Extra Mining Powder, in the presence of a number of mining managers, at the new Powder Magazine,…

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New Coal Mining Works

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1875 · page 3

THE whole of the machinery for the New Wallsend Company has been manufactured in Newcastle, at the establishment of Messrs. J. and A. Rodgers. The machinery is all completed,…

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Fatal Colliery Accident

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1875 · page 3

AN accident happened at the A. A. Co.'s No. 2 Colliery, by which a miner named Joseph Hill lost his life. The unfortunate man was at his usual employment as a miner, when the roof…

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Mining Profits

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 3 February 1875 · page 2

THE "Sofala and Newcastle Gold Mining Company" should be regarded as one of the luckiest of the few gold-mining speculations carried on by companies in which residents of this district…

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New Zealand Coal

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1875 · page 4

SOME time ago we ('Daily Times') stated that Mr. Pollock was sinking a shaft at Green Island, on Mr. King's property, for the discovery of coal. A seam was discovered, but not the main…

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Good News for Tin Miners

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 10 February 1875 · page 3

THE 'Inverell Courier,' says -- "An enterprising (friend of ours, Mr. L. Kennedy, mining on Cope's Creek, informs us that he has very recently sunk a shaft 17 feet deep, that he then…

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Colliery Arbitration

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1875 · page 2

THE 'Herald's' Newcastle correspondent states that the arbitrators in the late colliery dispute between the miners of the A. A. Co.'s new pit at Hamilton and the masters—on…

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A Wall of Gold and Silver

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1875 · page 3

IN California, or rather in its sister State, Nevada, there has been discovered a mass of gold and silver, a region of actual real wealth, before which the wildest stories of the Cortez band, for the most fanciful…

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Gold Mining

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1875 · page 4

IT will be seen (writes the 'Ballarat Star') by an advertisement in another column that the New North Clunes Company has declared a dividend, which will complete the…

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Coal As a Dangerous Cargo

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1875 · page 3

THE New Zealand ' Southern Cross' of the 8th inst., contains the following : -- " Coal, for long voyages, appears to be becoming a more than ordinarily hazardous cargo…

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Remuneration From Literature. Substitute for Coal

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1875 · page 3

A WRITER in one of the November magazines observes : -- You may count upon your fingers all the fortunes that have been made by literature since the days of Scott,…

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The Benefit of Railway Communication to the Tin Mining-industry. From the Border Post and Stan[?] Miner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 23 February 1875 · page 1

WE hear little now-a-days of the benefits accruing to the colony by means of the tin mining iudustry further than the weekly reports of the are transmitted by rail from Warwick to Brisbane, and the slightest…

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Extensive Gold Robbery

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1875 · page 2

NEWS has reached town of one of the most extensive gold robberies that has occurred in the northern districts. It will be remembered by most of our readers an article…

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A Cheap Substitute for Coal

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1875 · page 3

A MR. ISHAM BAGGS has recently patented an invention in England, which bids fair, says the Sydney Mail,' to realise the hopes and dispel the fears that have so long been prevalent in…

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The Gold Found in Australia

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1875 · page 3

THE amount of gold that we have raised (says the Melbourne 'Herald') since that day twenty years ago, When Hargreaves first saw the beautiful "color," is almost…

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The Ohinemure Gold-field-- New Zealand

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 April 1875 · page 2

THE correspondent of the Auckland 'Weekly Herald' states that about four hundred miners were on the ground anxiously waiting the survey of the boundaries…

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Success of Queensland Coal

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 April 1875 · page 3

FURTHER evidences of the advantage likely to accrue to owners of coal properties in Queensland has been afforded through the account sales of 500 tons of coal, shipped to San Francisco…

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The Cooktown Gold-field

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1875 · page 2

THE Cooktown correspondent of the Queenslander' writes:--The subject which at present is creating the greatest excitement is the arrival on Saturday last of two large steamers from the…

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Quartz Mining in India

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1875 · page 3

SPECULATIONS are common as to what would happen to New South Wales, if a spirit of enterprise leading to the development of the coal deposits of India and…

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Mining Board

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 May 1875 · page 3

THE first meeting of the second session of the Mining Board was held at the Colonial Secretary's office, on Monday last. The following representatives were present: --…

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