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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1886

31 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 2

Fairfield Goldfields

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1886 · page 8

A GENTLEMAN who has paid a visit to the above fields during the week has kindly placed the following information at our disposal:—With regard to the Prospector's claim, the company having a desire…

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The Report of the Department of Mines

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1886 · page 4

THE annual report of this department for the year 1885 has recently been published, and although late in being issued this does not seem to bo altogether the fault of the Mines Department, for it…

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Fairfield Goldfield

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 12 October 1886 · page 4

OUR correspondent visited the field recently, and will furnish a report in a few days. He writes that the field is quite unlike any of the gold-fields about Grafton, being of an entirely different formation…

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The Kimberley Goldfield

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1886 · page 5

SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.—The steamer Hero has arrived from Cambridge Gulf with 250 returned diggers from Kimberley.—The S. M. Herald's correspondent, writing from…

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The Teetulpa Goldfield

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 23 October 1886 · page 5

ADELAIDE, TUESDAY.—The rush to the Teetulpa goldfield continues. By the early morning train for the north to-day, 110 men left for the scene of operations…

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The Teetu[?]pa Goldfields

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 30 October 1886 · page 8

BY the midday train from Mannahill, on Friday, 22nd, about fifty diggers returned from the Teetulpa goldfields. A number of these were interviewed by press reporters, and gave their experience of the…

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Gold at Sol[?]erino

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 6 November 1886 · page 8

THE news of the gold discovery at Solferino is cheering. Six pounds of the precious metal have been taken from a hole six feet deep by three feet wide. That fact proves that the discovery is a…

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Rich Find of Gold, Solferino. 6lb. Weight of Gold Unearthed

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 6 November 1886 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT writes:—Considerable excitement is aroused in this usually quiet village, by the report of a good find of gold on the Field of Mars, or Slaughteryard Creek. A party of two, of the…

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The Too[?] Goldfields

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1886 · page 8

THE Register's special reporter telegraphs from Teetulpa as follows:—"Payable gold has been struck in Strawbridge's Gully. A digger named Brown brought a nugget to…

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Mining on the Richmond

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1886 · page 3

THE Byron Bay sea beach gold deposits continue to provide employment for a few men who are working at a profit. The gold is fine, and can be met with almost anywhere…

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Fairfield Goldfield

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1886 · page 8

MR. T. W. E. DAVID, B.A., F.G.S., Government geologist, has submitted to the Under-Secretary for Mines s detailed and lengthened report in connection with the…

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