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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1889

105 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 6

Mining Companies

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 3

"WILL HONEYCOMB" writes in the Dubbo Despatch —"Those who are interested in Mining Companies may feel not only amused but instructed by the following. Few who have subscribed to a…

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Mining Companies

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 3

"WILL HONEYCOMB" writes in the Dubbo Despatch —"Those who are interested in Mining Companies may feel not only amused but instructed by the following. Few who have subscribed to a…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1889 · page 3

Coal and Shale.—We are pleased to learn that work has been resumed in the Mylne's Gap coal and shale mine. Messrs. Wilkinson and Slee when inspecting this mine pointed out at least two…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1889 · page 3

Coal and Shale.—We are pleased to learn that work has been resumed in the Mylne's Gap coal and shale mine. Messrs. Wilkinson and Slee when inspecting this mine pointed out at least two…

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Terrible Mining Disaster at Newcastle Thirty Men Entombed

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1889 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—A coal mine has fallen in and entombed a large number of miners between the Glebe and Adamstown, this forenoon. The information obtainable is that the A. A. Co's…

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Terrible Mining Disaster at Newcastle Thirty Men Entombed

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1889 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—A coal mine has fallen in and entombed a large number of miners between the Glebe and Adamstown, this forenoon. The information obtainable is that the A. A. Co's…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 29 June 1889 · page 4

AT the Little Dora reef, Mann River, Taylor's tunnel has been driven about 80 feet. The country is getting hard and of the same character as the main tunnel. The reef is from four to seven inches…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 29 June 1889 · page 4

AT the Little Dora reef, Mann River, Taylor's tunnel has been driven about 80 feet. The country is getting hard and of the same character as the main tunnel. The reef is from four to seven inches…

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Terrible Mining Disaster at Newcastle Can the Entombed Men be Rescued. (From the "Newcastle Call.")

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 29 June 1889 · page 8

ANXIETY is strained to the utmost pitch of human endurance by the awful disaster at the Glebe pit, where eleven miners remain entombed amid the enormous mass of fallen roof, or shut up in open…

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Terrible Mining Disaster at Newcastle Can the Entombed Men be Rescued. (From the "Newcastle Call.")

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 29 June 1889 · page 8

ANXIETY is strained to the utmost pitch of human endurance by the awful disaster at the Glebe pit, where eleven miners remain entombed amid the enormous mass of fallen roof, or shut up in open…

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N. S. Wales Coal Production

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 6

UP to the end of 1886 there had been raised in New South Wales no less than 36,970,364 tons of coal, valued at £18,352, 669. Of this enormous quantity fully four-fifths came…

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N. S. Wales Coal Production

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 6

UP to the end of 1886 there had been raised in New South Wales no less than 36,970,364 tons of coal, valued at £18,352, 669. Of this enormous quantity fully four-fifths came…

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Alleged Rich Gold Reef in the Uralla District

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 23 July 1889 · page 4

GREAT excitement was occasioned in Uralla on Friday, last in consequence of a report that an auriferous quartz reef, the stone from which was studded with gold, had been…

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Alleged Rich Gold Reef in the Uralla District

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 23 July 1889 · page 4

GREAT excitement was occasioned in Uralla on Friday last in consequence of a report that an auriferous quartz reef, the stone from which was studded with gold, had been…

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The South Arm Antimony Mine

North Coast Times · Friday 26 July 1889 · page 3

IN December last the South Arm Antimony Mining Co. shipped 27 bags of stone obtained from their mine, to London, as a trial shipment,…

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Deep Creek Mines

North Coast Times · Friday 2 August 1889 · page 2

THE, following letter from tho South Australian Register should do much to bring the above mines under the notice of mining capitalists in…

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Rich Discoveries of Gold. A Rush to Northern Queensland

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1889 · page 8
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THE recent rich discoveries of gold in conglomerate on the Palmer River, Queensland, have resulted in a rush being made for tunnelling areas. The extent of ground which can be held under this…

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The Colliery Disaster

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 10 August 1889 · page 2
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YOUNG BANFIELD, whose body was recovered on Wednesday in the Griebe mine, was 18 years of age, and was born at Maitland; his father, who was a miner, having died many…

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