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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

161 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 9

Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 July 1896 · page 4

The latest report from M'Auley's lead gold diggings states that the claims will be worked out in three months. The latest cleaning up results are:—M'Auley Brothers,…

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Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 1 August 1896 · page 4

THE Daily Telegraph's second article on the Mining Industry in N.S.W. contains some very applicable comments on the cause of the industry not finding better favour with…

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Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 August 1896 · page 4

MR. THOS. R. O'GRADY, a gentleman well known on the Clarence in connection with mining, writes:—"I have seen the use of the diamond drill advocated for testing reefs…

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"Gold's the Thing."

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 August 1896 · page 6

I FANCY lam about as well able to take care of myself-os any man in town, and many are the yarns of my struggling days that I can tell in the…

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Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 August 1896 · page 4

MINING in the Bathurst district is carried on under a system of working quite unknown to the Clarence. The latest undertaking is a company formed in London to work 264 acres…

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Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 August 1896 · page 5

AN official report from Drake states that during the past week there has not been anything of a sensational nature to chronicle, although there is a good deal of activity…

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Up-river Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 August 1896 · page 5

TAKING a stroll round the upper portions and tributaries of the Clarence, one is struck with the comparatively large number of men getting a living by working up the sand on…

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Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1896 · page 5

THE holders in Victoria of the patent rights in the cyanide process of extracting fine gold from ore, are determined to fight to the bitter end, and, have decided that should the…

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Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 August 1896 · page 4

THAT mining in this country is in a progressive condition is well-known to everybody who has taken an interest in the industry, and it is the opinion of those persons who…

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The Mines at Coramba, Bucca Creek and Corinda

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 August 1896 · page 5

A CORRESPONDENT writes to the T. AND C. JOURNAL:—It is probably not generally known that an extensive area of country lying between Goff's Harbour and…

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The Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays. Mining Development

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 August 1896 · page 4

ACCORDING to the Minister for Mines, there is strong evidence of revival in the mining industry throughout the colony, A large amount of work is cast upon the Mining…

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Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 August 1896 · page 3

THE recent gold linds near Oakleigh have brought to light the fact that the parish of Mulgrave is in the St. Andrew's division of the Castlemaine district. Oakleigh is ten…

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Mining News. Deep Sinking for Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 August 1896 · page 4

MR. EDITOR.—The diamond drill has on more than one occasion lately been advocated through your columns as worthy of being employed in experimenting on the value in…

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The Catterthun Gold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 August 1896 · page 4

CONTRARY to general expectation, the insurance companies have recovered the greater part of the coined gold that went to the hot tom of the sea in the ill-fathed Catterthun…

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The Catterthun Gold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 August 1896 · page 8

FOR the special recovery of the treasures in the Catterthun, two diving dresses of exceptional quality were obtained from Heincke, of London. The tank in which…

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Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 August 1896 · page 5

THE mining reporter of the Daily Telegraph writing on the Adelong gold-field, adversely comments on the manner in which the Prospecting Vote is applied on that field…

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The New Mining Act

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 August 1896 · page 8

THE bill received from the Legislative Council and passed in the Assembly, for amending the law, or, rather, for reducing to plain terms the unintelligible jargon of laws…

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Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 August 1896 · page 5

CLARENCE-NEW ENGLAND GOLDFIELDS.— Of late there have been several mining speculators, and the inevitable mining expert, on this field, all with the professed intention…

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A Coal Ring

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 September 1896 · page 4

ALTHOUGH the Newcastle coal-miners get less now for hewing coal than they did before the strike, yet the price of coal in Sydney is higher now than it was then. The…

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Mining News

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 September 1896 · page 5

THE COBAR COPPER MINE. — Some years ago the mine owned by the Great Cobar Copper Mining Co. was a splendid properly but the price of copper having fallen by…

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