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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1897

89 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 5

Political and Social. the Coal Conference

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 12 June 1897 · page 4

The effort of the miners in the Newcastle district to get the colliery proprietors to meet them in conference was successful, but the object they had in view in having the…

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Mining Notes. Coramba

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 15 June 1897 · page 5

Rain fe[?] on Monday and Tuesday, and yesterday it set in again, raining all night. On the Coff's Harbour road Bischoff and party are working the Mount Bischoff. At…

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Mining Notes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 22 June 1897 · page 5

MR. EDITOR.—In your issue of the 15th, under the above heading, the writer deals pretty severely with the shareholders of Mount Aylin. Now, siv, the facts are these: There are some 14 shareholders in the…

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Mining Division Boundaries

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1897 · page 8

The boundaries of the Grafton Mining Division of the Clarence and Richmond Mining District have been altered, and are generally as under: Commencing at the junction of…

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Mining Notes. Coramba

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1897 · page 5

More rain, and no prospect of it ever stopping again. The roads, as usual, are nothing but bogs; the prevailing impression being that the proper and most effective way of making…

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Mining Notes. Corindi

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 5

At M'Callum's two men have been hard at work, and the shaft has been brought down to 40 feet. In addition to sinking, they have driven along the reef south for 50 feet. In…

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Mining Notes. Lower Bucca

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 July 1897 · page 5

At Lower Bucca there is little to get excited about, everything is quiet, and little but prospecting and dead work is being done. 3¼ tons from Machiavelli and Barbour's…

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The Beacon Mines. Coramba

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 July 1897 · page 5

At the Beacon mines, it is almost unnecessary to say that they have been going ahead in their usual style. Work, for the past month principally, has been confined to…

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Mining Notes. Coramba

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 July 1897 · page 5

At the "Little Nymboi" Messrs Henderson and Stuart have finished overhauling their battery, and have been busy putting through between twenty and thirty tons of stone…

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Mining Notes. Lower Bucca

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 10 August 1897 · page 5

With 866 points of rain tumbling about our ears in 66 hours—the last twenty-four of which has a record of six inches—it can scarcely be necessary to say that baling has…

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Mining Notes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 14 August 1897 · page 3

Baker's Greek, Hillgrove, crushed 522 tons stone for 302ozs. gold: Eleanors, 481 tons for 348ozs.; Sunlight, 400 tons for 287ozs.; West Sunlight, 303 tons for 16ozs…

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Gold-mining and Cyanide

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 17 August 1897 · page 8

Mr. M'Arthur, the inventor of the cyanide process for the extraction of gold, has been giving his views with respect to the future supply of that metal. He points out that…

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The Mount Rea. Gold Mine. Opening of the Battery

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 August 1897 · page 3

The great feature of the past week at the Mann was the smiting of the Mount Rea G.M. Co.'s battery, which important event tonk place on the 12'b, in the presence of a…

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Mining Notes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 August 1897 · page 5

THE BEACON COMPANY.—The following figures with reference to the Benenn goldmine (N.S.W.) were published by the London office:—Taking the actual returns received…

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The Arctic Gold Field

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 August 1897 · page 8

Not since the fifties has there been such a gold rush as that which has recently taken place at Klondyke, on the river Yukon, in Alaska, and the newspapers are full of the…

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Gold From Yulgilbar

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 August 1897 · page 5

We were shown yesterday about 501bs. weight of specimens from No. 2 reef in Penrose's claim. Yulgilbar, taken from the 40ft. level, where the reef is about 18 inches…

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Gold and Grease

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 7 September 1897 · page 3

Some years ago the mint authorities of a certain city noticed that a small amount of gold was missing every day after the coining operations…

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Mining Notes. Coramba

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 7 September 1897 · page 5

THE NEW FIND at Upper Bucca (the Louisa) promises to be a real good thing, one of the best in the district—for the lawyers. Already litigation has commenced, and an injunction…

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The Yugilbar Gold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 11 September 1897 · page 8

Reporting on the Penrose gold-mining lease, Mr. Jas. Fisher says: "I find that upon the spur, in the Hrst place, an open cutting preparatory to driving a level along the course…

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Forty Years Mining in Australia

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 2

I halted at the gute of a pretty bush residence which answered to the description supplied me, and asked of the Iady whom I found enthusiastically gardening, "Does Mr. T. J. Thomas live…

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