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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1897

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Mining Notes. Coramba

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 18 September 1897 · page 5

From good authority, it transpires that the total quantity of stone from, which the recent Coramba King return was got, is 70 tons. Taking the recent return published in the…

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Mining Notes. Coramba

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 21 September 1897 · page 8

Work at the Beacon is going on much as usual, and the battery going night and day. On the Reward reef, they are still working the stopes in No. 10 (the tunnel) level, and…

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Gold Rushes. The Past Half Century

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 21 September 1897 · page 3

The recent rush to the gold diggings on the Klondike Creek in the Yukon Valley calls to mind some noteworthy movements of the same…

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Miners and Geology. "The Australian Mining Standars"

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 September 1897 · page 3

The vast,advance made in mining, both in the applications for the recovery of gold from its refractory matrices, and utilising the different…

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Mining Notes. Coramba

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 September 1897 · page 5

At the Record Reign, formerly known as the Homeward Bound, ten men are at work. The property is owned by a Glen Innes company who took over the lease some time…

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The Klondyke Gold Fields. How to Get There.—outfit and Expense. Life Among the Miners

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 3

A correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle writes:—Interest in the new El Dorado shows no sign of abatement; on the contrary, it…

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Mining Notes. Lower Bucca

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 8

The report of Lower Bucca for the past year can scarcely be regarded under the heading of satisfactory. It is, in fact, one to be rather ashamed of, for now it is the…

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Gold. (From "The Scotsman.")

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 19 October 1897 · page 2

By the universal consent of mankind in all ages, gold has held the position of the king of metals, and there seems little probability that it will…

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A Mining Experience

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 19 October 1897 · page 2

In a remote corner of the West, hidden away in the mountains, is a little village whore the chief occupation or the people—men,…

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Money and Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 October 1897 · page 5

In their monthly Share List compiled to 19th October, Messrs. Joseph Palmer and Sons report:—The Government is about to renew the issue of funded stock 3 per cent, at par…

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Mining Notes. Coramba

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 October 1897 · page 5

There has been some considerable excitemen through, the district caused by the sensational reports, of the new find of Pont's, and after hearing all the news about it, it was…

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The Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays. the Lucknow Strike. the Minister of Mines' Big Blunder

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 October 1897 · page 4

Mr. Sydney Smith, by his ill-judged interference in the Lucknow strike, has Precipitated himself into a sea of trouble. In all the records of labour strife there will…

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Geology of the Klondyke. (From the "Mining Standard.")

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 2 November 1897 · page 2

"Little is known about the geology of the Yukon River," writes Prof. G. F. Wright, of Oberlin College, "where the Klondyke mines have…

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The Clarence Examiner. Published at Grafton, Tuesdays and Saturdays. Australasian Mining Conditions A General Comparison. (From the Australian Mining Standard.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 2 November 1897 · page 2

Referring to the subject treated of in our leading columns, the following precis of the mining conditions operating in the Australasian…

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Deputation Re Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 November 1897 · page 4

A very influential deputation waited upon Mr. Sydney Smith in Thursday, for the purpose of bringing under his notice very serious defeots in the mining laws, and…

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Mining "Gossip." Coramba

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 November 1897 · page 8

"Pont has found a new reef somewhere near Nana Glen, at the back of Tom Jarrett's. It is the beet thing yet opened in the district. It is fully two feet wide and…

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The Premier and the Mining Industry. the Position of English Capitalists. Their Local Representatives Indignant. [Daily Thelegraph's Mining Reporter.]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 November 1897 · page 3

There are in Sydney several gentlemen who represent English and Continental companies interested in mines, in Now south Wales. They…

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Reid on Mining—miners on Reid

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 16 November 1897 · page 4

The present writer once asked a trainer of performing dogs what were his methods. "Salt and sugar, but rather more salt than sugar," he replied. He called a dog. "Toby,…

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Mining Notes. Security of Mining Tenures Discussion by the Chamber of Mines

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 November 1897 · page 2

Mr. Warnford Lock, speaking at the Chamber of Mines meeting in Sydney last week, expressed a high opinion as to the mineral wealth of New South Wales. "It is an incontrovertible fact," he…

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The Kalgoorlie Gold Fields

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 November 1897 · page 4

The report of our Government Geologist, Mr. Pittman, on the Kalgoorle gold-fields is very satisfactory reading. Mr. Pittman is confident that there is a great future before…

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