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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1899

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Our Mines. Annual Report for 1898

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 September 1899 · page 2

The official report of the colony's mining for the past year has been issued, and from it we extract the following that refer to our local mines…

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Rich Gold Discovery

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 3 October 1899 · page 3

A WIRE from Esperance, W.A., says, that the clean-up at the Lady Mary of 16 tons gave 417 oz. An important development has taken place at the 130ft level in the Lady Mary. The reef…

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The Coal Trade

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 4

When the Newcastle miners agitated last year for an increase in the price of coal they insisted, against the opinion of the employers, that the trade would not suffer if the…

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Gold Field Reserves

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 2

The "Gazette" contains notifications affecting an extensive area of country between Grafton and New England. The following revocations of goldfield reserves have been made; but, generally, the…

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The Romance of Mining

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 9 October 1899 · page 4

THE Coolgardie Prospecting Syndicate was formed on June 1, 1893, in 15 shares, five of which were paid-up, and the remaining ten paid [?]15 each representing a capital…

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The Gold Yield

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 10 October 1899 · page 4

Nothing can be more encouraging to those who are hoping for a return of prosperity in Australia than the statistics representing the yield of gold in the several colonies during…

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Kalgoorlie Mining Trouble. Riots Anticipated. Sydney

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 10 October 1899 · page 3

A GRAVE situation exists in Kalgoorlie. The miners, in defiance of a Supreme Court order, are determined to remove are from certain claims on mining leases…

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Shipment of Gold

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 2

The shipment of gold from Australia to South Africa continues space. Sydney ha already this year exported £266,000 to South Africa; Melbourne, £1,000,000; and Albany, £50,000…

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Coolgardie Mining Syndicate

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 13 October 1899 · page 3

The famous Coolgardie Mining Syndicate came to an end on Tuesday, when it was officially wound up. Though defunct in name, the record of its operations is the world's romance in…

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Suspension of Work on Gold Leases

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 8

Our attention has been directed to an abuse that is liable to occur on goldfields by granting suspension of labour conditions on leases too freely. There are instances where the…

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Another Gold Seizure

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 16 October 1899 · page 3

The Boers have seized another [?]500 worth of gold…

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The Johannesburg Goldfield. Capitalised Value, £200,000,000

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 16 October 1899 · page 4

A WRITER in the ARGUS, who has lived in South Africa, and has been in Victoria and West Australia, makes the following contribution :--…

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A Gold Robbery Planned

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 20 October 1899 · page 4

EVERY fortnight the gold from Wallace's Bethanga mines, consisting of cakes amounting to as high as hundreds of ounces, it brought to Albury by the manager and deposited in the Bank…

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A Mining Case

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 20 October 1899 · page 2

AT Grafton on Monday, before the district Warden, David Pont, of Coramba, applied for three months suspension on one acre, gold lease 3S1, Moonce. Applicant stated he had…

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Gold Dredging Boom. Maclean Residents Interested

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 20 October 1899 · page 5

THE gold dredging boom, of which so much has been heard in this colony of late, has extended to Queensland, and a syndicate in which two Maclean residents are interested has secured some good…

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State Coal Mines

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 October 1899 · page 4

Mr. Edden, M.L.A., has again tabled his notice of motion in favour of the State having mihes of its own for supplying all the coal it requires in connection with the…

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Gold In His Best Cow

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 October 1899 · page 3

Your exceedingly smart man who says, "I don't take any notice of yer writing' fellers," a correspondent writes in "Hoard's Dairyman," "doesn't always know quite as much as he thinks. In…

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Coal Trimmer's Peril. Account of His Rescue

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 3 November 1899 · page 6

SEVERAL narrow escapes from death have been reported in our columns lately—in fact there has been quite an epidemic of events of this nature. To-day we have yet another to record…

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The Hargraves Gold Find

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 4 November 1899 · page 3

Writing anent the discovery of gold in New South Wales by the late Mr. E. H. Hargraves, Mr. August Rudder says—"In the early part of 1849 the dircovery of gold in California occasioned a…

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Mining on the Upper Clarence

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 14 November 1899 · page 8

The S. M. Herald for some time past has been publishing interesting mining reports of the various mineral fields of this colony, and now their special reporter has found his…

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