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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

74 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 4

The Coal Trade

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 6 August 1900 · page 3

THE Newcastle miners' delegate board have shown good sense in accepting the compromise suggested by Sir William Lyne, namely, that they should take 2d…

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In Search of Gold. Ploughing Through a Sea of Ice

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 10 August 1900 · page 3

THE stampede of the miners and others who have been carried away by the gold fever to Cape Nome, near Klondyko, where a year ago the rich beach sands were discovered, continues…

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The Coal Trade

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 13 August 1900 · page 4

THE Premier must certainly be congratulated on the success of his efforts to compose the Newcastle labour trouble. His suggestion, which was…

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Corean Mines

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1900 · page 4

WITH reference to the Corean mines some interesting particulars are given by Mr. Morris, of Mr. Jack's party, in a recent letter home. He says:—"The natives extract the ore by…

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Gold Dredging

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 17 August 1900 · page 5

TENTERFIELD COURIER SAYS:—The Clarenco River Gold-dredging Company's first dredge is completed, and work hegins at the Comapny's leases this week. Another dredge is being…

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A Sensational Gold Find. a Seam of Pure Gold

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 20 August 1900 · page 2

IN connection with the sensational find at Messrs. Robinson and Rice's mine, Long Flat Gundagai, nothing was done from Saturday until Thursday, when…

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Their Gold Life Passes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 4

An interesting little document was going the rounds in Parliament House which untimely exposure, has crushed out of existence. Certain members of Parliament,…

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Five Thousand Miles of Gold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 August 1900 · page 3

While everybody in England is still talking and thinking of war, to the exclusion of every other subject, far away at the western tip of the North…

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Colliery Troubles

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 4

The agreement respecting the increased hewing rates to miners in the Newcastle district came into operation on the 1st inst., and one result was a strike at three of the…

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Notes by "Falcon." For the Benefit of Miners

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 4

The "Fleuss" apparatus for artificial breathing is likely to prove of incalculable benefit to miners. Designed to supply the wearer with a factitious but respirable air which…

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Kimberley Diamond Mine

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1900 · page 3

THE organisation of the Diamond Mines at Kimberley, in South Africa, is one of the most remarkable in the world. The whole arrangement seems to move like clock-work,…

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A Monster Miners' Strike. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 17 September 1900 · page 3

The miners in Ponnsy[?]vania have struck for an advance of wages. Fully 100,000 men have gone out…

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When the World's Coal is Gone

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 21 September 1900 · page 6

WE can scarcely hope for now sources of energy to be discovered, says Sir Wm. II. Procce, but there are some existing ones we have not touched yet. When the evil day arrives for our coal…

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Four Barrels of Gold

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 4

ONCE a man of the laboring class who had often wished to be rich was offered all the money he wished for if he would accept, without a murmur, all the troubles and anxieties that wealth usually…

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Copyright. a Daughter of Judah. Part I.—for Lack of Gold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 6

'My heart will break! (), mother, my heart will break!' 'Nonsense, girl! How can you grieve for the loss of Michael Aaron?'…

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Local Interest. Mining News

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT of the South Grafton Clarion states that a big ironstone find at Corindi is causing some excitement locally. The lode is said to be 30ft. wide, is traceable…

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Boom in Coal Mines

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 4

The extraordinary development in the trade in coal, which has never been brisker than it has been during the last six months, has had a marked effect on coal shares. Three…

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Siberian Gold Mines

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 October 1900 · page 8

AN immense nugget of gold, wolfing about 1150 [?]., was recently found in the gold washings of M. Bameleff, at Orsk, in the Government of Orenburg, says the URAL, a journal devoted…

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The mining Industry

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 October 1900 · page 8

In his Budget speech on Thursday evening, the Premier said: In the industrial world the outlook, with the approach of federation, and the likelihood of considerably extending our manufactures,…

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The Greed of Gold, [Complete Story.] [Copyright.]

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 12 October 1900 · page 7

BRUCE GALLOWAY lay just as he had fallon, and the bird life of that wild American…

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