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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

83 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 5

Pa's Pipe and Mine

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 2 January 1903 · page 2

Sometimes, just [?]fore I go up to bed. My pa says to me with a smile, "Well, what do you say To a half-hour's paly ?…

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Warning to Miners

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 8

Mr. Editor,—Permit me to give a few words of warning to miners and others who may be led by rumor to believe that work is plentiful at Howell, near Inverell. Last…

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Mammoth Iron Mines

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 3

THE mines of the Like Superior region, which have mainly supplied the iron that has made the fortunes of Mr. Carneg[?], and apparently of inexhaustible extent. The are is being got out of…

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Practical Dredging for Gold

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 4

SPEAKING of dredging for cold on the west coast of America, the SCIENTIFIC and MINING PRESS (San Francisco) says:—"About six years ago gold dredging on this coast was made a…

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A New Mining Township

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

The Crown lands sale of allotments, comprising the site of the new colliery township of Kurri, Kurri, in the heart of the South Maitland coalfields, was held on…

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Coal for America

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 19 January 1903 · page 1

Sixty British steamers, many of them 10,000 tons register, have been chartered to take coal to the United States…

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Mining Accidents

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 19 January 1903 · page 1

Through the cage bolting while being drawn up the shaft of the Brilliant Central Mine at Charters' Towers, six men were seriously…

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Grains of Gold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 January 1903 · page 7

He that will not be counselled cannot be helped. The troubles of to-day are easily borne; it is the troubles we anticipate that crush…

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Coal Trust Forming

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1903 · page 1

The Welsh anthracite collieries are combining with a capital of four millions sterling…

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Grains of Gold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 7

Calamity never leaves us whare it finds us; it either softens or hardens the heart of its victim. She who is not aware of her ignorance…

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Special Notes for Special Readers. the Taint on the Mining Industry

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 3

Equally with agriculture mining is a staple industry of Australasia. Why, therefore, is it tainted with a hundred and one disadvantages that give to it the color of a…

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The Coal Production of Europe

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1903 · page 8

The retailing of coal at a farthing a pound in New York owing to the great American coal strike, has led to some interesting compurisions in regard to the coal production of…

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Gold Rush Broke Out

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 February 1903 · page 1

Owing to the discovery of alluvial gold at Blackgate, near Gundagai, a rush has set in…

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Grazing Rights for Mining Prospectors

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 March 1903 · page 4

In reply to a suggestion that provision be made in the new proposed Mining Act for grazing rights for prospectors, Mr. D. B. Hamilton, of Grafton, has been informed by the…

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Gold at Byron Bay

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 6 March 1903 · page 8

A CONTRIBUTOR to a Sydney paper writes:—Hammond and Begg are apparently doing well in the black sand near Cape Byron, although…

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Cangai Copper Mine

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1903 · page 5

A trial shipment of 10½ tons of copper are sent from Kritsch and party's Cangai mine to be treated at the Dapto smelting works, has given a yield of 20 per cent…

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The Centralia Goldfield

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 14 March 1903 · page 4

The new goldfield at Arltunga has sprung into fame at a moment's notice. In regard to public interest, it just now dwarfs, if it doesn't exclude, every other field in…

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Clarence Quicksilver Mines

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1903 · page 3

THE production of quicktlve[?] on a commercial sale for the first in Australia is now apparently almost an accomplished fact. The erection of the Great Australian Qlicksilver…

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Gold Bearing Reefs

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 17 March 1903 · page 3

Some weeks ago what was said to be a rich find of gold was reported from the Gladstone district. A party of men were prospecting the Dawes Rang[?] in…

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Mining at Drake

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 17 March 1903 · page 4

A correspondent writes to the "Evening News[?] Herewith is a resume of the past year's operations in mining on this field. I am pleased to say that, notwithstanding the many difficulties…

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