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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1904

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

A Mining Enterprise

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 4

In another column of to-dny's "Examiner" some particulars are given of the progress so far made by the Grafton Copper Mining Co., together with a short history of the…

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Grafton Copper-mining Company

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 4

The above company has recently been registered in Sydney. The property consists of 80 acres, formerly known as the Prospectors and No.1 Cangai. There, are…

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Romances of the Gold-fields

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 2

A story of the young North Shields man who is on his way home from New Zealand with a fortune of £75,000 as the outcome of an accidental…

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Coal Cutting Machines

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 4

The North Bulli Coal Company has given the hewers of coal in its employ notice that at the end of a fortnight their servic[?] will no longer be required, it having…

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Extracting Gold From Sea Water

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 13 December 1904 · page 2

The Byron Bay correspondent of the "Northern Star" writes:— A now and somewhat novel method, of mining is about to be in operation at Broken Head, about 7 miles from this town…

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Greatest Among Gold Mines

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 16 December 1904 · page 2

The greatest gold mines in the world is said to he the Treadwell mine, on Dougas Island, Alaska. Fortune played a shabby trick on its discoverer, for, failing to realise its…

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Richest Gold Country in the World

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1904 · page 3

There seems to be very little doubt that Great Britain will secure the bulk of the trade with Tibet. This, however, is the conclusion arrived at, in the "Monthly…

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Gold From Sea Water

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 23 December 1904 · page 4

THE Tweed Herald thus comments on the experiment shortly to be tried on the Seven Mile Bench south of Ryron Bay, of extracting gold from sea water…

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Cangai Copper Mine

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 4

The last 66 tons are treated at Waratah from the Cangai copper mine, after paying, expenses, gave a return of £1260 An additional 28 tons is at Waratah awaiting…

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