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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

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Scottish Gold. a Mountain of Money

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 2

Ross-shire, Scotland, is in a ferment of excitement over the discovery, which a touring German geologist has made, of a mountain of rich gold-bearing quartz ten…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 5

A dredging lease of about 50 acres, from Ballina Lighthouse hill to Black Head, has been applied for by Mr. Kirk, the Sydney manager of the Broken Hill Proprietary…

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Gold From Sea Water

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 6

Some little time ago the flotation of a company was announced from London, its object being the extraction of gold from sea water. We now learn that a syndicate…

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Russia's Gold Reserve

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 6

lt is only a short time ago that the Russian Government invited some of the correspondents of certain foreign newspapers stationed in St. Petersburg to inspect its…

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Mining at Solferino

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 3

Wortz and party put through a parcel of eight tons from the Solferino reef for 3oz., 4dwt. gold. A trial crushing of 80 tons taken from the old Lombardy tip yielded…

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Russian Coal Supplies. Cretan Outbreak Degenerating. London

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 5

The House of Commons agreed to the second rending of the Aliens' Bill, restricting the immigration of destitute, diseased or criminal aliens. Mr. Chamberlain said…

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A Mining Fatality. Sydney, Saturday night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 15 May 1905 · page 2

Two miners named James Ferguson and Thomas Pollock, were blown to pieces in the South Mine at Broken Hill this morning…

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Preferred the Gold

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 18 May 1905 · page 8

A conjurer was performing before a country audience, and to make his powers appear more remarkable, he asked for the loan of a sixpenny piece,…

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Mine-owners and Men. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 18 May 1905 · page 4

The mine-owners at Kalgoorlie, in reply to the miners' demands before the Arbitration Court, have put in a claim for an all-round reduction of wages…

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Latest Cables. a Mining Disaster. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 29 May 1905 · page 3

A consulting engineer, the manager, four whites, and several natives have been suffocated in trying to locate a fire in a colliery…

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A Model Mine

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 2

The most novel picee of scientific appar-atus in the equipment of the new Birming-ham University is probably in connection with the mining school under Professor…

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The Price of Gold

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 29 June 1905 · page 4

Several local gold-buyers have written us, re our paragraph on the price of gold in our last issue. The buyers referred to state that standard gold is…

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Latest Cables. a Colliery Disaster. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1905 · page 3

Four hundred and eighty lives have been lost by an explosion in a Russian colliery…

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Gold in Sea Sand

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 4 July 1905 · page 3

Probably the sea shore of Australia does not receive the attention it deserves as a gold-producing area. Some time since I made the the maintance of a hard headed, old Scotchman who…

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Submarine Mines

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 4

Owing to the widespread success that has attended the employment of submarine mines during the Russo-Japanese war, the German naval authorities…

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In the Armchair. How Submarine Mines Are Laid. the Way in Which Harbours Are Protected

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 2

There are many people who imagine that submarine [?] are hole, dug in the bed of the sea by divers nad filled in with explesives which can be "fired somehow or…

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The Gold-Seeker's Chance of Success

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1905 · page 7

There are no statistical returns as to the profit and loss of treasure seeking, but the successful Monte Christo is an unusual type in real life…

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Mining Excitement at Wagga. (Hy MVIi'urmii)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 5

WA O 0'A; Thurmluy.-(Iront oxellomeul prava'J owing tn tho rapid ri HO In (Jumiahjdla hurn from 2 to X.U.,. Wnrdon fllimon reports thnt, tho pi'ospuots of tho sllvorllolcl…

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A Roof of Gold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 August 1905 · page 6

Probably thcro is only ono placo in tho whole world which can boast ot a roof of gold, and that place is n, Hindoo temple at Amritsar, in the Punjab district of India…

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Local Coal

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 3 August 1905 · page 4

A good seam of coal has been discovered at Smith's Creek, Upper Clarence, about ten miles distant from the. Copmanhurst wharf. The coal is of…

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