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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1871

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The Wig an Colliery Explosion

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 4

It is computed that there are now 50,000 gallons of water entering Messrs Pearson and Knowles’s Moss Pits, near Wigan, each hour, the quantity having been increased by…

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Report of the Gold-fields’ Commission

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 2

The long-looked-for report a the Royal Commission, appointed on the 6th June, 1870, to inquire into the workings of tie present Goldfields’ Act and Regulations, aid into the best…

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Report of the Gold-fields' Commission

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 December 1871 · page 4

THE long looked for report of the royal commission, appointed on the 6th June, 1870, to inquire into the working of the present Goldfields Act and Regulations, and into the best…

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The New England Tin-mines

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 13 December 1871 · page 4

NEW England has suddenly been discovered to be possessed of an element of wealth that confirms the propriety of calling that land of promise after the name of Old…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 22 December 1871 · page 2

DECEMBER 18.-- Accidents, fatal and otherwise, have been very frequent here of late. It is now my sad duty to have to record another, which befel James Ewitt, a boy eleven years of age, on…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 December 1871 · page 2

DECEMBER 25.--The heat is extreme, and the bush fires around us are immense. The atmosphere is densely charged with smoke, and this combined with the sultriness which prevails,…

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