Diamond Mine of Sincura. (From the Athenaeum, Nov. 22)
We live in the age and the meridian of the positive. Ours is the region and the period of what, in the jargon of the day, is called great facts. Dreamland…
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Mining & the mines, 1846
5 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
British Extracts. Dreadful Colliery Explosion.— Nearly Forty Lives Lost. (From the Leeds Mercury, Jan. 24.)
On Wednesday morning week, about eight o'clock, an explosion of fire damp took place at Risca Colliery, six miles from Newport, belonging to John Russell Esq. The scenes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Extracts. Australian Mines. (From the Daily News, April 16.)
The accounts recently received in this country of the discovery of large quantities of copper ore of rich quality, in the vicinity of Adelaide, South Australia, and in Van…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colonial News. South Australia. Mining and Smelting Operations
In the last number of the Gazette and Register was published a letter from our old fellow colonist, Mr. Weston, who would appear to have been in communication with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Legislative Council. (From the Sydney Morning Herald, October 17.) Tuesday, October 13, 1846. Coal Monopoly
Mr. GRANT moved—"That the monopoly of coal so long enjoyed by the Australian Agricultural Company, is highly prejudicial to the interests of the colony, and is distinctly…
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