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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1850

4 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Maitland Mercury. Saturday, February 2, 1850. the Coal Reservations

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 February 1850 · page 2

THE partial coal monopoly enjoyed by the Australian Agricultural Company is at an end. Soon after the subject was last under discussion in the…

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More Mineral Coal—more Mechanical Power. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1850 · page 2

SIR—That kind of work which can be readily performed by machines worked by animals without mental effort, or by natural mechanical means, is not the legitimate employment of…

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Maitland Mercury. Saturday, August 3, 1850. the Coal Trade

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1850 · page 2

THE coal trade of this district, and more particularly of Newcastle, is evidently fast swelling into importance. The demand for export has of late increased…

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California. Result of the Mining Season. (From the California Picayune, Oct. 16.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1850 · page 3

We consider every fact connected with the progress and modes of the development of the mines, as invested with the greatest interest to the community. The present prosperity of every branch of industry and…

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