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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1862

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The Northern Gold-fields

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 December 1862 · page 2

There is no news of any importance from the Rocky River where the scarcity of water has almost brought mining intelligence to a stand-still. No intelligence has reached Sydney for some time past…

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Our Gold Fields. (From the Herald's Mail Summary.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 December 1862 · page 2

The amount of gold sent down by escort bar gradually fallen off during the last, five weeks, until thereturn for this month assumes a figure utterly dispropartioned to the amount of preceding months. This hat been…

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Mr. Winship and the Burra Miners. (From the Adelaide Observa, Dec. 1[?].9)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 December 1862 · page 2

A short time since Mr. J. B. Winship, the agent of the Australian Agricultural and Coal Company in New South Wales, paid a visit to South Australia for the purpose ot procuring miners to work the Company's coal mines at Newcastle. Mr…

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