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Mining & the mines, 1871

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Report of the Gold-fields Commission. (From the Empire, Dec. 1.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 6

The long-looked-for report of the Royal Commission, appointed on the 6th June, 1870, to inquire into the working of the present Gold-fields Act and Regulations, and into the best means of securing a…

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The Cobar Copper Mine. (From a correspondent of the S. M. Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 2

I recently had an opportunity of visiting the new Cobar copper mine, near Bourke, in company with Captain Lean, the mining manager, on arrival from Adelaide to take charge of the mine…

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The New Zealand Gold-mining Fever

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1871 · page 3

—A letter from Anckland, dated December 13, gives the following account of the gold mines at the Thames:—" Caledouian shares have receded in consequence of the falling-off in the…

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