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Mining & the mines, 1876

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The Price of Coal and Coal Returns

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 November 1876 · page 4

A SOMEWHAT important correction of some departmental figures has been made by Mr John Biggar, the secretary to the movement of the Illawarra people for the construction of a…

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The New Gold-field at Brookong

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 November 1876 · page 3

We (Echo) have been favoured by the Minister for Mines with the following report respecting the discovery of a new gold-field at Brookong:…

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[?]land Mercury. [?]Day, December 2, 1876. [?]ge of Sotting Fire to a Coal Mine

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 2 December 1876 · page 4

At the Esst Maitland police court yesterday, before Messrs. Addison, P.M., Eckford, and Bartlett, J.'sP,, Robert Taylor answered to summons and was charged with having about two months ago…

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Tasmanian Tin Mining

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 28 December 1876 · page 2

The Melbourne Argua of Dec 16 says:- Highly satisfactory news has reached the Melbourne shareholders in the Mount Bischoff Tinmining Company, Tasmania. The output in…

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