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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
46 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 3
One of the most Instructive portions of the report qresented by Mr. F. N. Wardel, inspector for Yorkshire, i[?] that relation to the closing of collieries in that county since 1874. The list is all the more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An interesting and important series of experiments has just been made at the Wharncliffe Silkstone Collieries, near Sheffield. These collieries are among the largest in South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →C[?]pt. Barton, the celebr[?]ed traveller, has reported that almost illimitable gold can be obtained at the Gold Coast, Africa, a district which has been auriferously prolific for centuries. He says the region…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrible catastrophe has occurred in a mine. At the Australasian company's mine, two miles from Creswick, at half-past five on Tuesday morning the men engaged in one of the drives, unexpectedly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?]27 unfortunate miners who are [?]ine of the New Australasian [?]still remains a matter of un[?] very faint hope is now…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →All the men were found alive this morning in the flooded mine at Creswick, Victoria. Thursday, 4.40 p.m. Later news states that at first it was thought that…
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