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Mining & the mines, 1864

24 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 2

Iron From the Fitzroy Mines

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1864 · page 4

SINCE we reported, a few days since, the arrival of the first samples of iron produced at the Fitzroy mines, several other pieces of pig iron have been received,…

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Mining Extracts

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 September 1864 · page 4

EXPLOSION IN A COAL PIT AT PON[?]—Between seven and eight o'cklock on the night of the 1st inst, an explosion of fire damp took place in the Cwm Glyn Pit, by which one life was…

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The Coal-field of Illawarra, New South Wales

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 28 October 1864 · page 4

The coal-bearing district of Illawarra is a narrow strip of land off the eastern seaboard of New South Wales, situate as the crow fles about fifty miles south of Sydney. It is fenced in on the…

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Colonial Extracts. The Murder of Mr. Mussen on the Western Gold-Eields

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 15 November 1864 · page 4

I now send you all the particulars of the , "Sticking.up" of Mr. Sharpe's store, and the shooting of Mr. Mussen, on the Lower Pyramul. That I might be correct, I rode to the spot, and…

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