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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1865

4 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Our Gold Field. (To the Editor of the Manning River News.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 2 September 1865 · page 3

SIR,—In g late issue of the NEWS, I read a letter signed S. E. .D., entitled, “The Goose that lay Golden Eggs.” Allusion is made in that article to a party which visited the…

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Another Gold Field. (From the Maitland Mercury.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 14 October 1865 · page 4

Yesterday afternoon we received from our Singleton correspondent a report which we give below, of the discovery of gold on some of the head waters of the Hunter, flowing…

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Gold Fields. (To the Editor of the Manning River News.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 October 1865 · page 3

SIR,—I noticed in your last paper that a party from the Lower Manning had been out in some of the mountains on the Lan[?]down in search of gold—a scarce article, I presume,…

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Scientific Extracts. a Lecture on the Geology of Gold Fields. From the Armidale Telegraph

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 23 December 1865 · page 4

DR. BURHN commenced his lecture by observing that all geologists agree that the earth, at its first creation, was in an incandescent state, or similar to a fiery ball, the surface of…

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