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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1872

10 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

The Story-Teller. A Pile of Gold

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 20 April 1872 · page 4

MRS. Calcroft, and tier small family, consisting of an only son and daughter, were seated at the table, partaking of their evening repast, when a rapping at the door interrupted…

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Gold Mining at Bishop’s Bridge, Near West Maitland

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 15 June 1872 · page 2

TUESDAY’S Mercury says:—This locality continues to excite a great deal of interest, and the possibility of discovering payable gold there is believed in by many persons, some fine…

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Discovery of Gold Near Tamworth

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 15 June 1872 · page 2

Quite a sensation was created in town during the past week by the rumored discovery of a payable quartz reef on the range east of Tamworth, and only a few miles distant from town…

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Where the Gold Goes

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 22 June 1872 · page 4

IN the reign of Darius, gold was thirteen times more valuable, weight for weight than silver In the time of Plato it was. twelve times more valuable. In that of Julius…

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The Romance of Tin-Mining, To the Editor of the D. D. G[?]

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 August 1872 · page 4

SIR.— Mr. Di[?] reproduced lately a thought of a grand thinker of the olden time that if a man wait patiently, the world is sure to some round to him…

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Mining Ventures

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 14 September 1872 · page 2

ONE WHO WALKS THROUGH THE STREETS of Sydney, or sits at any public dining table in the city, now hears but a single topic discussed. Politics have been…

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A Mining [?]

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 September 1872 · page 4

MANY Years ago I visited the Bendigo goldfields It was a [?] place and harboured men of the most [?] I knew there a middle aged captain of that crack…

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Gold Diggings at Nowendoc

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 September 1872 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT writes to Thursday’s Mercury, as follows :— Whilst Maitland prospectors have been in active search for the precious metals, persons in…

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The Travels of a Gold Pen. (From the Missouri Republican.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 19 October 1872 · page 4

A QUEEN tale about the travels of a gold pen is supplied by the Genessee “ Republic.” It says that a Major Morderwell has for some weeks past suffered from violent irritation…

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Nowendoc Gold Field. (Special report to the Mercury.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 2 November 1872 · page 3

I HAVE occasionally notified the fact of small nuggets having been found at our digging, varying in size from 8 or 10 dwts. to the largest discovered up to the date of my last, weighing…

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