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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

46 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 3

Coal at Cremorne

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 November 1893 · page 4

FOLLOWING on the discovery of a valuable coal seem at Germorne, between Neutral and Mossman's Bay, the Mines Department has been inundated with applications for lane…

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Mining at Port Macquarie

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 November 1893 · page 4

FOR many years the question of Port Macquarie being regarded as a good mineral field has been settled in the minds of most of the residents, in the negative. Several…

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The Coal Strike. London

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 22 November 1893 · page 4

Much satisfaction is expressed at the termination of the great coal strike. The terms of the settlement are that the miners shall resume at…

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Gold Rush. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 6 December 1893 · page 7

A gold rush has taken place to Burragorang 54 miles from Sydney on the Southern line. There are now over 1000 person on the ground. It is…

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Fairy Gold

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 7

"Once on a time," the stories say, The wee green elves would often cast, Bright heaps of gold in mortals' way; But fairy gold would never last…

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The Northern Collieries. NEWCASTLE

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 4

Great uneasiness prevails in the district, and there is every prospect of a serious and prolonged strike if a section of the proprietors who met in Sydney insist upon the men…

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