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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines
78 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 4
A TERRIBLE fire occurred last night at a house in Dixie-street, Bethnal Green, a woman named Jarvis and her nine children, ranging in age from 16 years to eight months, losing their lives. Most of the children were suffocated in their sleep…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The official report of the Beacon gold mines (Bucca Creek) shows that for the first 10 months of 1807 4905 tons of stone were crushed for 7646…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE are reliably informed that the sale of the mines by Messrs. Andrews Bros, to a large syndicate is almost completed, the report of the expert sent up to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Czar has a palace just outside of St. Petersburg known as Tsarkoe-Selo, which was built by Catherine the Great. It is of vast extent, and it was plated with gold. It took…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE are reliably informed that Mr. C. Lavender and party, who have been working at the Lower Cells (which is situated about six miles from Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters received from New York indicate that an immense rush has started in the United States for Klondike and the Yukon goldfields…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. CROYDON, manager of the above mine, informs us that at the first crushing, after completion of dead work, from the 200ft. level, the returns were, from 47 tons of stone, treated at the mine's mill, 8½ lbs. of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The export of gold from West Australia for January was the highest on record. It amounted to £354,000. A new creamery has been established…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An Oxford-street poulterer yesterday discovered over a quarter of an ounce of gold in the gizzard of some Manning River ducks he was cleaning…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →AT midnight on Sunday, during the gale, 500ft. of the Bellambi Jetty was carried away, together with twenty-seven seven-ton coal waggons, winch and donkey engine. The jetty was built in 1889,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous colliery explosion has taken place at Bochume, Prussia. The bodies of 78 dead have been recovered from the mine, and 46 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DISASTROUS colliery explosion hau taken place at Bochume, a town in Prussia, 35 miles from Dusseldorf. Fifty-three miners were killed and 30 were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FURTHER details of the colliery disaster at Bochum, in Prussia, show that 78 miners were killed by the explosion, and that 46 men, some terribly injured, have been brought to the surface. Upwards of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE steamer Clara Nevada, bound for Seattle, has foundered off the Alaskan coast The passengers were mostly miners returning from the Yukon gold fields…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SENSATIONALLY rich leader was struck in the southern drive in the Curreeki Mine, Coolongolook, on Thursday evening, Feb. 17. The stone is described as the best that ever…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Some time ago I met with a most ludicrous adventure while delivering coal at a private lunatic asylum just outside Dublin. Having been admitted by the lodge-keeper, I led my…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OWING to an explosion at the Dudley Colliery, Newcastle, castle morning, 14 men were entombed in the workings. Owing to the strong fumes arising, the work of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five more bodies were recovered at at the Dudley mine this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE search for the bodies of the victims to the explosion at the Dudley Colliery, Newcastle, continues under very great difficulties. Search parties…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Dudley colliery, Newcastle, was early on Monday morning, the scene, of one of the most appalling mining catastrophes that has ever taken place in the colony…
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