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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines
80 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 4
AN important discovery ol gold has been made at Sitka, Alaska, where a lake has been drained, with the result that the gravel bottom yielded a return of twenty dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold was discovered in California in 1848, and in Colorado in 1858. The discover was accidental in both cases, and the fact created the impression that mines were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A party prospecting for gold at Kiwarrack, Gloucester and Manning Road, struck good stuff at a depth of 16 feet. Specks of gold are plainly visible in the stuff. It has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FORTUNE-HUNTING is one of the keen businesses in Australian life. Perhaps the term fortune-hunting may with more force be applied to a generation that is passing…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A PARTY of three or four men are mining for gold at Kiwarrack, and Lave a shaft down about 18ft. The operations are, it is stated, being carried on under directions received at spiritualistic seances…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold was discovered in California in 1848, and in Colorado in 1858. The discovery was accidental in both cases, and the fact created the impression that mines were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two miners named Samuel Hill and George Guest were crushed to death at Bendigo yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is deep mine in Sweden (says the author of the Rob Roy in the Baltic") very celebrated for it ore, which is said to be the best in the world, and is all brought to England…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is a deep mine in Sweden (says the author of the "Rob Roy in the Baltio") very celebrated for its are, which is said to be the best in the world, and is all brought to England…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In "The Land of gold; the narrative of a journey through the West Australian Goldfields," Mr. Julius M. Price gives some graphic skctches of scenes and incidents of Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In "The Land of gold; the nar[?] of a journey through the West Australian Goldfields." Mr. Julios M. Price given some graphic ske[?] of scenes and incidents of Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE surprise of a man who sinks a hole to make a well and strikes a gold mine is no doubt a pleasant one. Such a surprise was held in store for Mrs. Harrison,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The fiftieth anniversary of the finding of gold in California, makes pertinent on account of the accidental discovery which so affected the development of the Anglo-Saxon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AUSTRALIA has increased the world's stock of gold for the year just ended in a quite remarkable degree. The total gold production of the world for 1898 in £55,000,000; and of this amount Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs. Harris and Co. have just finished crushing a 40 ton lot of mixed stone. The result was must disappointing it only going 5 oz 14 dwt— barely…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE are reliably informed that it is the intention of the North Coast Steam Navigation Company to send the Coraki to Newcastle for coal required for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two miners were entombed at Sofala, by a mining accident, on Wednesday night. The bodies were recovered and went to show…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sensational affair occurred on the road between Kalgoorlie and Boulder, Western Australia. Mr. Mortimer, paymaster of the Lake view consols…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BY the steamer W[?]oo, which arrived on Tuesday from V[?]ver, were received copies of the "Victoria Daily Times," [?] in British Columbia. Referring to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CaptaiN E. Moss, who has just returned from the Transvaal, tells the story of the monkeys who work for him in the mines : "I have twenty-four monkeys," said he,…
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