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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines
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THE arid, stony waste lying between Melbourne and Sunbury presented an animated sight during the years 1859-60. The great…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mineral fuel is the foundation of modern civilisation. The modern spirit, the genius of the nineteenth century, rises from the coal pit. From the misery and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Judging by the satisfactory returns already received from the silver lode discovered by Mr. Angus McKay, at Bald Hill, Warrell Creek, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Petroleum residue is now used as fuel for the locomotives on thirteen per cent, of the Russian railroads. It is required that the oil be of a greenish colour,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Petroleum residue is now used as fuel for the locomotives on thirteen per cent. of the Russian railroads. It is required that the oil be of a greenish colour…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I am directed to inform you that in view of the recommendation of the Prospecting Board, the Secretary for Mines and Agriculture has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—I am directed to inform you that in view of the recommendation of the Prospecting Board, the Secretary for Mines and Agriculture has approved of the following grant from the Prospecting Vote…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It is more than probable that most people will plead ignorance respecting the personality of Mr. Philip James Bailey, who completes his eighty-fifth birthday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is more than probable that most people will plead ignorance respecting the personality of Mr. Philip James Bailey, who completes his eighty-fifth birthday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. H. Harding writes to the Examiner as follows: Referring to the statement that coal has been found some distance south of Grafton, it may…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A SENSATIONAL gold robbery of £70,000, in bar gold, has been made from a California mine. The thieves tunnelled for 350 feet, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A machine has been recently built which has had some success in harnessing the rays of the sun and making them work a steam engine. A huge "sun…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Hon. E. A. T. Pery, Mining Warden, proposes visiting Beech wood early next month, where a find of silver has recently been made. The discovery was made by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A visit was made on Saturday last to the Carrai Tim Mines by the Hon. E. A. Pery, as Mining Warden, acting on instructions from Sydney. The track over portions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A visit was made on Saturday last to the Carrai Tin Mines by the Hon. E. A. T. Pery, as Mining Warden, acting on instructions from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fourteen collieries have been buried in Fifeshire owing to the moorland subsiding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With the exception of the diamond, emerald, turquoise, and opal, almost every precious and semiprecious stone is found in Ceylon, and frequently a great variety…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A newly-discovered mineral, which is of a lustrous black colour, and which as a fuel surpasses coal and all other substances heretofore known, is found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A newly-discovered mineral, which is of a lustrous black colour, and which as a fuel surpasses coal all other substances heretofore known, is found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Clarence Advocate states that the Cangai copper claims and the reputed marvellous richness of their area hare caused quite a wave of excitement in Grafton's…
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