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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1857

8 stories in Murray's papers

Gold in Torres Straits. To Ike Editor of the Adelaide Observer

The Border Post · Saturday 10 January 1857 · page 1

Sir,—In your issue of the 6th September last you published a miscellaneous shipping paragraph to the effect that the ship Wessington had picked up the chief officer and…

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The Hurray Gold-field

The Border Post · Saturday 14 March 1857 · page 2

NOTWITHSTANDING the rowdyism, the dislocation of society, and the many other concomitant evils inseparable from gold discoveries, people have…

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Mining in Cornwall and Victoria Compared

The Border Post · Saturday 21 March 1857 · page 4

The mining districts of Cornwall have always been [?] the most famous in the world, and the immense yield of metals and internals, from that…

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Mining in Corn Wade and Victoria Compared

The Border Post · Saturday 28 March 1857 · page 2

The mining districts of Cornwall have always been [?] the made famous in the world, and the immense yield of metals and minerals from that…

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Gold Discoveries

The Border Post · Saturday 23 May 1857 · page 2

OCR citizens have at length bestirred themselves into raising a reward fund for the discovery of a gold-field within a radius of fifteen miles from Albury. The…

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New Gold-field Near Bombala

The Border Post · Saturday 25 July 1857 · page 3

The “Sydney Herald” says, have received the following from Mr A. G. Flavelle, [?] Bombala, dated 8th July:—For the past few days our…

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Curious Loss of Gold

The Border Post · Saturday 28 November 1857 · page 3

We give the following as an illustration of the old adage, “Mony micklea make a muckle,” We have often undiscovered to impress upon the raining…

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Our Gold Field

The Border Post · Saturday 19 December 1857 · page 2

THERE appears some probability that the reward fond for the discovery of a workable gold-field in the vicinity of Albury will, at no distant date, be claimed. Mr…

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