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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1871

5 stories in Murray's papers

The Gold Fields’ Reserve. [To the Editor of the “Albury Banner.”]

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 2

SIR,—A petition has been forwarded to the Honorable the Minister of Lands, appealing against the opening of the gold-Gold for selection. The petition has been signed by all the influential gentlemen of…

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Gold Near Albury

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 5

The flying rumours about the discovery of a promising reef on the Hawkaview property of Mr J. H. H. Mitchell have at lest resolved themselves into reliable and satisfactory facts, and we have now the pleasure…

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“A Great Sell ” and Unsuccessful Attempt to “Jump” the Wilcannia Copper Mine Claims. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 September 1871 · page 2

Sir, —There are no doubt many sharp (if according to the present law) legal practices by which the bona fide claimants or discoverers of mineral rights, are often deprived of their claims by the…

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Sir Martin Frobisher, the First Englishman Who Fitted Out an Expedition to Seek for the Ore of Gold

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 8 November 1871 · page 4

THIS once celebrated navigator was born near Doncaster, in Yorkshire, and bred from his early youth to a maritime life. He formed a project…

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Important Mining Case

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 11 November 1871 · page 2

At the Tumborumba Police Court on the [?] November, Maban and Others proceeded against Woodward and Others tor trespass upon their [?]pecting claim on the Ournie Reef. Mr W. Langwood,…

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