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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1884

65 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 4

A Mountain of Gold. a Remarkable Discovery

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 December 1884 · page 14

The moat extraordinary discovery known in the whole history of goldmining is the development of Mount Morgan in Queensland. It has been graphically described by writers…

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Valuable Diamond Mine Near Inverell

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 December 1884 · page 20

Mr. P. All well, who has just returned to Inverell from the new Banca diamond mine, Auburn-vale, supplies the Inverell Argus with the following particulars respecting the…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion in Hungary. Buda Pes[?]h, December 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 December 1884 · page 10

A terrible colliery explosion is reported to have occurred at Stey[?]dorp, a manufacturing town in Northern Hungary. Seventy persons, who were in the workings of the mine at the…

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The Johnstone River Goldfield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 25 December 1884 · page 21

The Under-Colonial Secretary of Queensland has received the following telegram from the clerk of petty sessions, Geraldton :—“The find of gold reported at the head of the…

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Our Pardner. a Gold Digger's Story

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 December 1884 · page 2

GUESS we was about an rough a sample of human natur' up at Gubbin's Creek Mining Camp as most any part could show. For profanlty, 'ard work, dirt an' rags we should ha'…

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