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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1870

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The Election for the Northern Gold Fields. Meeting for Mr. Burns

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 2

On Tuesday last, Mr. J. F. Burns called a meeting of the ejectors at the Miners' Institute, Rocky River, when about ope hundred persons responded to the Invitation…

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The Northern Gold Fields

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 2

THE following report on the Northern Gold Fields has been printed as a Parliamentary paper:— The Gold Commissioner, Northern District, to the Under-Secretary for Lands…

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Original Correspondence. to the Gold Miners on the Northern Gold Fields. (Per favour of the 'Armidale Express.') 203, York-street, Sydney, 27th June, 1870

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 2

GENTLEMEN—The vast extent of the Northern Gold Fields, and the scattered nature of the population, render it impossible that all can obtain a personal examination of the few copies of the Victorian Gold…

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How to Detect Gold in Quartz

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 4

The following is an account of a simple method of detecting gold in quartz, discovered by a Mr. Skey, of New Zealand:— The stone, having been thoroughly crushed…

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The Gold Fields Act of Victoria

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1870 · page 4

THE following is the first part of the summary made by Mr. Robert Forster, M.P., and referred to in his letter in our last issue:— Summary of the Gold Fields Act of Victoria, 29 Vic.,…

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The Gold Fields Act of Victoria

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1870 · page 4

THE following are the second and third parts, &c., of the summary made by Mr. Robert Forster, M.P., forming a continuation of what appeared in our last issue…

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The Gold Fields Commission

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 23 July 1870 · page 2

THE 'Empire' says:— The Commission has examined, in Sydney, a large number of able and intelligent witnesses, men of large practical experience on the gold fields of Victoria,…

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The Gold Fields Commission

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 2

WE have much pleasure in being enabled to lay before our readers the following information with reference to the visit of the Gold Fields Commission in the North. It can be depended npon as authentic. We…

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