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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1871

9 stories in New England's papers

Appeal Cases on the Gold Fields

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 4

"QUARTZ" sends the following to the 'Mercantile Advertiser':—The miners as a body certainly take things easily. It is in a great measure…

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Colonial Extracts. a Family Buried by a Landslip at the Thames Gold Field

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1871 · page 4

THE ' Auckland Southern Cross' says:—The heavy rain and gale of Tuesday night in some sort prepared the minds of the public for the receipt of news of…

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Terrible Explosion in a Coal Pit

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 4

A LAMENTABLE coal pit explosion took place on February 24, in the Rhondda Valley, Glamorganshire, a district by no means unknown in the annals of this class…

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An Important Matter to Miners. (To the Editors of the Armidale Express.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 2

GENTLEMEN—Will you be kind enough to insert the following answer I received from Mr. Robert Forster, M.L.A.? My letter was a request to ascertain if gold miners…

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Another Trip to the Tin Mines

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 2 December 1871 · page 2

WE are indebted to one of two gentlemen who together left Armidale, in a buggy, on the 16th November, for the purpose of a visit to different places of interest to the…

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Gold at the Little River

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 2 December 1871 · page 2

MR. GEO. MILLS, who has returned this week from the rush at the Little River has obligingly left at the 'Express' office for inspection, samples of auriferou[?]…

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Correspondence. Mr. Markham's Notes on the Tin Mines. (To the Editors of the Armidale Express.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 2 December 1871 · page 6

GENTLEMEN—I have read with pleasure Mr. Markham's letter on the tin mines, but must protest against some of his statements…

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Report of the Gold Fields Commission

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 4

The long-looked for report of the Royal Commission, appointed on the 6th June, 1870, to enquire into the working of the present Gold Fields' Act and Regulations,…

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Ten Mining in Cornwall

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1871 · page 3

THE following is an abridgment of information contained in a work termed "The Mine," by the Rev. Isaac Taylor and Mrs. London:—…

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