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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1881

28 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 2

The Richest Silver Mine in Australia

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 November 1881 · page 4

MESSRS. KING and Co.'s mine, one mile east of Ravenswood, has been working now on a continuous body of silver ore for fourteen months. The party, when they first discovered the reef…

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Fraudulent Mining Speculators

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 November 1881 · page 5

AT the Central Criminal Court, London, a short time back, Ledra Rollin Reynolds, aged twentynine, described as a bank manager, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour for…

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The Right to Mine Under Reserves

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1881 · page 2

THE Newcastle Daily Herald in an article dealing with the above subject, concludes with the following remarks :--We know of one case where an individual held a permit for 1500…

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The Late Minister for Mines. (From the Echo.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 December 1881 · page 6

MR. Baker has lost his selection, and the inference must be that a majority at Carcoar are of the same mind as the majority in the Assembly. The majority against…

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Mummy Mining

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1881 · page 3

THE recent discovery near Thebes of a bonanza of ancient Egyptians is one of the most important discoveries of the century. Surface indications of mummies and other objects of archaeological…

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Tin Mining in Banca

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1881 · page 5

THE following extract from a work on tinmining, dressing, and smelting in Banca (Straits Settlements), will be interesting and probably instructive to our readers. The paragraph…

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Remarkable Discovery of Gold near Hanging Rock. (From Monday's Echo.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1881 · page 8

THE following letter relative to the dis[?]very of gold near Haging Rock has [?]ed by Mr. Wylan Brown, [?]Naudle to the Minister for…

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Permission to Mine Under Reserves

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 December 1881 · page 4

THE Minister of Mines has issued new regulations, framed to meet objections recently made to the working to the 28th section of the Mining Act of 1874…

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