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Mining & the mines, 1883

10 stories in New England's papers

The Turarua Gold Robbery

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1883 · page 3

[?] Thursday gives the following particulars, from Adelaide, of the discovery of two more of the gold ingots stolen from the Tararua:—…

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Pastoral, Agricultural, and Mining Association of Central New England. Glen Innes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1883 · page 2

[?] He felt he was addressing intelligent men, and as such they were aware what his Government had done. He had been instrumental in passing several important measures, but had succeeded in doing…

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First Piano in the Mining Camp

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1883 · page 3

IT was Christmas Eve in a California mining town in 1858, and Goskin, according to his custom, had decorated his gambling house with sprigs of mountain cedar, and a shrub whose…

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Tales and Sketches. First Piano in the Mining Camp

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 July 1883 · page 2

IT was Christmas Eve in a California mining town in 1858, and Goskin, according to his custom, had decorated his gambling house with sprigs of mountain cedar, and…

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[?]ales and Sketches. That Wtfe of Mine

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1883 · page 2

"ARE you sick?" It was the soft voice of a young girl asked this, and as I heard the words, half in a dream, I opened my heavy eyes and…

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Gold in Ancient Times

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1883 · page 4

GOLD was in excess in ancient times, and mostly taken from the rivers in Asia. The fables of Pactclous, of the golden fleece of the Argonauts, of the gold from Ophir, the history of King Midas,…

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The Eleanora Gold Mining Company

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 31 August 1883 · page 2

THE other day we availed ourselves of the opportunity of paying the Eleanora Gold Mining Company's reef at Hillgrove Falls a short visit, and were pleased to find the…

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Fool's Gold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 September 1883 · page 4

A WELL-KNOWN American mineralogist gives some amusing facts respecting the mistakes that are constantly being made by people who come to him with what…

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Terrible Mining Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 October 1883 · page 5

AN accident, terrible in its consequences, occurred on August 15, at Wheal Agar Mine, which is situated in the great mining district between Camborne and…

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Local & General News. Eleanora Gold Mine

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 December 1883 · page 2

Had the day commenced more auspiciously there would, without doubt, have been a good many more than there were out at Hillgrove on Wednesday to…

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