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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1892

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Gold Mines and Gold-mining Companies in the Dalmorten District

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 November 1892 · page 4

ADJOINING the Marvel on the south, and higher up the hill, are the lands of the Mount Poole G.M. Co. This land was secured immediately after the discovery of the Marvel,…

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The Miner. Glen Elgin Gold Mines

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 November 1892 · page 2

A HASTY glance at foe gold reefs show that some real good work is being done, and results are being anxiously awaited. At the Glen Elgin mine work is progressing favorably, and…

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Gold in Soot

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 November 1892 · page 4

"HAS gold ever been extracted from soot?' An exchange replies :--£70 worth of gold was collected in 1885 from the soot of the chimney in the London Mint. £200 worth of gold was…

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The New Goldfields in Queensland

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 November 1892 · page 5

THREE times in the brief history of Queensland (says the North Queensland 'Herald') the discovery of alluvial gold has opportunely relieved commercial depression of more or…

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Stumbling upon a Mine

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1892 · page 4

GOLD was discovered in California in 1848, and in Colorado in 1858. The discovery was accidental in both-cases, and the fact created the impression that mines were "lying around loose."…

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Gold Mines and God-mining Companies in the Dalmorton District

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 December 1892 · page 8

AMONG the disadvantages under which the field labored may be reckoned (besides the want of capital and machinery for the first two years of its existence), its situation, and…

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