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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

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Grains of Gold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 June 1895 · page 8

PROOF is better than theory. Doubting minds will ever bring a swarm of demons. Even the devil is interesting at…

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A City Whose Streets are Paved with Gold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 June 1895 · page 5

CURIOUS persons have, by assay, at one time and another obtained evidence in support of the assertion that the streets of Nevada, U.S.A., are pared with silver…

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Mining in New England. Hillgrove Crushings

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 June 1895 · page 2

Baker's Creek—545 tors crashed for 596o[?]. 9dwts. smelted gold. Eleano[?]—440 tons crushed for 54oz. 2dwts. smelted gold, 13 tons…

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More Gold. [By Telegraph.] West Australia

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1895 · page 5

SPLENDID gold has been struck at a depth of 50 feet in the Consuella nine at Ninety Mile…

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Mining Accident. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday Afternoon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1895 · page 5

A MINER named Alex. M'Millan neatly, lost his life at Gulgong on Saturday. He was being lowered down a shaft 150ft. deep, and when about 120ft. he called out…

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Mining in New England

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 12 June 1895 · page 3

The Golden Gate battery is working steadily, and will clean up again on Friday next, when better results than the last are anticipated. In the mine…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 15 June 1895 · page 3

A miner named Alexander M'Millan was being lowered down a shaft at Gulgong, and when down about 120ft he called out to be hauled up as there…

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Rich Discovery of Gold

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 15 June 1895 · page 3

The rich shoot at the Londonderry mine, Coolgardie, which was lost has been picked up again at the 100 feet level. Within a few hours stone…

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Uralla Items. MINING

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 June 1895 · page 3

There is a great deal of active work going on at the new lead, about twenty shafts being in progress, while several of them have to…

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Mining in New England

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 June 1895 · page 5

If we may judge by the Mint returns, the increase in the gold production in New South Wales last year is not being maintained this…

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The Londonderry Mine. Another Rich Shoot. Coolgardie

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 June 1895 · page 3

The greatest excitement has been occasioned by a report that the Londonderry mine has again picked up the rich shoot which cut out so…

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Gold Export

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1895 · page 3

The steamer Oruba, which sailed for London to-day, took away 50,000 sovereigns, shipped by the Bank New South Wales…

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Fresh Gold Find

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1895 · page 3

An important alluvial discovery is reported from Spring Flat, near Gundagai, and a 20 ounce nugget has been found…

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West Australia. Gold Export

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1895 · page 3

The gold exported from the colony last month amounted to 19,2080 oz…

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Great Find of Gold

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1895 · page 4

A TELEGRAM from Coolgardie on the 12th instant says :-- The Londonderry has retrieved itself. During the past week or so there have been several reports of rich discoveries in the…

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Gold Export. [By Telegraph.] Perth

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1895 · page 5

THE gold exported from West Australia last month amounted to 19,208 ounces…

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Gold for London. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1895 · page 5

THE steamer Oruba, which sailed for London to-day, took away 50,000 sovereigns shipped by the Bank of New South Wales…

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Crow Mountain Goldfield

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 19 June 1895 · page 4

Nicholas and pirty and Jones end party both report having struck payable gold in the vicinity of the Try Again mine. Other parties in the same…

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Grains of Gold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1895 · page 7

GRATITUDE, says someone, is the memory of the heart. A reflective, thinking, enquiring life is really the most exalted existence…

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Twenty-Five Miles of Gold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1895 · page 6

THE Duchess of St. Albans, who, originally an actress married, first, Mr. Thos. Coutts, who died in 1837, left her immense fortune amounting, it is…

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