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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1897

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West Australia. Rich Gold Find

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1897 · page 3

From Coolgardie it is rumored that a phenomenally rich strike of gold has been made at the Great Boulder mine, consisting of a seam of three inches of pure gold…

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A Rich Mine. New Zealand

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 December 1897 · page 5

THE Waihi Mine in the Thames district yielded £143,291 worth of gold during the year, making a total of £636,611 since 1890…

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Social Life on the Arctic GoldFields

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1897 · page 6

SAYS a Dawson City (Klondyke) miner (Mr. M'Kay), who has just reached the outer world:—The social side of Dawson City never sleeps. It shows how…

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Kalgoorlie Mines. Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1897 · page 5

AT an interview with Mr. W. A. Irwin, the general manager of the Australasian Group of Associated Mines at Kalgoorlie, yesterday, he said that, in his opinion,…

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