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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1877

3 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

The Gold Fields

Northern Star · Saturday 10 March 1877 · page 3

A CURIOUS fragment of early gold fields history reaches us '(Courier)' from New South Wales. Although not the earliest discoverer of gold in Australia, Edmund…

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Facts about Air and Mine Ventilation

Northern Star · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 2

At a recent meeting of the North Staffordshire Mining Institute, a paper by Mr Wardle, of Burslem, was read on this subject. He said the temperature of the…

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A Coal Mine Disaster

Northern Star · Saturday 1 September 1877 · page 3

THE 'Evening News' of the 27th August says:—A portion of the Wallsend Company's workings under the township of Wallsend, fell in to-day, causing great destruction to…

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