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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1878

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Mining in Victoria

Northern Star · Saturday 26 January 1878 · page 4

THE reports of the mining surveyors and legistrars of Victoria for the quarter ending September 30, 1877, are fairly satisfactory, The total yield of gold was 207,634 ozs…

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Down in a Silver Mine

Northern Star · Saturday 13 April 1878 · page 4

THOSE who have never personally inspected the lower levels of our mines may obtain some idea of the degree of heat to be found therein by visiting the Savage Works at the…

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Science. Colurs From Coal

Northern Star · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 2

PROFESSOR ARMSTORNG delivered a lecture recently on this subject at the London Institution. After explaining the stort, condenser, exhauster, scrubber and…

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Silver Mine near Tenterfield

Northern Star · Saturday 13 July 1878 · page 4

A VERY important report from Mr. Warden Graham, to the Under-SEcretary for Mines, on the new silver discoveries at Boorrook, near Tenterfield has been published. Mr. Graham…

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Grandmother's Gold Buckle. I.—a Green Door Opens

Northern Star · Saturday 3 August 1878 · page 1

THE July morning glowed with the heat of an Italian summer, the sun poured down rays of intense white light on the marble fagade of the Church of Santa Croce in…

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The Northern Star. Lismore, August 17, 1878. MINING

Northern Star · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 2

As stated in our last issue, we have received the Annual Report of the Department of Mines of this Colony, for the year 1877, which Report embraces 208 pages, and…

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The Natural Dissemination of Gold

Northern Star · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 2

THE results of recent investigations only go to confirm more and mare the opinion long held by geologists as to the wide distribution of gold…

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Coal and Its Products

Northern Star · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 2

APART from the varied uses of coal in its ordinary state, we owe an immense deal to the products which by chemical means we obtain from it; and it is our purpore in this…

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Mining Statisties

Northern Star · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 3

THE almost simultaneous appearance of the official mining statistics of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, for the past year, enables an interesting comparison to be…

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Tales of the Mines. the Hanging Rock

Northern Star · Saturday 5 October 1878 · page 1

WHEN to our passions sway is given. The end no prophet can foresee, The soul is tempest tossed, and riven With sin, remorse, and misery…

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The Bag of Gold. Author of "Scripopolis."

Northern Star · Saturday 19 October 1878 · page 1

THE Rev. Bryan Barry was the sole representative of the Roman Catholic faith in the wild and mountainous district of Jimbellico an isolated stretch of country in one of…

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Tales of the Mines. the Little Diggers

Northern Star · Saturday 26 October 1878 · page 1

OVER two years have elapsed since we left the little diggers in the charge of Jack the Blower. Vast changes have taken place in Sandy Greek, The alluvial claims have all…

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Tales of the Mines. on the Road to Bendigo. an Incident at Mount Macedon

Northern Star · Saturday 16 November 1878 · page 1

"WERE there any bushrangers in Victoria?" said the old pioneer, as we sat in our hotel, a few days since. "Were there? I should say so. Why, I came across three of…

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Science. Working Gold Ores

Northern Star · Saturday 7 December 1878 · page 2

COMMUNICATIONS are sometimes addressed to us asking our advice or opioions concetning various methods of working gold ores, and recently several correspondents…

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