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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1881

6 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

Gold-Bearing Springs

Northern Star · Saturday 26 February 1881 · page 3

I HAVE just seen your despatch from San Francisco, in Saturday's "Evening Post," about 'Gold in Solution in the Galistoga Springs, and about the proprietor having…

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Prospecting for Gold

Northern Star · Saturday 5 March 1881 · page 4

A party has recently been sent out from Gympie to prospect in the Bunya Bunya Ranges, which lie at the head of the Baranba Creek, above Nanango, but their proceedings…

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About Gold

Northern Star · Saturday 16 April 1881 · page 3

IN the science of gold-getting, if there be such a science, the finding of so large a nugget as the one of 120 cx recently unearthed at Temora is an event of more than ordinary…

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Heat of the Comstock Sliver Mine

Northern Star · Saturday 23 July 1881 · page 5

THE extraordinary degree of heat found in the depths of the great Comstock mine, Nevada, has drawn a good deal of attention to the causes of interual heat in the mines…

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Minister for Mines

Northern Star · Saturday 20 August 1881 · page 6

THE 'Echo' says,—In resigning his office as the Minister for Mines, Mr. Baker has done a graceful, if not the necessary thing. He has been one of the trustees in the Milburn…

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A Nugget of Gold

Northern Star · Saturday 29 October 1881 · page 5

IN the early days of the Du[?]lly gold-fields, writes the author of "A Glance at Australia in 1880," two wotking miners named Oates and Deeson, after experiencing many…

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