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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1884

3 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

Modern Goldfields

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1884 · page 2

IN an article on this subject the "Westminister Review" says:— "In 1848 the grand discovery was made of the goldfields in California, just a fortnight before the treaty…

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Science. On the Physical Conditions Under Which Coal was Formed

Northern Star · Saturday 2 February 1884 · page 2

THE mode of formation of coal has been much discussed, and various theories have been promulgated in regard to it; but the peat bog theory, as it is called, bas been…

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Our Coal Mines

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 November 1884 · page 3

THE energetic projector of the New Coal Mine at Swan Bay (Mr. W. Green, C.E.), has been in town this week, and we have gleaned the following particulars from him of the amount of…

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