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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1889

5 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

Gold-saving Apparatus

Northern Star · Saturday 23 February 1889 · page 2

Now that the gold fever is getting high in this district anything bearing upon the mining industry will be read with interest. We find the following in a leading American…

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Mining Enterprise

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 July 1889 · page 2

The Sugar Industry, and business generally being at a rather low ebb, some time since, at Mackay, Queensland, consequent upon the withdrawal of colored labor from the…

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Wonderful Gold Claim

Northern Star · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 4

As an illustration of the fortune of gold digging, we publish the following:—The history, of one of the Ballarat claims, called the Blacksmith's Claim, because its owner, belonged to that craft,…

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White Rock Mines

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 27 September 1889 · page 4

THE manager of the above reports on September 12 :-The prospecting level or open cut at the west end of the mine has been opened out to the extent of…

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Gas in Illawarra Coal

Northern Star · Wednesday 27 November 1889 · page 6

MR. JOHN EDWARDS, the present manager of the Wollongong Gas Works, is obtaining gas results fron Illawarra coal hitherto unequalled here. So much did Mr. Edwards's…

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