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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1891

47 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 3

The Coraki Coal Mine

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1891 · page 2

LAST week operations at the above were temporarily suspended until after the new year, when it is anticipated arrangements will be made to get out a supply…

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The Coraki Coal Mine

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 2

MATTERS in connection with the above are in a very healthy condition, and the floating of a big company has advanced a certain stage, and in a very short time…

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Deep Mines

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 6

ONE thousand and forty yards is (according to an English contemporary) the depth which miners in the lower workings of the Ashton Moss Colliery…

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The Sudest Goldfields

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1891 · page 4

THE miners, who are still at Sudest and Aignan, are just making wages-rations that's about all. A good many men have been prospecting on their own…

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Recent Discovery of Reef-Gold. (From a Correspondent.)

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 January 1891 · page 2

I HAD an interview with a prospector who has recently been prospecting the line of coast from Byron Bay to the Tweed River. He asserts that investigation between Byron Bay and the…

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The Coraki Coal Mine. Another Satisfactory Report on the Coal Seam

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 7

As a result of the recent inspection, Mr. Rosa, sour., a mining export, has submitted the following report:—The 1st, or what is known as the No. 1 seam, is…

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The Coraki Coal Mine

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 7

A GENERAL meeting of the members of the syndicate of the above was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Wednesday evening last, Mr. W. Yabsley in the…

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The District Coal Measures

Northern Star · Wednesday 25 February 1891 · page 4

MR. DAVID, Geological Surveyor of the Mines Department, at a luncheon at Coraki, spoke as follows in reference to these coal measures:—"The coal measures of the Clarence…

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Nationalization of Coal Mines

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 10 April 1891 · page 6

SIR GEORGE GREY may be a very experienced Politician, but he is apt sometimes to ride hobbies that have no substance, or that cannot be made of…

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Coraki Coal-Mining Co

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 10 April 1891 · page 7

THE usual quarterly meeting of the above was held on Wednesday evening last, when there was a fair attendance of the shareholders, Mr. W. Yabsley (chairman) presided, and a…

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A Big Mining Tunnel

Northern Star · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 6

A MINING tunnel is to be run in Chili that wil extend from Equiqui to Hantagia. It will be 8 miles long; 14 feet wide, and 20 feet high. In going less than 600 feet the…

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The Submarine Mine Explosion. Report of the Commission

Northern Star · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 6

THE report of the Court of Inquiry into the Middle Head disaster has been received by the Colonial Secretary, Sir Henry Parkes. The conclusion arrived at by the Court is as…

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Mining Gambling. the Way It Is Done

Northern Star · Wednesday 6 May 1891 · page 6

THE recent gamble in the scrip of the Bear Hill Proprietary Co. on the Melbourne Exchange promises to turn out £90,000 for the benefit of the syndicate that so successfully…

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Richmond Hill Coal—Mining Company

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 May 1891 · page 2

A PROSPECTUS on the above syndicate will be found on another page of this day's issue. Assays from the Mines Department and Colonial Sugar Co…

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Coal Saving

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 4

A TRIAL was made recently at Leeds, of a coal—saving composition which has been invented by Mr. W. C. Owston. The composition is being produced by the…

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Excitement over Coal

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1891 · page 8

THE South Australian Government Geologist has received a telegram from Leigh's Creek, stating that a scam in of coal had been struck at 1496 feet by the…

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Coal on the Richmond River

Northern Star · Saturday 30 May 1891 · page 6

THE travelling reporter of the T. and C. Journal writes of tbe district coal mines as follows:— Near a place called Corak[?], which is situated on the Richmond River at almost the extreme north…

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The White Rock Silver Mine

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 June 1891 · page 4

THE T. and C. Journal special reporter writes of this mine: "Who is there that has been speculating in mining during the last four years that has not heard of the White…

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Coraki Coal-Mining Property

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 June 1891 · page 8

REFERRING to his recent inspection of the above property, the travelling reporter of the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL says:—Near a place called Coraki, on the Richmond River at…

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Coal Discovery at Tenterfield

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 5 June 1891 · page 8

THE TENTERFIELD STAR says:—Mr. J. Ellis, Jun., and a party of district residents. have secured a splendid block of coal land in the Acacia Creek district of the Tenterfield…

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