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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1891

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The Mount Pleasant Mines at Fairfield. (From the T. and C. Journal.)

Northern Star · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 6

THE place called the Hill, or Mount Pleasant, situated about two miles from Fairfied, is remarkable for rich, stone in reefs which although they are not most of them large are…

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The Coraki Coal Seams

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 June 1891 · page 4

MR. T. H. E. DAVIDS, Geological Surveyor, haa now furnished his report which deals with the above seams. It sta[?]: The most important of the seams [?] to proved near…

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The Richmond Coal Seams

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 4

Tn the report published by Mr. T. W. E. David, Geological Surveyor, who it will be remembered visited the Richmond lately, the following appears concerning…

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A Mining Wonder

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 6

The Gulgong correspondent of the Mudgee Post writes :—Near Gulgong there is to be found a very remarkable old miner named G. Tornor, known among…

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Mining in Victoria

Northern Star · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 4

THE mining industry in Victoria is undeniably on the downward grade. The annual report of the Secretary for Mines shows the usual diminution in the quantity of the…

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A Wonderful Mine

Northern Star · Wednesday 8 July 1891 · page 6

A MARVELLOUS record was given on June [?] it being the sixth anniversary of the issue of the prospectus of the Broken Hill Prop[?]letary Co. The total amount received on…

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Richmond Hill Coal Mine

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 17 July 1891 · page 2

THE discovery of a payable seam of coal within a short distance of Coraki is an event pregnant with the utmost importance to the whole district. With our…

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Richmond Hill Coal Mine

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 17 July 1891 · page 8

ON Monday morning the steamer Catherine, kindly lent for the occasion by W. Yabsley, Esq., convoyed a party of our townsmen, consisting of Messrs. W…

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Swan Bay Coal Mine

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 24 July 1891 · page 8

MR. ALEX M'INTOSH returned from another vist to the Swan Buy coal mines yesterday, and brings with him a large block of coal—weighing about l00lbs.—…

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Our Coal Trade

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 24 July 1891 · page 4

MR. C. T. BAGOT writes to the S. M. Herald of Wednesday as follows:—On reading Mr. Young's interesting letter about the rising coal industry in Japan…

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Richmond Hill Coal Mine

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 31 July 1891 · page 2

THE following report, bearing date July 28th, has been forwarded to us publication :— "Since my last report the drive has been further extended, and is now in almost 100…

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Richmond Hill Coal Mine

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1891 · page 2

ON Saturday last the steamer Irvington conveyed a number of shareholders and friends to the above mine. The party included Mr. F. G. Crouch, J.P., Mayor of Casino, Mr…

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Tonquin Coal

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 August 1891 · page 4

THE Iron and Coal Trades Review states that the coal found at Tonquin is a semienthracite of the very finest quality. It contains about 87 per cent. of fixed…

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A New Gold Amalgamator

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 4 September 1891 · page 6

A PARTY of British and Angle—Colonial mining engineers und others went down the river to Hutching's wharf the other day (writes a London correspondent) to…

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Gold Struck A gain at Hill End

Northern Star · Wednesday 9 September 1891 · page 4

CONSIDERABLE: excitement has [?] caused at Hill End owing to the fact of payable gold having been struck in driving the tunnel in the Great Amalgamated Gold Mining [?]…

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The Departments of Mines and Justice

Northern Star · Saturday 19 September 1891 · page 6

IT seems to be impossible to procure the publication of the reports of the Civil service Commission on the Mines and the Justice Departments. The forme was sent to the Premier…

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The Queensland Goldfields

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 September 1891 · page 4

THE reterns for the month of August exceed any previous record of the field. The dividends, including those from the English compantes amount to £5[?],900, while the…

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Local Coal Measures

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 25 September 1891 · page 4

Report upon a portion of the coal measures of the clarence Basin, with special reference to the occurrence of coal at coraki. Geological survey, Department of Mines,…

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Extracting Gold or Silver

Northern Star · Saturday 26 September 1891 · page 3

ANOTHER process for the extraction of gold and silver sulphide ores has been discovered, and is being tried on the ore from the Champion in the Thames district of New Zealand…

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The Ceraki Coal Mine

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

WITH this issue we complete the report of Mr. T. W. E. David, Government Geologist, upon the coal deposits of this and the Clarence district, and in doing…

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