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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1894

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Western Australia Goldfields More Rich Finds

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 7 September 1894 · page 7

NEWS from Coolgardie state that 40lbs weight of magnificently rich gold specimens has been placed in the Union Bank by S. Stein, from two leases nine miles north of Mount…

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The Goldfields of Western Australia

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 14 September 1894 · page 4

THE vast territory of Western Australia—twenty times greater in area than England, yet inhabited by only 70,000 souls—has up till within the last few…

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Marengo Goldfield

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 September 1894 · page 4

CONFLICTING reports are to hand this week regarding the Marengo goldfield. In the early part of the week it was rumoured that fresh discoveries had been…

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The Goldfields of Western Australia. (Continued from our Last.)

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 21 September 1894 · page 4

ON the Marble Bar goldfield two of the richest properties are the Coongan, or Augusta (as it is sometimes called), and the Homeward Bound. The former has…

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Mining Information. Rich Gold Find at Drake

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 September 1894 · page 8

SOME excitement was created at Tenterfield on Thursday last when news spread of the discovery of a rich gold find at Gough's Gully near Drake, at a level of…

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The Coolgardie Goldfield

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1894 · page 4

RUMORS haye been circulated for nearly two weeks of a very rich find. News came to hand that a discovery had been made near Siberia by J. Downie and…

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A New Goldfield

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 November 1894 · page 4

A TELEGRAM from Adelaide states that great excitement has been caused at Kangaroo Island over a rich discovery of gold-bearing country at a spot 31…

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New Gold Find

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 November 1894 · page 8

ADVICES from Nowra state that the new find at the Caledonian Co.'s property in even more important than was anticipated. Some splendid specimens thick with gold…

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The West Australian Goldfields

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 November 1894 · page 2

A PERTH telegram to the S. M. Herald, dated Friday last, states Mr. E. H. Hallack, a press representative, has returned to Geraldton from a visit to the goldfields. He says that owing to the races…

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Goldfields of This Colony

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 7 December 1894 · page 2

THE many recent discoveries of rich gold-bearing reefs which have taken place go fur to prove that New South Wales is still rich in the precious metal…

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Gold and Typhoid

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 14 December 1894 · page 4

TELEGRAM from Coolgardie on 8th December says:—A 2ft 6in reef, carrying a little gold, has been struck in the Golden South Mine at a depth of 108ft…

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The Murchison Goldfield

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 14 December 1894 · page 4

MR. E. H. HALLACK, representing the S. A. Register, has returned to Geraldton from a visit to the Murchison goldfields. The fields are of enormous extent…

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