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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

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Mining at Bucca Creek

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 November 1896 · page 4

THE correspondent of the Clarence Examiner writes:—Reports from the new find near Cowling's are somewhat conflicting, and nothing definite can yet be said more than that…

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Coal Tar a Colour Producer

Northern Star · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 8

GOAL tar, formerly considered a waste, and a regular nuisance to gas-workors, is now carefully saved and utilised as one of the most valuable colour producers. The chemists have…

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A Visit to Bucca Creek Goldfields

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 November 1896 · page 2

THE glowing reports which I read in the daily and weekly papers induced me to visit the above goldfields, being led by the statements I read that there was a good formation for minerals of varions kinds…

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Gold Find in Queensland

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 27 November 1896 · page 8

A late wire from Georgestown says:—There is great excitement over the extraordinary gold find at M'Donaldtown. Tim Hogan, who was working the ground on the top…

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The Londonderry Mine

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 4 December 1896 · page 2

FEW mines in the world have been more famous in their day than the Londonderry, West Australia. Probably, says the Melbourne Argus, none…

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Colliery Disaster at Stockton

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 11 December 1896 · page 5

ON Thursday and Friday last week a terrible accident occurred at Stockton, in the Newcastle district, which caused the death of at least eight miners from the effects of foul, air…

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Th Northern Star. Saturday Morning, December 12Th, 1896. Heroism at the Stockton Mine

Northern Star · Saturday 12 December 1896 · page 2

NOT WITHSTANDING the tragic fate of the miners in the Stock ton colliery, the…

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The Stockton Colliery Disaster. Heroic Work of the Rescuers

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 December 1896 · page 6

IT is only now that the members of the rescue party have recovered from the effects of their trying experinces, that it is easy to obtain a clearer and more vivid account, of the heroic…

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The Northern Star. Wednesday Morning, December 16Th, 1896. the Dangers of Mining

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 December 1896 · page 2

A FEW months ago, when writing in reference to the strike dispute, then existing between miners…

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