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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
30 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 2
The Miners' general secretary (Mr. David Ritchie), gave a graphic account of the danger which meuac[?]d the first search pardes that entered the mine. He said: " When I heard…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE disaster which occurred at Mount Kembla last week, particulars of which our telegrams gave up to Thursday night last, is the most terrible of the kind which has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JOHNSTOWN, U.S.A., has again been visited by an appalling disaster, only less frightful in loss of life than the awful eulamity of May 31, 1889, when the water dam burst. An explosion has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JOHNSTOWN (America) has again been visited by an appalling disaster. An Explosion has taken place in the Cambria Steel Company's Rolling Mill mine, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FORTY-TWO years ago J. H. Merryman, an Ohioan, buried beneath the floor of his mining cabin in Plumas County, U.S.A., 2000 dollars in gold nuggets. He…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT is claimed, and with reason, that the REd Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hecla copper mine, in Northern Michigan, is the deepest in the world. It has taken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE contributions from the Lismore Inspectorate to the above fund for the month of Sept. amounted to £139 13s 7d Mr. W. Cornish, Inspector of Schools for this district, has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The very warm weather of the past week culminated in dust and thunderstorms on 8th inst. A little rain fell at Mudgee, where dust…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →For some time a prospecting claim has been worked on the open sea beach about midway between Pambula and Eden at a place known…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As is generally known, the discovery or gold, which caused the first great rush, was made by Mr. Edward H. Hargraves, at Lewis Ponds Creek, near Bathurst, on February 12, 1851. It…
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