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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

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Edison's Gold Saver. Description of the Process

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 October 1903 · page 6

Edison's dry-blowing process for the treatment of all kinds of placer gold, and which is being watched so closely by the whole mining community of Australia,…

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Edison's Gold-Saver. Description of the Process

Northern Star · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 2

The reports which have recently appeared concerning Mr. Edison's dry process for the treatment of gold-bearing gravels have aroused a great deal of…

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A Great Coal Seam at Cessnock. Over Twenty-seven Feet Thick

Northern Star · Wednesday 11 November 1903 · page 5

"Yes, we have come upon a seam of coal of exceptional thickness; we have cut in 27ft., and oro not through it yet," Dr. Robertson, representative of the Caledonian…

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Recipes That Are Gold Mines

Northern Star · Saturday 21 November 1903 · page 6

The Oxford Frees Syndicate value the formula for making the thin, tough paper used in printing their Bibles, at a quarter of a million sterling, it having cost them…

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Discoveries at Coolgardie. Nensationai. Yields of Gold

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 December 1903 · page 3

The Coolgardie syndicate which took up a lease on the Humpton Plains Katata last month struck vary rich gold last week Rich gold was struck in the ironatone…

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North Coast F. F. and Gold Storage? Company. Improvements in the Factory

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 December 1903 · page 4

Extensive improvements and additions at the North Coast Co-operative Factory at Byron Bay are now about completed, and a brief description will be acceptable to our readers. These…

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Dee Goldfields, Mount Usher

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 11 December 1903 · page 9

SIR,— It may interest some of your readers to know a little about the Dee rush, and the cheapest way to get there. First, the Lady Musgrave from Balline. to Brisbane…

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Gold on the Upper Clarence River

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 December 1903 · page 7

The Government Geologist, Mr. Pittman, in a report to the Minister for Mines, states that he recently inspected a promising-looking deposit on a mountain…

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Lost Gold Mines

Northern Star · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 2

Treasure stories of the western plains and nominations how scores of lives have been lost and untold hardships endured…

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