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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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Gold and Sliver

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 4

THE world's production of gold and sliver in 1904 according to a report just issued by the American Government, had a value of £72,332,064 for gold, and of…

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Gold From the Sea. Is the Project Feasible? a Byron Bay Experiment

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 January 1906 · page 3

Modern science annthilates more than space and time. When our fathers were boys the chemists said that gold was practically insoluable, Without reckoning…

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Effort in Got Gold from the Sea

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1906 · page 3

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Promising Gold Fiold

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1906 · page 2

THE Minister for Minus has received the following report from the wardon (Mr. T.A. Smith) at Tuesday, respecting a roof being worked at Craiglon:—…

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Cold from the Sea. MR. A. Argles' Marine Gold Extracting Plant. Broken. Head, N.S.W.

The Byron Bay Record · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 9

The other day I did the trip between Ballina and Byron Bay along what is known as tho Old Beach Road. That is I made my way, as the early settlers…

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The White Cement Mine. a Lost Gold Field

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1906 · page 11

The story of the "White Cement" mine is a curious one. One day in the eightles a gold seeker, named White, came into Horse Head Gulch, California, from…

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"Barbarous Coal Fires." How to Banish Fogs

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 12

The "Daily Mail" writes that the Duke of Fife was unable to take the chair, and Sir Oliver Lodge was too indisposed deliver his address on the…

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A Wonderful Mine of Oak Forest

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 3

A Russian timber dealer has discovered a valuable mine of oak. It exists in a river in South Russia, and has layers three or four feet deep, scattered over one hundred…

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Gold In Sheep's Teeth

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 6

APPLICATION has been made at Hay for two miners right in [?] air[?]. Some time ago a butcher in Melbourne found that some sheep…

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Tin Mining in the North

Mullumbimby Star · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 8

A VISIT has just been paid by the Under-Secretary for Mines, Mr. Pittman, to Tingha, in the Inverell district. He had not been there for six…

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The Madagascar Goldfields

Mullumbimby Star · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 3

A Reuter telegram from Paris, dated 24th November, states that the decree making further regulations with regard to the gold mines in…

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Sensational Mine Accident. A Pluoky Comrado

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 4

A SENSATIONAL accident, which resulted in the death of Patrick John Kearman, and in which Henry Dodman, William Edwards, Jons Nelson, and Jeel Noble…

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Gold-Mining on Sea Beaches

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 8

AT Shellharbour, along the coast, and a few miles from Sydney, are a number of " sea miners " working constantly at extracting gold from the sand. The…

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Beach Mining

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

A "BRISBANE COURIER" correspondent states that there is an astounding revival of gold mining on the sea benches on the North Coast. Seven miles south of Cape…

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Appalling Mining Disaster. London

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2

A TERRIBLE mining disaster is reported from Couvieres (France). A fire broke out in a coal mine at a depth of 700 feet, which led to a terrible…

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Mine That Never Was. "Band of the Baker" Swindlers

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 12

Another exploit of the "Band of the Baker," the gang of international thieves now being broken up by the police has come to light to-day…

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Mining Disaster. Ever We have feel

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 5

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Terrible Mine Explosion

The Byron Bay Record · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 9

The explosion at the Courrieres (France) mine ejected from the mine three cages with the men who were being lowered in them at the time…

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Production of Gold

Northern Star · Monday 19 March 1906 · page 3

The Director of the U.S. Mint, George B. Roberts, [?] the prediction, in an article in [?] [?]' Magazine," that the world's [?] [?] of gold will average at…

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