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Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1877

5 stories in Riverina's papers

Visit to the Snowball Copper Mine

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1877 · page 2

For a considerable time the mining operations in this locality have been watched with much interest, inasmuch as they were known to be pushed ahead by one possessed of the…

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A Coal Pit of Fire

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 April 1877 · page 1

A most disastrous fire occurred at Messrs. Roscoo and Lord's Stonehill Colliery, Worsley Road, Farnmouth, near Boston, on Jan. 23, by which…

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Chinese Labour for English Collieries

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 25 April 1877 · page 1

A LONDON journal has the following " There is some talk of a leading colliery proprietor introducing Chinese cheap labour into the country. He is…

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Gold-mining Lease

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 22 May 1877 · page 3

NOTICE is given that unless within thirty days from date, 15th May, the applicant for the undermentioned gold-mining lease furnishes the warden or warden's clerk with…

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Gold Near Wagga. (To the Editor of the Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 4

SIR,—In your local contemporary of the 13th instant, I read a letter from a correspondent, writing over the initials "T.F," which recalled to mind ideas held and…

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