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Mining & the mines, 1873

26 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

Mining

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1873 · page 2

FERNBANK.—Affairs at this place are beginning to wear a more cheerful aspect, and the hopes of the reefers have been raised by the welcome news that a crushing machine is shortly to be…

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Mining. Shoalhaven Gold Fields. Yalwall

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1873 · page 2

THE news from this field during the week is very encouraging, and from the extent of ground taken up on the run of the reefs, it is very probable that mining will shortly be one…

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Gold Received by Escort

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1873 · page 2

RETURN showing the quantity and value of gold received from the several gold-fields of the colony in the year 1872. Amount received from the Western district…

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Mining. Shoalhaven Gold Fields. Fernbank

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 22 February 1873 · page 2

LABT Tuesday, Mr. Commissioner Shepherd visited the gold-field, and laid down the baseline of the Argyle Reef (Skinner, Robertson, and Lamond’s 5! acre 1case.) The reef was…

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Mining. Shoalhaven Gold Fields

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 March 1873 · page 2

The Nerriga correspondent of the Braidwood Dispatch-, writing to that journal says :—Nerriga is dull and quiet, like most places in the district appeal to be, no enterprising man-startling the…

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Mining. Shoalhaven Gold Fields. Fern Bane

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 5

THERE is very little news to report from this place. Things are going on in the usual humdrum fashion, and no improvement is to be expected in the state of affairs. until the crushing…

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New Zealand Land and Coal. London, March 17

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 5

A company has been formed here under the title of the New Zealand Land and Coal Company. Its capital is £100,000…

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Original Correspondence. Mining. to the Editor of the "Bega Gazette."

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Thursday 27 March 1873 · page 2

Sir, As mining is likely to be an important branch of industry in this district, allow me to make a few remarks. Having…

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Mining Shoalhaven Gold Fields

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 2

FERNBANK.— We have been given to understand that the engine and other inachinery constructed to the order of the “ Fernbank Quartz Crushing Company ” left Melbourne on…

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Yalwal Gold Field. Public Meeting

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 3 May 1873 · page 2

IN accordance with previous notification, a public meeting was held at Mrs. Isaacs' Hotel, Terrara, on Saturday afternoon last, for the purpose of considering tho desirability of at once…

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Toga Copper Mine! Important Discovery of a Rich Lode!

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 31 May 1873 · page 2

Our readers have been [?]aguainted by notices that have appeared from time to time in this journal during the past twelve months, that a party of minors have…

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A Trip to the Mines in the Shoalhaven District

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 14 June 1873 · page 3

THE Sydney Morning Herald’s special reporter, who paid the district a flying visit recently, writes of Shao[?]ven thus:— “Away down south about 100 miles from…

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Port Darwin Gold Fields

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Thursday 19 June 1873 · page 4

INFORMATION as to the condition and prospects of the Port Darwin country, as a gold-field, is furnished us by a miner, one of the unfortunate…

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Gold Mining Company

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1873 · page 5

A new Company is announced under the [?]me of the Great Australian Gold Mining Company. Its capital is £200,001, and Its object is to acquire the Tambaroora nine…

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The Price of Coal

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1873 · page 5

The price of coal in this market is again advancing…

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Miners’ Strike

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1873 · page 3

A strike of Scotch milers is imminent…

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Mining. FERNBANK

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1873 · page 2

Our great event has at length been consumated. Tuesday last, the 8th July, was one of the most memorable occasions for this place that ever took place. On that day, and on…

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The Search for Coal in Victoria

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1873 · page 3

The sister colony is nor very well pleased with the expressed opinion of the [?] W. B Clarke, that coal will not be found in Victoria in any great quantity. Coal they…

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Mining. Fern Bank

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 19 July 1873 · page 2

THE opening of the Fernbank Quartz Crushing Machine took place on the 8th instant A large number of residents of the coast and surrounding districts assembled to do honour to the…

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Mining in Victoria

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Thursday 7 August 1873 · page 4

IN Victoria, the distinnt quartz ree[?]s actually proved to be auriferious are 3260, being in the Ballarat district 202; Beechworth, 803; Sandhurst,…

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