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Mining & the mines, 1875

7 stories in South Coast's papers

A Wall of Gold and Silver

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 17 February 1875 · page 3

IN California, or ratter in its sister State Nevada there has been discovered a mass of gold and silver, a region of actual real wealth, before which tho wildest stories of the Cortez band, or…

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Chinese Coal Mines

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 2

American writers are urging capitalists, to secure an interest in the Great Coal Belt in the vicinity of the Yangtze, river which passes through a coal region containing 400,000 square…

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Amended Description of the Southern Mining District

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 24 March 1875 · page 2

Embracing the counties of St. Vincent, Dampier, and Auckland, and parts of the counties of Argyle, Murray and Wellesly; Commencing on the sea coast, at the junction of the…

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Select [?] the Gold Fever in Wingecarribee ; or the Melancholy End of Graham Mfurtle

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1875 · page 4

Deep in a grove of Wingee [?] Stood the [?] but of Graham M’Furtle An priest, right good-bearted yeoman Whoround or shilling owned to po man:…

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The New Mining Bill

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Wednesday 11 August 1875 · page 3

Important changes proposed.—A court of mines and a judge to be appointed. THE new Mining Bill, which has been framed by the Minister for Mines, and which will…

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The First Discovery of Gold in New South Wales

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Wednesday 11 August 1875 · page 2

THE question of who was the first discoverer of gold in New South Wales, although often debated has never, until recently, received a satisfactory solution, and never we believe, until…

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Coal

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 2

THE most important of all mineral products,, Name originally given to any substance used as fuel. Origin, it consist of Carbon, is of vegetable origin, is fossil wood, which during long…

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