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Mining & the mines, 1886

18 stories in South Coast's papers

The Late Mr. Richard Gold[?]

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 April 1886 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Melbourne to the Echo on Friday last says:— The news of the coath of Richard Goldsbrough which occurred yesterday afternoon was received with general and deep…

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Curious Properties of Coal-Gas

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 May 1886 · page 2

MR. Thomas Fletcher, Worrington, in speaking of "Some Curious Properties of Coal-gas," said that until lately people had been under the impression that gas was merely a means…

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Grains of Gold

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 2

A good conscience is a soft pillow. Most of our evils come from our vices. No man’s religion ever survives his morals. Ungratefulness is the very poison of…

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A curious Colony of Gold Diggers

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 4

A letter from St. Petersburg in the Journal des Debats gives ah interesting description of tho new California, as the new gold mines discovered in the valley of the…

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Grains of Gold

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 12 June 1886 · page 2

Govern your thoughts when alone and your tongue when in company. Never borrow trouble. The interest you have to pay for the accommodation is excessive…

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The Dromedary Goldfield

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 10 July 1886 · page 2

WE understand that, a systematic search for the precious metals, is now being quietly carried on in the vicinity of the Dromedary, and we have little doubt…

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Grains of Gold

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 17 July 1886 · page 2

It costs more to avenge wrongs than to bear them. No man can enjoy a success who has never made a failure…

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Mining and Minerals. a Guide for the Australian Miner

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 17 July 1886 · page 2

THE above work has been kindly sent us by the Board of Technical Education, and we can only say, but in our opinion it is a highly Technical production. For the…

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The Kimberley Goldfield

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 28 July 1886 · page 4

The following opportune remarks with respect to the Kimberley Goldfields are offered by Mr. C. E. Dooley (of Adcook and Co., Derby), who speaks with some…

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Kimberley Goldfield

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1886 · page 2

THE Herald’s correspondent gives the following one couraging reports of the Kimberley goldfields:—The following telegram has been received from Mr. George…

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Yalwal Goldfields

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 18 August 1886 · page 2

IT is now about 30 years since the early pioneers of Shoalhaven began to dig for gold at Yalwal. Spasmodic efforts have been made from time to time since then, to wrest from the adam in sine rocks the…

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Our Telegrams. (From our Telegraph Correspondent.) New Gold Rush at Mogo, Near Rateman’s Bay

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 15 September 1886 · page 2

IN order to ascertain the latest particulars as to prospects of the new gold field, we telegraphed to Moruya and have received the following reply:—“The prospectors…

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Grains of Gold

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 18 September 1886 · page 2

Palpitation serves to virtue as light does to a picture. Man’s genuine needs woman’s [?]couragement to develop it…

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Australian Tales and Adventures. No. 2, GOLD

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 29 September 1886 · page 1

"What, me me go to these are now diggin's? Well it I was as young as I was once, may be I might, but not at my time o' life; oil, no. Besides, I've had enough o'…

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Local Mining Statistics

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 October 1886 · page 2

The following local information is compiled from the "Annual Report of the Department of Mines for the Year. 1885,"— a document which has only just been issued, though it bears the…

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Queensland Gold

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 24 November 1886 · page 3

THE successful floating of a number of companies in England for the purpose of working some of our beat goldmines, has resulted in the attempted perpotration of a few barefaced…

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The Teetulpa Goldfields

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 27 November 1886 · page 2

The special reporter of the Advertiser at Teetulpa telegrams on Friday, that a rush has set in, about a mile and a matter from the prospector’s claim in Brady’s Gully, in a…

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Mining on the South Coast.—Mogo to Clyde River

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 22 December 1886 · page 2

AT no period in the history of the colony since gold was first discovered, would anew field be more acceptable than at the present time. Not hundreds but thousands of practical minors are…

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