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Mining & the mines, 1890

41 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 3

Original Correspondence. The Tlanjara and Jervis Bay Coal Company. to the Editor of the Shoalhaven Telegraph

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1890 · page 2

SIR,—As an old resident of Shoalhaven and the South Coast I am right glad to see that some of our residents are at last taking a practical step to further develope the resources…

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A terrible Mining Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 4

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State Aid to Mining Press [?]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1890 · page 4

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Water and Gold

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 3

As we get more knowledge of working gold ores and more fully realize the importance and difficulty of saving the very fine gold which all of them contain to a greater or…

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Tin and Silver Ore[?]and Coal. To the Editor of the Moruya Examiner

Moruya Examiner · Friday 14 February 1890 · page 2

SIR.—The hilly country that bounds Moruya to the west and west by north, and also on the coast line west by south, if carefully traced by mineral experts, will be found rich on given…

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‘Adorable Gwendolen, Be Mine.’

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 6

After an interval of about half as hour— during which Martha had ministered to Ned some slight refreshment, including a cup of weak tea over his legs—Gwendolen entered…

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The Pope’s Gold Rose

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 4

The gold rose, of which so much is [?] written, is not a rose at all, but arose bush or plant, perhaps eighteen inches in height, showing leaves, buds and several full-blown loses. The designs are…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion. Eighty Seven Lives Lost. Gallant Attempts at Rescue London, March 13

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 April 1890 · page 3

[?] have been the [?]of another [?] by when [?] have been [?] The [?] at the Morta…

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The Largest Nickle Mine

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1890 · page 3

ON a little branch of the Comedian [?] near [?] Canada, is a cricket [?] which produce more [?] is said, there the [?]…

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Mining In the Nerriga and Shoalhaven Districts

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 21 May 1890 · page 4

The annual report of the Department of Mines for the your ending 30th December, 1890, has just been issued. As usual it is a bulky volume full of minute reference to mining operations…

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Sketcher. the Blue and Gold Man Child

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 24 May 1890 · page 3

As Joes Jeffries, parting her way through the older- bashes, stood still a moment to pull down a bunch of the berries which spread like a red brown canopy above her, she saw…

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Gold Leaf Making

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 28 May 1890 · page 4

HUNDREDS of people stop every day to look down the stops loading into the basement of one of the old buildings on that part of Park Row that used to be Chatham street…

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Moruya Silver Mine. by Our Reporter

Moruya Examiner · Friday 30 May 1890 · page 2

ON Tuesday last our reporter paid a visit to the property of the Moruya Silver-mining Co., situated, as well known, about three miles south of Moruya. Mr Batt, the local manager,…

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The Pambula Goldfields

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 June 1890 · page 3

SINCE gold was first found, some few months ago, in the parish of Yowaka, there has been a good deal of excitement in the district, and many conflicting rumours…

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Mining in the Moruya District To the Editor of the Moruya Examiner

Moruya Examiner · Friday 6 June 1890 · page 2

SIR,—May I ask you to afford me space in your columns to ventilate a matter that seems to me of considerable importance to our district…

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Original Correspondence. Tianjara and Jervis Ray Coal Co. to the Editor of the Register

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 14 June 1890 · page 1

SIR,—As the welfare of the Tianjara and Jervis Bay Coal Company affects not merely the shareholders but also the district at large, and as a good deal of interest has been displayed…

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Italia Mine

Moruya Examiner · Friday 27 June 1890 · page 2

A MINER of twenty-five years experience writes :— I visited the Italia Reef which is situated about one mile west from the main road at…

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Araluen. Notes by “Old Gold”

Moruya Examiner · Friday 27 June 1890 · page 2

WE have had some hoisterous weather during the last few days; and in coursequence, many houses have been ungenfed and fences known down. Nothing out…

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Sketcher. in Search of a Gold Mine

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 28 June 1890 · page 3

I was obliged to cross a snow drift to attain a point chance I could descend to my friends. This drift lay at a sleep angle, terminating in a precipice seven or eight…

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A Mining Dispute. Floating the “Homeward Round.”

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 28 June 1890 · page 1

IN the Supreme Court, Melbourne on Thursday last, before his Honor Mr. Justice Webb an [?] was brought by Mr. William Afflick Robertson consulting engineer, Mr. Joseph…

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