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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1845

8 stories in Sydney's papers

South Australian Mines

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 17 May 1845 · page 238

THE mines that have been discovered in South Australia may be regarded of even more importance, perhaps, than the prospect of procuring iron from India. These mines…

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The London "Journal of Commerce" on the Lead and Copper Mines of South Australia

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 17 May 1845 · page 4

We have been kindly favoured with a copy of the London Journal of Commerce, of November the 23rd, in which we find an article headed, "New Sources of Commercial Wealth in our Foreign and Colonial…

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Copper Mines.--america.--south Australia

Commercial Journal and General Advertiser · Saturday 24 May 1845 · page 1

RECENT arrivals from Adelaide have tended to increase the interest with which the commercial circles of Sydney regard the progress of those mining operations which have…

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Original Correspondence. Mr. Lowe's Coal Bill. To the Editor of the Australian

The Australian · Tuesday 16 September 1845 · page 3

SIR,—It appears that the supineness of the City Council with reference to a matter which confessedly concerns tho citizens of Sydney to a serious extent, has not been unobserved by the…

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Australian Agricultural Company's Monopoly of Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 October 1845 · page 7

PAPERS relating to the engagements now existing between the Government and the Australian Agricultural Company, respecting the working of Coal in the Colony, referred…

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English Extracts. Mines in Australia. (From the Mining Journal.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 October 1845 · page 3

We have, on several occasions, adverted to the mineral products of South Australia, and felt some surprise that they should not have earlier attracted the attention of the capitalist, more…

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Gold

The Sentinel · Wednesday 3 December 1845 · page 3

Oh! what is gold that men should bend Their souls before its shrine? Can gold the joys of feeling blend, Or raise the thought divine?…

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Diamond Mine of Sincura

The Australian · Tuesday 30 December 1845 · page 227

WE live in the age and the meridian of the positive, Ours is the region and the period of what, in the jargon of the day, is called great facts. Dreamland is overshadowed by the vapours of Steam-land, and…

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