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Mining & the mines, 1859

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A Visit to the Northern Gold-fields. [From Our Special Reporter.] No. II

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 December 1859 · page 2

AT the point where two main rivers, one coming from the southward, and the other from the northward, unite their streams, swollen with the tribute of the unnumbered creeks and ravines which, collect…

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The Clarence Gold-fields. [From a Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 December 1859 · page 3

MUCH excitement has been caused on these gold-fields by the sudden alteration of the direct route of the escort to Sydney via Grafton, to the circuitous one via Armidale and Maitland. Two public meetings…

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Export of Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 December 1859 · page 4

BY the Newcastle Coal and Copper Company, for the week ending 16th December:— Sydney..................... 848 tons. Melbourne.................. 370…

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The Wrecks of 1858. (From the Mining Chronicle, October 18.)

Empire · Thursday 22 December 1859 · page 4

THE annual wreck register, drawn up by the Board of Trade, contains this year, as usual, a large number of highly interesting statistics. At the outset, it is satisfactory to find that 1555 lives were rescued in 1858 by lifeboats, other boats, and ships, and by…

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Tambaroora Gold-fields. [From a Correspondent.]

Empire · Friday 23 December 1859 · page 2

THE good effeets of infusing a little animation amongst the diggers, by the inducements held out by our Prospecting Association, are beginning to be seen and felt already. This week the largest piece of gold ever…

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A Visit to the Northern Goldfields. [From Our Special Reporter.] No. III

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 December 1859 · page 3

ABOUT nineteen miles north, twenty east, from Fairfield, in a direct line, or thirty miles following the bridle track passing in the neighbourhood of the diggings on the tributaries of Emu Creek will bring the…

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