The Northern Miner (Queensland)

Front page of *The Northern Miner*, 4 July 1874

The Northern Miner is an online newspaper published in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia.

History

The Northern Miner was first established in 1872 by James Smith Reid.^[1] Reid established the paper only eight months after the discovery of gold in the regional Queensland town Charters Towers.^[2]

In 1876 Reid sold the paper to Thadeus O'Kane.^[1] As the owner and editor of the Northern Miner, O’Kane devoted himself and the paper to improving the lives of the miners working in Charters Towers.^[3]

Of the five newspapers published in the goldfields, The Northern Miner was the only one to survive the downturn in gold mining.^[when?]^{[citation needed]}

The paper was published in hard copy – from the same Gill Street address as in 1878 – until June 2020, when News Corp, its then owner, announced that more than 125 newspapers would be closed or become digital only.^[2]^[4] The paper was subsequently incorporated into the Townsville Bulletin.^[5]

Digitisation by Trove

Editions of the newspaper from 1874 to 1954 have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (Trove) of the National Library of Australia.^[6]^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "History". Charters Towers Regional Council. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b "the Northern Miner". News Corp Australia. Archived from the original on 23 August 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
^ "Historical Notes on North Queensland Newspapers". James Cook University. Archived from the original on 18 February 2015.
^ Major, Tom (1 June 2020). "Northern Miner closure ends era that chronicled North Queensland's boom years". ABC News. Brisbane: Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
^ "The Northern Miner Charters Towers". Facebook. 21 January 2025. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
^ "The Northern Miner". The Northern Miner. Original, Charters Towers. Digital reproduction, Canberra: National Library of Australia – Trove digital newspaper archive. 2 January 1954. Retrieved 21 January 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Newspaper Digitisation Program". Trove. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015.