The Northern Miner (Queensland)
Australian newspaper
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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]