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Mining & the mines, 1894

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Disaster at the Proprietory Mine, Broken Hill

Katoomba Times · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 2

DISASTER behind on the Propri[?]tory mine, Broken Hill [?] Tuesday by which it is probable [?] deaths. For some time [?] have [?] at the southern end of the…

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The Gold Yield For 1893

Katoomba Times · Friday 6 April 1894 · page 3

IT appears that the depression of 1893 has not been without its uses, as the figures relative to the gold yield of the colony for this year will show. The quantity won during the year was 179,288oz., or [?]n…

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Mining in Australia

Katoomba Times · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 4

In every way Australian mining promises a big revival. The refractory and the poor reefs even, which once baffled the interpid prospector, have been robbel of almost all their difficulties by the…

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Wyalong Goldfield

Katoomba Times · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 3

MATTERS in connection with mining in Wyalong proper contiage about the same as last report. The battery at Barmedman which was stopped to effect alterations is to start crushing next Monday the…

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Concert in Aid of Katoomba Miners' Families

Katoomba Times · Friday 4 May 1894 · page 3

ONE of the most successful concerts ever held here was given by the Lawson Good Templars in the Congregational Church on Tuesday the 1st instant in aid of the families of the miner at Katoomba,…

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Wyalong Goldfield

Katoomba Times · Friday 4 May 1894 · page 3

TO-DAY being day of cessation of labor, and having no church to go to, I resolved, in company with a friend, to visit some of the claims of golden holes, as they are termed here. Accordingly, a start…

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Wyalong Goldfield

Katoomba Times · Friday 11 May 1894 · page 3

I AM not able to give a lengthy report this time, as daring last week my whole time has been taken up inputting down a shaft upon a new line of reef, and consequently have had little or no time to look…

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Wyalong Goldfield

Katoomba Times · Friday 25 May 1894 · page 2

THAT expected since last letter to have resumed my visit to the claims and give some information, but as yet have been unable to do so. I am therefore only able at present to give a report on the…

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Wyalong Gold[?]eld

Katoomba Times · Friday 8 June 1894 · page 3

THE very heavy rains which have fallen during the [?]ast few days hare been exceeding beneficial in assuring an ample water supply for the Wyalong fields. The effect on the roads has been very bad,…

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Mr. D. Thomson's Gold Saver. An Erst Katoomba Man to the Fore

Katoomba Times · Friday 8 June 1894 · page 2

A PUBLIC trial of Mr. D. Thomson's "Invi[?]cible Alluvial Washer" was made on Saturday at the rear of the E[?]inbore' Castle Hotel, in the presence of a large number of spectators. The dirt is placed…

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