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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1897

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Mine Concentrates

National Advocate · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 2

In our advertisement columns, says the the Telegraph, appears the registration notice of the Mount David Gold-mining Co., which has been formed to work…

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Mining at Wattle Flat. Wattle Flat

National Advocate · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 2

Work is partially suspended during the holidays. At Hegney's Reef sinking will not be resumed until after the New Year to avoid pumping all the time. The…

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BATHURST Daily Free Press. "Magna est veratas et proevalebit." Saturday, January 2, 1897. Encouragement to Mining

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 January 1897 · page 2

It is generally admitted that the standing reward which is offered by the Government for the discovery of new alluvial cold fields is a perfectly legitimate…

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Mining. Mount David Gold Mine

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 2

A company has recently been formed in Sydney called the Mount David Gold-mining Company, no liability, to work what has hi[?]rte been known as Crozier's Mount…

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The Mount David Mine

National Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1897 · page 2

THIS wonderful mine of wealth, which a great many of the ADVOCATE readers will remember best as Mount Maud, or Croziers mine, about 12 miles from…

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Mine Concentrates

National Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1897 · page 2

A wire from Sofala states that some nice gold has been brought in from Box Ridge by Mr. Albert Bourke, amounting to 41oz from alluvial…

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Mining. MUDGEE

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 7 January 1897 · page 3

It is estimated that the Mudge district gold yield is considerably over £70,000 worth. There are still several reports to come in from the outlying portions of the…

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Mining in the Bathurst District

National Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1897 · page 2

The year 1897 promises to break the record—so far as this district is concerned—of many years past. There is strong evidence that a large number of…

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Mine Concentrates. Cobar Mining. Cobar

National Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 3

Our mining industry, after the usual holiday full, is going ahead as heretofore! and the sound of the engine whistle, the thud of the stampers, and the rattle of…

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Miners' Congress. Socialism and Trades Union

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 3

The Miners Congress, now sitting at Leicester, has approved of a proposal for the nationalisation of the lands, minerals and railways. The Congress has also resolved…

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Mining. Gold Find at Fitzgerald's Valley

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 11 January 1897 · page 3

For some months past parties hare been fossicking for gold in and around Fossickcing Valley, and about a fortnight ago two men sunk a shaft in the creak and came upon…

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Mine Concentrates. Blayney Fields. Blaynky

National Advocate · Monday 11 January 1897 · page 2

Mining work at the various copper mines has been commenced again, and no doubt some good prospecting work will be put in…

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Important Diamond Mining Discovery

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 11 January 1897 · page 3

A Biogera correspondent informs us that quite an important development has just o[?]ccrred on the Australian Diamond Mines Proprietary Company's property by the…

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Mine Concentrates

National Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1897 · page 2

Several of the goldmines around Cobar have developed lodes of rich copper ore: the latest to come on copper is the Occidental, which has struck a good…

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Technical Instruction in Mining

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 January 1897 · page 2

The Minister for Mines, Hon. Sydney Smith, has forwarded the following "minute" to the Minister for Public Instruction: I have for some time past been…

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Mining. the Alluvial Discovery at Fitzgerald's Valley

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 January 1897 · page 3

Further information from Fitzgerald's Valley, where the recent discovery of alluvial gold was made, gives details of the find. The sinking will be about 30ft. The prospectors…

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To-Day's Telegrams. The Stockton Mine Disaster. the Jury Disagree. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 January 1897 · page 3

The inquest regarding the Stockton mine disaster, which has been proceeding for some time was brought near the end yesterday, when they retired. They were unable to…

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District Intelligence. Trunkey. Mining

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 14 January 1897 · page 3

Mining matters in this locality are very doll at present, bat shortly we have hopes for a revival. At Mount Gray Mr. Clarth has bis battery nearly complete and expects to…

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The New Guinea Goldfields. Exclusion of Chinkse. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 14 January 1897 · page 3

It has boon decided to exclude Chinese from the goldfields of New Guinea for n period of three yean after this proclamation, with a provision for a farther term of…

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Mining. CAPERTEE

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 15 January 1897 · page 3

Mining at Capertee has received a stimulus by several genuine finds lately. Reefing at Back Creek, Crudine, is in full swing, and the several claims at work are showing well…

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