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

Mining & the mines, 1897

706 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 4 of 36

The Minister for Mines at Cobar. COBAR

National Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1897 · page 3
Also in Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

The Hon. Mr. Sydney Smith Minister for Mines, Mr. Waddell and other members of Parliament arrived here last night. They were engaged in exploring…

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Mining at Wattle Flat. Wattle Flat

National Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1897 · page 2

The delay in the sale of mines to English companies, combined with the dry weather and intense heat, keep mining affairs in a father dull state. The…

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A Flourishing Mine. GUNDAGAI

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 3

Mr. Eissler, managing director of the Gibraltar Consolidated Gold-mining Company, of Adelong, states that for the January crushing 500 tons of stone…

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Mining. Wattle Flat

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 2

At Wattle Flat mining matters are being pushed ahead on all claims. At the Groat Victoria claim they are sinking with all speed tho old shaft, while numerous levels are…

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A Mining Case. PARKES

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 3

A case of some importance to persons interested in mining was heard before the mining warden, Mr. E. A. L. Sharpe, to-day. The party of tributers that some…

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Bathurst District Court. Sitting As Mining Appeal Court. Thursday, February 4Th, 1897. (Before His Honor, Acting Judge Wade.) FLYNN v. DEDICOURT

National Advocate · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 2

In this case Nicholas Flynn appealed from a decision of Mr. Warden Smith dismissing his complaint against. William Dedicourt for cutting away his Spring…

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Victorian Mining Notes

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 2

Brief telegraphed information was received by the Minister of Minos last week of a discovery of rich stone in a large formation on the property of the Mount Tara Crown mine…

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Mine Concentrates. Burraga Fields. Burraga

National Advocate · Monday 8 February 1897 · page 2

Mining at the Isabella is assuming active operations again. The leases for most of the claims have been issued, and it is expected a few more men will…

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Mining, the Fitzgerald Valley Field

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 8 February 1897 · page 3

From a gentleman just returned from Fitzgerald's Valley we learn that prospects there are not extraordinarily bright. The prospectors had bottomed on gold, but our…

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Mine Concentrates. the Rush at Fitzgerald's Valley. Windledon

National Advocate · Monday 8 February 1897 · page 2

The name that Cousins' land had been thrown open for mining, and the good show that the prospectors have, has caused a great number of arrivals on the…

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2nd Edition The World A Mining Tragedy. Thursday Island

National Advocate · Monday 8 February 1897 · page 3

A mine manager named Cockburn was shot yesterday at Horne Island by a dismissed miner named Harris. Harris afterwards shot himself. Cockburn's…

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Mine Concentrates

National Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1897 · page 3

We understand that the energetic mining expert, Mr. J. W. James, C.E., is severing his connection with the Newbridge Gold Mining Co. and that all the…

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Mining. Palmer's Oakey. Another Find

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 February 1897 · page 3

Mining in the vicinity of Palmer'a Oakey appears to be reviving again, and some fresh alluvial has recently been opened out with goods results. On Friday a party of four…

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A Coal Mine Afire

National Advocate · Thursday 11 February 1897 · page 2

John Elliot's coal mine, at New Straitsville, U.S.A. was set afire by strikers twelve years ago, and was afterwards abandoned. It is still burning. It has…

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Mine Concentrates. Rush at Palmer's Oakey

National Advocate · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 3

An alluvial rush has taken place in the vicinity of Palmer's Oakey. On Friday last a party of prospectors put down shafts at the foot of the hill, about a…

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New Guinea Gold Fields. Sickness and Starvation. Brisbane

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 12 February 1897 · page 2

A telegram received from Cooktown yesterday stated that the schooner Clars Ethel had arrived from Woodlark and Samarai with thirty-six miners, one of whom was suffering…

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Mining. TUENA

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 3

The Golden Dyke mine, Tuens, has finished a crushing of 114 tons for a yield of 7dwt. per too. O'Hara and Teonant, working shareholders, are now raising good stone…

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The Stolen Gold. SYDNEY

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 15 February 1897 · page 3

A. rumong which has not yet been verified was circulated in the city this morning to the effect that 1000 of the soterelgna supposed to be portion, oft the solen from the…

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Growth of the Mining Industry

The Bathurst Post · Monday 15 February 1897 · page 2

DURING the past year there has been a phenomenal development of activity in the mining industry in New South Wales. This fact is well brought out…

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