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

Mining & the mines, 1899

1,428 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 25 of 72

Mining News

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 9 June 1899 · page 4

Messrs. Leonard Dodds and Co. report the output of the Great Cobar mine for last week as 84 tons 8cwt. of refined ingot copper. SUNNY CORNER. Wednesday.-- Lean and party…

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The Alameda Gold Robbery. £500 Reward

National Advocate · Friday 9 June 1899 · page 2

Through the Sydney manager of the line, Mr. F. W. Jackson, a reward is offered of £500 for the information leading to the arrest of the thief or…

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Good Find of Gold at Crudine

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 9 June 1899 · page 4

SOFALA, Saturday.--W. Watts and Sinclair (3) struck some fair gold at the Crudine, about, seven miles from here. Last week they bottomed at about three feet on a high bar, and obtained thirty pounds…

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Mining. in the Abercrombie District

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 9 June 1899 · page 2

From Mr. Radburn's sluicing claim, previously mentioned, I made my way to what is known as Atkins and Brown's claim. This is situated about half a mile below the…

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Federation. the Hon. J. Cook, Minister for Mines, at Carcoar

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 9 June 1899 · page 2

A MEETING, convened by the Carcoar Federal League for the purpose of substantially placing before the electors a realistic purport of the main…

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Dredging the Rivers for Gold. The System Condemned in Victoria, Destruction of Rivers. It Hampers the Farming Industry

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 9 June 1899 · page 5

In a recent issue of the Guardian we published an article from a Sydney paper condemning the indiscriminate dredging of our rivers…

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Mining at Condobolin

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1899 · page 6

THERE is a small mining boom developing at Condobolin, which promises to have an important effect upon the progress of that place. A fortnight ago some good finds of gold were…

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Mining and Common Sense

Leader · Saturday 10 June 1899 · page 2

MR. NEWMAN, M.P., has written a lengthy letter to a local paper on the subject of reworking old mines, and repeats many of the familiar stories of the wonderful successes…

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Federation. the Minister for Mines at Blayney

The Blayney Advocate and Carcoar Herald · Saturday 10 June 1899 · page 2

The Hon. J. Cook (Minuter for Mines and Agriculture) visited Blayney on Tuesday last. He arrived by the evening passenger train, and was met by the Mayor…

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The Lithgow Miners. No Immediate Settlement Likely. Lithgow

National Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1899 · page 2

It is reported in connection with the trouble at the mines that fourteen days' notice has been given by the men working on coal at the New Vale pit for the…

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Chinese Chicanery. More Mining Concessions. Doubling on Former Agreements. London

National Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1899 · page 2

It is reported from Pekin that the Chinese Government has granted mining concessions to Frenchmen in six districts in the province of Szechuan…

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Mine Concentrates. Mining at Wattle Flat. Wattle Flat

National Advocate · Monday 12 June 1899 · page 2

The Great Oakey Company, having now a supply of water in their new concrete dam, propose to start crushing next week,…

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Mining Accident near Wollongong. WOLLONGONG

National Advocate · Monday 12 June 1899 · page 3

A serious fall of earth, evidently caused by a subterranean How of water, has taken place in Corrimal Colliery. It is estimated that when the fall took…

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Dread of the British. Uitlanders and the Goldfields. London, Friday afternoon

National Advocate · Monday 12 June 1899 · page 2

At the conference between Sir Alfred Milner and President Kruger, the British High Commissioner suggested that failing the franchise the Uitlanders…

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Mine Concentrates. Sofala

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1899 · page 2

The dredge was under steam on Saturday, and everything worked satisfactorily. The contractors are very busy preparing for a start in a few days…

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Two Boys and a Piece of Coal

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1899 · page 2

On Monday last a piece of coal fell oft a cart which was being driven by a lad named Frank Soden and was the cause of an unfriendly encounter between the driver and…

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The Coal Trouble at Lithgow. LITHGOW

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 13 June 1899 · page 2

Tho early part of last week a special effort was made to settle the present weighing trouble so far as it affects Eskbank Colliery. A deputation of leading townsmen, together…

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Mine Concentrates. Peak Hill

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1899 · page 2

Paton and party, Tomingly, put through a trial crashing of 46 tons At the Cottle buttery, Peak Hill, for a re[?] 36oz of smelted gold. The reef varies…

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Mine Concentrates. Cobar

National Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1899 · page 3

The Occidental tank caught enough water to run the cyanide works for about three weeks. There 100-ton vats of tailings are now in course of…

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Gold-Dredging

The Bathurst Post · Thursday 15 June 1899 · page 4

GOLD-DREDGING has, as the Americans say, "caught on" in New Zealand, From recent files we learn that it has assumed the premier position in…

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