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

Mining & the mines, 1900

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Mining News. Sunny Corner

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 4

The different workings at Bob's Creek are doing good and satisfactory work, getting in as much stone as possible in the shortest time, but at present no results are obtainable. Dark…

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Trouble at the Vale of Clwydd Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 4

Last Saturday the Vale of Clwydd minors met in the miners' room to nominate men for the position of check weighman at the pit. Charles Perry and Henry Watson were nominated. The…

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Mining. the Tin Pot Rush

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 4

The Department of Mines states that three months notice must be given to owners under their Settlement, Leases…

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Coke for the Burraga Mine

National Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1900 · page 2

The extremely large order of 2000 tons of coke has just been lodged by the proprietors of the Burraga copper mines and is to be delivered at the George's Plains railway…

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Mining. the Tinpot Bush. Another Promising Discovery. Grenfell

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 February 1900 · page 3

Messrs Hewson and party struck payable, wash at half-past 10 this morning. The first dish panned five groins. The last makes a total of seven successive claims on…

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Tinpot Gold Rush

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 3

A meeting was held at Tinpot on Wednesday evening, when resolutions were passed asking tho Minister for Minos and Warden to resume the Old Man and other springs on…

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Mining. the Turon Dredge

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 3

Turon River yield from No. 1 dredge for the week ending 24th inst. shows a further increase of 5 ounces, the total gold won during tho period being 48 oz. for 128…

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Mining. Cobar

Leader · Wednesday 28 February 1900 · page 7

Mr J. M. Scott furnishes the following ;— “The Mount Drysdale G.M. Co. pays a 4s dividend on the 26th instant. Another parcel of 118 tons of ore has just been despatched…

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Mining. the Decadence of Lucknow

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 February 1900 · page 2

Great changes in the condition of affairs at Lucknow are being effected (says the Orange " Bun.") All the workings north or north-west of the Reform are said to be…

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The Southern Collieries. Movement for an Advance

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 6

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.--For the weEk ended on Saturday last the collieries worked the following times:--Helensburg, 6 days; South Clifton, 44; Bulli, 4; Woonona, 6; South Bulli, 5 ;…

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The Coal Trade

National Advocate · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 2

Outside circumstances attach a good deal of interest to the coal trade at the present moment. Coal is one of the sinews of modern war. For a Power…

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Mining News

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 4

Mt. David : Crushed 710 tons, yielding 209oz. 5dwt. retorted gold. The gold yield from the Turon Dredge No. 1 for the week ending February 24 was 48oz. for…

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Mining. Tuena

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 4

A miner named Wilfred Collins, 20 years of age, was killed by falling down a shaft in the Garnet Mine, Tuena…

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The Trouble at the Vale of Clwydd Mine. the Manager's Statement

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 6

Mr. Broughall said on Monday in reply to the paragraph which appeared in last Friday's MERCURY, re the dismissal of some of the employees for appointing a checkweighman --that it was…

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Selling Price of Coal. Newcastle Undermining. (Illamarra Mercury, March 1.)

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 4

Not very long ago an understanding, if not an actual agreement, was arrived at between the Newcastle coal-owners to fix the minimum selling price of coal at 8s per ton. That agreement…

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Old Friends of Mine

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 11

THE night is still and silent, and I hear the mopoke's call. Whilst the mosquitos are keeping up a constant rhyme…

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Cargo Mining. [Communicated.]

Leader · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 8

The Cargo Gold Mines, Limited, have let their ground to J. S. Mayne and party under a tribute agreement for 12 months, with the use of all the Company's machinery…

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The Tinpot Rush. Proclaimed a Payable Gold Field. Township Being Marked Off. Grenfell

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 2

There is nothing of any consequence from the Tinpot rush. The last prospects are not very encouraging, and letters from minors on the ground to' friends at a distance do not…

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Fatal Fall of Coal

National Advocate · Monday 5 March 1900 · page 2

A telegram from Newcastle states that through a fall of coal in the Stockton Colliery, a miner named Roach was killed on Saturday. The unfortunate fellow was at…

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Mining. the Turon Dredge

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 5 March 1900 · page 2

An exhibit of l66oz. 9dwt. 12gr. gold from the Turon River No. 1 dredge created considerable interest in the vestibule of tho Sydney Stook Exchange during the forer on…

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