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

Mining & the mines, 1908

718 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 26 of 36

Millthorpe News. Mining at Forest Reefs

Leader · Friday 21 August 1908 · page 4

The local party have completed negotiations in connection with taking the Ballarat on tribute, and work has been commenced. Our sincere wish…

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A Miner’s Death [?]Lled by a Falling Machine. Sydney

Leader · Friday 21 August 1908 · page 3

Thomas Hopkins, engaged in the Broken Hill proprietary Mine was working a rock drilling machine, which was rigged to bore a hole in a…

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Mudgee Warden's Court. a Gold Mining Lease

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 24 August 1908 · page 2

A complaint having been lodged by Mr. William John Taylor, of Kent-street, Sydney, against the gold mining lease held by Messrs. Frame…

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Cadia Copper Mine

Leader · Monday 24 August 1908 · page 2

Operation? are for the present suspended at the Cadia Copper Mine pending the transfer of the property from the Newcastle Syndicate to the…

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Correspondence the Mount David Mine To the Editor

National Advocate · Monday 24 August 1908 · page 2

Sir,—In Tuesday's issue of the Advocate appeared an article from the pen of H. H.N, giving a description of our little township. From some of…

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Mining Wattle Flat

National Advocate · Wednesday 26 August 1908 · page 2

Owing to a plentiful supply of water now being available several crushings have been put through. Atherton and Sons crushed 48 tons from the…

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Warden's Court. (Before the Mining Warden.) Application for Suspension Refused

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 26 August 1908 · page 2

David Wilkin applied for the Suspension of labor conditions on mineral leases Nos. 811, 812, and 813, each having an area of 640 acres, in the parish of Black heath…

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The Cadia Mine

Leader · Thursday 27 August 1908 · page 2

The Cadia suspension would appear to be for an indefinite period. It is generally believed that the transfer of the property from the…

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Gold in New Caledonia

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 27 August 1908 · page 5

Mr. Xavier Toussaint, who describes himself as an old prospector for gold in Australia and California, writes to the "Erance Australe," of…

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A Good Mining Result

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 27 August 1908 · page 14

Mr. E. R, Scott, of Hargraves, is evidently on a good patch of mining country. Last week, from a crushing of two tons of stone, he…

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Fire in an American Colliery. Thirty Miners, Suffocated

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 28 August 1908 · page 5

Thirty miners were suffocated by a fire in a colliery at Oklahoma. Twenty-six bodies have been recovered…

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Mountains of Gold

Molong Argus · Friday 28 August 1908 · page 3

According to old legends exist in the Iabled land of EI Dorado; but all the gold in this marvellons land would not compen[?] bod for the loss of health and life, so likely to…

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A Flooded Mine. Tasmania

Leader · Friday 28 August 1908 · page 2

The Florence Mine at [?] was flooded by an [?] water through the underground reservoir being [?]ped. The miners at…

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Nymagee Copper Mine. Purchase of Mines. Growl Creek and Shuttleton Ores. Proposed Railway From Hehmidale. Nymagee Company Guarantees Working Loss

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 28 August 1908 · page 3

It is learned that the Nymagee Copper Company has secured the Crowl Creek-Shuttleton copper mines, in order to supply a suitable fluxing are for the Nymagee…

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Mining News. at Sofala

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 28 August 1908 · page 4

Mining is at a low ebb at present. The legal manager, Mr. T. H. Martyn, and Mr. Hungerford, general manager of the dredges, were here this week. Owing to the…

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Another Colliery Afire LONDON

National Advocate · Saturday 29 August 1908 · page 6

A fire at the Hapton Valley Colliery, Burnley, has destroyed the pit head and entombed 15 men who escaped safely by the air shafts to the surface, after…

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Colliery Fire At Oklahoma Thirty Lives Lost London

National Advocate · Saturday 29 August 1908 · page 3

In the fire at Haileyville Coalmine, Oklahoma, it is believed that thirty men were suffocated. Twenty-six bodies were recovered…

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Argentina Expends Her Gold on Defence London

National Advocate · Saturday 29 August 1908 · page 6

The Argentine Parliament has authorised the Government to spend eleven millions sterling on an increase of the fleet and a renewal of the field…

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Mudgee Warden's Court. the Search for Gold. Mr. John Hurley on the Warpath. Obtains Permission to Mine

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 31 August 1908 · page 2

At the Mudgee Warden's Court on Friday last the ex-member for Hartley—Mr. John Hurley—who, by the way, does not appear to be so…

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Mining at Trunkey

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 31 August 1908 · page 1

A trial crushing of five tons, from recently discovered reef on Golden Point, yielded about 25dwt. to the ton. This line of reef seems to contain the longest shoot…

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