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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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The Price of Coal

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 10 April 1906 · page 2

The majority of the associated colliery-owners in the Neweastle and Maitland districts have now definitely decided to raise the selling price of the best screened, coal to 9m per ton from…

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A Mining Case

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 10

This was a suit in which the plaintiffs are Edward Joseph Mooney and Guis[?]ppe Osmetti, and the defendant John Milne Curran. Plaintiffs, in their statement of claim,…

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French Miners Strike

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 April 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The miniers on strike at Lens. in France, are wrecking the houses of the overseers and the engineer, destroying the telegraph wires and rivetting…

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Romance of a Gold Mine

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 10

Another chapter in the romantic story of the Mysore Goldmining Company closed yesterday (writes a London paper of March 15), when at the annual meeting in the…

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Stealing Gold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 11

At the Armidale Circuit Court, Lancolot B. Evans, who had pleaded guilty of stealing 100ozs. of gold, had nothing to say. His Honor, addressing prisoner, said:—…

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The Deepest Gold Mine

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 4

Unlike America, Australia cannot boast of having big rivers, enormous lakes and lofty mountains, but it can boast of having the deepest gold mine in the world. The mine…

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Conveyance of Coal

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 4

The N.C.S.N. Co's tenders have been received for the conveyance of coal as under from Newcastle—To the Tweed 7s 9d per ton, Richmond 8s, Clarence 8s. Nambucca…

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Deepest Mine in the World

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 10

The quartz obtained from a depth of 4224ft. in the New Chum Railway mine at B[?]ndigo has yielded at the rate of about an ounce to the ton. A few days ago a…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Cangai Copper Mine

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 7 May 1906 · page 2

A visit this week to the Grafton Copper Coy's smelting works at Cangai convinced us that in Mr. G. Simon the company have got hold of a smelter who…

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The World's Coal Deposits

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 8 May 1906 · page 1

The well-known journal " Stahi and Eisen" has recently published some figures, since quoted by " engineering," bearing upon this question. A…

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Another Mining Fatality. Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 May 1906 · page 5

At the B.H. Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, to-day a trucker named Leslie Thomas fell down a shaft a distance of 200ft. His head was battered…

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Coal Deposits

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 4

THE well-known journal Staid and Fisen has recently published some figures, some quoted by "engineering, bearing upon this question. A…

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Collar Copper Mines Sold. Sydney

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 5

The sale of the Great Cobar Copper Company's mines and works to an English Syndicate have practically been completed at a price of £800,000, One effect of the sale…

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Cobar Copper Mines Sold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—One of the largest sales of mining property made in this State was practically concluded on Wednesday, when the representatives of an English syndicate…

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Tin Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 11

Twenty years ago tin mining was a big industry around Glen Innes. Vegetable Creek and Emmaville. Teamsters plying their vocation from these fields to Grafton made…

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Richmond River Beach Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 6

A Brisbane "Courier" correspondent states that Mr. G. B. B. Elliott, M.E., who represents a big Melbourne syndicate, has been interesting himself in the mineral…

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Labour in Gold Mines

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 22 May 1906 · page 2

If you keep on asserting an error often enough and strongly enough (says the London "Daily Telegraph"), it stands a very good chance of becoming accepted as…

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Beach Mining

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 3

A BRISBANE Courier correspondent states that Mr. G.B.B. Elliott, M.E., who represents a big Melbourne syndicate, has been interesting himself in…

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Grafton Copper Mining Co

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 29 May 1906 · page 4

The first annual meeting of shareholders in this Company was held yesterday, Mr. Samuel See, chairman of the Board of Directors, presiding. The report, stated that…

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The Grafton Copper Mining Co

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 31 May 1906 · page 7

The first annual meeting of shareholders in the above Company was held on Monday last. Mr. Sam. See, chairman of the Board of Directors,…

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