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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1870

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Meeting of Miners at Trunky Creek

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 12 January 1870 · page 2

THE recent visit of Mr. E. N. Emmett, of Victoria, to Turnky Creek, where, with other Victorians, he still holds considerable interest, has been the occasion and means of drawing together one of the most…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 14 January 1870 · page 2

JANUARY 9.--The excitement of the Lachlan contest is over, in comparison with which the one now going on fop the Gold-fields South appears to be quite a tame affair. Still a few remarks are…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Friday 21 January 1870 · page 3

JANUARY 16.--Last week, the thermometer was ranging in the shade from 102 to 109, in fact the opprossiveness of the temperature was unbearable, producing sickness among us in all sorts…

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A Visit to the Woolgarlo Lead Mines

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 January 1870 · page 2

ON Tuesday last, in fulfilment of a promise of long standing, we paid a visit to the Woolgarlo mine. It is nearly four yours since a report appeared in this journal of the then state of…

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The Woolgarlo Lead Mining Company

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 January 1870 · page 3

THE first half-yearly meeting of the above company was hold in the Exchange, Sydney, last Monday, Mr. H. Prince presiding. The following report was submitted to the shareholders:--…

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Shocking Colliery Explosion and Great Loss of Life

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 7

On November 15, an explosion took place in No. 5 pit of the Moss Hall Coal Company's collieries, at Platt Bridge, three miles from Wigan. The shaft is two hundred and…

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The Mining Laws

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 2

A DEPUTATION consisting of Mr. G.A. Lloyd, M.L.A., Mr. Walter Church, M.L.A., and Mr. E. N. Emmett, and representing the miners of Trunkey Creek, waited yesterday…

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Carriage of Coal on the Western Railway

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 2

ON Tuesday afternoon a deputation, consisting of Messrs. J. Mc Kenzie, T. Wilton, and R. Anderson, accompanied by Mr. J. H. Neale, M.L.A., waited on the Hon. J…

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Grenfell Mining Report. [From the Record.]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 2

Since our last issue payable gold has been obtained in a new gully, known as the Milkman’s. This gully joins the Two Mile, and hence an important question bas arisen as to…

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Terrible Mining Disaster

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 February 1870 · page 2

The New York papers report a terrible mining accident at Stocton, Pa. A coal-mine suddenly caved in, four houses were swallowed up. The residents of houses Nos. 3 and 4 were saved from a…

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Local and General. Mining Companies at Young

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 February 1870 · page 2

JANUARY 31. -- In continuation of my letter of the 27th inst. Tho Bel more Company is purely Victorian, having boon formed at Ballarat, and is comprised of 3000 shares of £2 10s, per share,…

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Mining Companies at Young

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1870 · page 3

JANUARY 31.—The Belmore Company is purely Victorian, having been formed at Ballarat, and is comprised of 3000 shares of £2 10s. per share, amounting to a working capital of £7500. The amount paid for…

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Grenfell Mining Report. [From the Record.]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 12 February 1870 · page 2

EFFORTS are being made to open a new gully running from tho easterly side of the range that divides the Two Mile from the Lucknow and Welcome reefs. Messrs Jones…

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Emu Creek Gold-field

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 February 1870 · page 2

FEBRUARY 6.-- The Two-mile is turning out very well, and shafts are daily bottomed on gold. The lead is traced already over two miles, and the prospects are as high as three-quarters of a…

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Serious Colliery Riots

The Yass Courier · Friday 18 February 1870 · page 3

The long contemplated attack upon the homes and persons of non-unionists, at the Thorncliffe and Chapel-town Collieries, is now a reality. At the first information received by the police force a small…

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Grenfell Mining He Port. [From the Record.]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 February 1870 · page 3

There are now ealimated to be something more than two hundred claims being efficiently worked upon the several lends. If the frontage claims and leases that comprise…

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New Cold-fields Regulations. Department o[?]Lands. Sydney; 17th February. 1870. Regulations—gold Fields

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 February 1870 · page 4

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to approve of the following new Regulations made in pursuance of the Gold…

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Capital for the Gold-fields. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 March 1870 · page 3

SIR,-- I observe in your report of the proceedings in the Legislative Assembly the remarks which fell from the hon. member for the Southern Gold-fields in reference to the existing state of the…

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Grenfell Mining Report. [From the Record.]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 March 1870 · page 2

THE announcement by Mr. Foster to the deputation, that no more leases of new alluvial ground would be issued, has occasioned a new complication in the affairs of…

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The Gold Robbery at Ballarat

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 12 March 1870 · page 2

FOR some months past the directors of the Great Northern Junction Gold Mining Company have suspected that an extensive and systematic robbery of gold was taking…

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