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

Mining & the mines, 1878

39 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2

Gold in the Land of Midian

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 26 January 1878 · page 7

It is not at all unlikely, from circumstances recently come to light, that Palestine and the north-western parts of Arabia, especially the…

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The Newcastle Miners

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 13 February 1878 · page 4

IT is rather remarkable that the offer of Mr. Watkins, the railway contractor, to employ five hundred coalminers from the Newcastle district as labourers on one of the northern railway extensions has met with…

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The Lithgow Valley Iron-mines

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 13 February 1878 · page 4

ABOUT four years ago a few capitalists, struck with the facilities which presented themselves in the neighborhood of Lithgow Valley for the manufacture of iron, determined to risk the adventure. They…

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The Greatest Mining Work in the World

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 February 1878 · page 3

AFTER thirty-three years of uninterrupted labour the great undertaking of the Rothschonberger water-adit is so far completed as to admit of its use. The method of…

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The Gold Discoveries in New Guinea. Brisbane

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 March 1878 · page 4

MR. Ingham writes from Cape Moresby on the 8th February —I have been here several days and have made all possible inquires in re gold. The first specimen…

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Colliery Explosion. March 1

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 4

A colliery explosion baa taken place at Kilsyth. Sixteen persons were killed…

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Siberian Mines. (From the Pall Mall Gazette.)

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 17 April 1878 · page 4

THE exiles who live in the mines are convicts of the worst type and political offenders of the best. The murderer for his villany. the intelligent and honest Polish rebel…

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The Match Box. a S[?] of the Australian Gold [?] ([?] by Parkee, a [?] MAN) (Continued.)

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 April 1878 · page 4

It wasn't my whistling she was in love with; it was my nuggets. She had made up her mind to have them, and have them she did. That's what I like in Rattling Bet…

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The Mare That Was Shod with Gold

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 April 1878 · page 6

Referring to the mare that was recently shod with gold at Edinburgh, Man about Town, in the Sporting Gazette, says:— That mare has a history. Her owner, Miss…

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Terrible Colliery Accident at Kilsyth. Glasgow, March 8

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 4 May 1878 · page 2

A TERRIBLE colliery accident occurred this morning at Kilsyth, not far from Blantyre, where an accident of a similar nature took place a few months ago. Mining enterprise…

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Fearful Colliery Explosion at Wigan. London, June 8

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 12 June 1878 · page 2

A colliery explosion has occurred at Wigan; in Lancashire. The number killed is 230,…

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Thompson's Creek Copper-mines

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 26 June 1878 · page 4

IT affords me great pleasure to be able to furnish the following brief but interesting account the above mine which are situated from Tuena about twelve miles over rather a rough road on land owned…

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Rewards for Gold Discoveries

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 July 1878 · page 2

THE appended notices have just been issued by the Minister for Mines: -- Department of Mines, Sydney, 27th June, 1878…

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Miners’ Meeting at Wombat

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 17 July 1878 · page 3

A MEETING of the miners of Wombat was held on Saturday last at the Australism Arms for the purpose of taking into consideration the desirability of petitioning the Minister for…

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Official Mining Reports

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 4

THE ‘Annual Report of the Department of Mines for 1877’ has come to [?]and, and from it we extract the following reports having reference to this district:…

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Official Mining Reports

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 August 1878 · page 4

THE ‘Annual Report of the Department of Mines for 1877’ has come to hand, and from it we extract the following reports having reference to this district:…

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Department of Mines

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 2

THE annual report of the department of mines for the year 1877 has just been issue from the government printing-office. It forms a book of two hundred and twelve…

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Gold at Tirranna

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 3

GOLD AT TIRRANNA.—Lately the diggings at Tirranna have been visited by our townsmen, Mr. H. Blackshaw and Mr. Morris. The former has shown a very nice sample of gold of several pennyweights…

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Official Mining Reports

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 4

THE Annual Report of the Department of Mines for 1877’ has come to hand, and from it we extract the following reports having reference to this district :—…

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Official Mining Reports

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 21 August 1878 · page 4

THE, ‘Annual Report of the Department of Mines for 1877’ has come to hand, and from it we extract the following reports having reference to this district :…

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