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

Mining & the mines, 1890

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 3 June 1890 · page 2

ON Wednesday last Messrs. J. Anderson and T. Marks, of Sydney, two of the directors of the Breadalbane Gold-Mining Company, Victoria Flat, passed through…

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The New Carrington Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 June 1890 · page 2

MR. JAMES GRANT has given notice of his intention to apply to the Warden's Clerk on the 9th instant for a mining lease of land near Marulan which will include the site of the New…

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A New Goldfield in South Australia

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 June 1890 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Saturday.—Mr. J. V. Parkes, Acting-Inspector of Mines, has just visited a comparatively new goldfield at Wadnalinga, on the Oulnina run, 25 miles south of Mannahill…

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Gold out of Sea Sand

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 10 June 1890 · page 2

GOLD has been discovered in payable quantities to the north of Camden Haven Head, near Grant's Head, on the sea beach. The gold is procured by washing…

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Major's Creek Gold Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 June 1890 · page 6

Nine bars of chlorinated gold, weighing 4030z. and valued at £1600, have just been received in Sydney from Major's Creek gold mine, situated in the…

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Strike of Miners in France. LONDON, June 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 June 1890 · page 6

Six thousand miners have struck work at Etienne, in France…

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Breadalbane Gold-Mining Company

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 17 June 1890 · page 2

OPERATIONS during the week have been much retarded owing to wet weather. The tunnel has been started, reef going north, with from 3 to 4 feet of…

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Mining Lenses

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 17 June 1890 · page 2

In view of the dissatisfaction felt for years past by the mining community regarding the mode of announcing notices of refusal and cancellation of mining…

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Cancellation of Mining Leases

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 June 1890 · page 4

SINCE the beginning of the year nearly 800 mining leases have been gazetted as cancelled by the Minister for Mines because of the non-fulfilment of the labour conditions and the…

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Terrible Mine Explosion. LONDON, June 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 June 1890 · page 2

A disastrous explosion has taken place in a mine at Dunbar, Pennsylvania. Fifty miners are entombed. Further particulars regarding the disastrous…

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Eight Hours for Miners. LONDON, June 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 June 1890 · page 4

Sixty thousand miners at Barnsley, in Yorkshire, have adopted the Eight Hours Bill…

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Explosion in a Mine in Pennsylvania. LONDON, June 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 June 1890 · page 4

A disastrous explosion has taken place in a mine at Dunbar, in Pennsylvannia. Fifty miners are entombed…

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Mining Reform

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 20 June 1890 · page 3

HERETOFORE the working miner has complained, not without reason, that the Department of Mines has been administered more in the interest of the speculator than…

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Mining

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 June 1890 · page 4

MR. HARRIES WOOD, THE Under Scretary for Mines, and Mr. T. W. E. David, geological survey , have (says the “ S. M. Herald”) returned from inspecting the Muttama,…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 June 1890 · page 4

Suspension of labour conditions for three months was granted at the Warden's Court at Little River on the 13th inst, on No. 5, acres. and No. 15. 10 acres, situated at Peggy's Hill,…

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Mining Leases

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 24 June 1890 · page 2

SINCE the beginning of the year nearly 800 mining leases have been gazetted as cancelled by the Minister for Mines because of the non-fullfilment of the labour…

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[?]Ted Miners’ Association, Young Branch

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 25 June 1890 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the committee was held on Saturday. present—Messrs. U [?] Price [?] Scott, [?]…

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Breadalbane Gold- Mining Company

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 1 July 1890 · page 2

MR. J. T. CALDWELL, the legal manager of the Breadalbane Gold-Mining Company, Victoria Flat, has just returned from the mine. He says the machinery,…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 1 July 1890 · page 2

A HUGE boiler weighing about 18 tons, and which forms portion of the new plant being erected by the Sunny Corner Silver mining Company, reached there on…

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Worth More Than its Weight in Pure Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 July 1890 · page 4

THE report that a syndicate of rich Jews has offered no less a sum than £40,000 for the Vatican copy of the Hebrew Bible is confirmed by a London paper. The…

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