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

Mining & the mines, 1891

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Residential Gold-field Leases

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1891 · page 4

SOME difficulty having arisen through a regulation issued under the last Land Act requiring applicants for residential leases on gold-fields to submit their applicats…

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The Mount Morgan Mine. LONDON, Dec. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 January 1891 · page 4

The English shareholders of the Mount Morgan mine complain that the delay in forming a London resister of that company's share is tending to seriously depress the value of their…

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Mining at Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 January 1891 · page 4

ARRANGEMENTS have been made with Mr. Maddrell by a Mr. Headley, on behalf of a Melbourne syndicate, to work some ground at Reedy Creek, which has been proved to contain a good…

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Cable News. Colliery Explosion in Silesia. LONDON, Dec. 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 January 1891 · page 4

A disastrous explosion has taken place at the Wilezeck Colliery, Silesia. Fifteen miners have been taken out dead, and 30 others are still entombed in the mine…

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A Submerged Mine—A Lessee Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—A fatalaccident occurred this morning at a small coal mine near Tighe's, hill, on land rented from the Ferndale Coal Company by four lessees…

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Coal for the Royal Navy. LONDON, Jan. 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 3

The Lords of the Admiralty propose to store 2000 tons of coal in the vicinity of Sydney harbour, unless the Government provides land and builds reasonable coal bulks…

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The Boro Silver-mine

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1891 · page 3

SOME time ago it was stated that this mine was attracting much attention in mining circled, and on Friday 12th December last there was a great rush to take possession of…

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The Day of Dawn Gold Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 January 1891 · page 3

WE are informed that the gold obtained from the last crushing at the Day Dawn mine realised £490 7s, being at the rate of £4 2s 8d per ounce. the manager reports that the reef in the…

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Mining Discovery in the Mittagong District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 January 1891 · page 4

THE raining warden, Mr. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., reports that the men prospecting the Wingecarribee River for gems, &o., under the recommendation and assistance of the…

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The Decline of Gold Mining in Victoria

Goulburn Herald · Friday 16 January 1891 · page 2

THE hope entertained in the early part of last year, that the gold yield for the twelve months would show an increase over the record of 1889, has…

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The Pambula Goldfield

Goulburn Herald · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 2

MATTERS in connection with this field are developing quietly. Considering the vast extent of gold-bearing stone now proved to be far more than payable,…

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The Day Dawn Gold Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 2

The manager reports in the following satisfying way: "During the week drive east advanced 15 feet and holed through to winze. We are now raising splendid stone, both for quality and…

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Gold Discovery at Sudest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 2

Cooktown, Monday.—The Hygeia, which arrived from Sudest on Saturday night, reports that a miner there had found a splendid gold-boaring reef on the western part of the island…

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Mining at Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 January 1891 · page 2

THE Day Dawn is opening out splendidly. A now reef has been struck wider than any that has yet been worked, and the stone is exceedingly rich. Some of that which was being…

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Cable News. Gold Discovered in South Africa. LONDON, Jan. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 February 1891 · page 4

Further alluvial deposits of large extent have been discovered in Mushonsland, in South Africa…

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Wallah Proprietary Silver Mines. The mining manager reports for the fort-

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 2

night ending 31st January, aa follows :— January 24.—I have taken the men out of the north drive at north shaft, and put them on in No. 1 slope north of south…

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The Cardiff Coal Trade. LONDON, Feb. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 4

The threatened general strike of wharf labourers in the port of Cardiff has taken place, and trade in consequence is paralysed. The directors of the Bute Docks have resolved to…

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The Mining Accident near Mount Mc Donald

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 4

MOUNT McDONALD, Friday.—The Battery Point Mine, where two men were buried yesterday by a fall of earth in a tunnel, is situated at the junction of the Lachlau and…

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Mining at Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 4

THE claim which has been going on working in Dransfield's Paddock at Jembaicumbone for some three years back, and which paid fair dividends for a time, has been given up, the…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 February 1891 · page 2

MR. THOS. E. PARRY of Granville passed through Crookwell on Monday en route for Sydney, taking with him 1 cwt. of gold ore taken from Mr. Maguire's claim…

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