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

Mining & the mines, 1891

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Monnt Costigan Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 April 1891 · page 2

THE Mount Costigan mice and plant were sold in Sydney last week for the sum of £3800 to Mr. G. Ceys, who is said to have purchased for a Sydney syndicate. This ends for the time…

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Miners' Strike in Westphalia. LONDON, April 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 April 1891 · page 4

Fifteen thousand miners in Westphalia have struck work for shorter hours. The strike is extending. Horrible Crime in New York…

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Mount Costigan Mine

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 April 1891 · page 2

THE Mount Costigan mine and plant were sold in Sydney last week for the sum of £3800 to Mr. G. Keys, who is said to have purchased for a Sydney syndicate…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 29 April 1891 · page 2

HENRY HERBERT, miner, an old resident of Araluen, was killed on Thursday last by the earth of a drive falling on him. He was alone when the accident happened, and it…

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The Miners' Strike in Germany. LONDON, April 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 3

The miners strike in Westphalia has resulted in a signal failure…

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The Boro Silver Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 May 1891 · page 2

NOTICE of application of Rowland and R. G. Hassall for mineral lease portion 184, 40 acres, of the Boro silver mines was made to the Mining Registrar, Braidwood, on Tuesday, as posted…

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Boro Silver Mines

Goulburn Herald · Friday 8 May 1891 · page 5

THE applications made in December last for the mineral leasing of the crown lands contained in portions 181, 182, 184, Bore mines, parish of Mulwaree, have been refused. The…

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The Miners' Strike in Belgium. LONDON, May 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 May 1891 · page 2

The miners' strike in Belgium is collapsing. It is expected that one-half the number of men will resume work on Tuesday…

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Great Southern Colliery

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 May 1891 · page 2

THE Great Southern Colliery, Moan Vale district, is Stated to ten new in hell work. Mr. Edward T. Kennedy, the lossee, has secured a contract for supplying the waiting-rooms at…

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Day Dawn Mine

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 May 1891 · page 2

A SMALL mill at the Day Dawn mine, Little River, Braidwood, run fourteen days last month, putting through 55 lone for a yield of 147 oz. gold…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 May 1891 · page 2

NELLIGEN.-- Clyne and Mallows roof, near Nelligen, lately purchased by Howitte and party, proves exceptionally rich, The lode runs north and south,…

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Mining at Marulan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 May 1891 · page 4

FROM what we can hear, mining at Marulan has been looking up to some purpose lately. On Saturday last fourteen trucks of ore with limestone for flux were dispatched to the Clyde…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 May 1891 · page 6

The following is the report received from Melbourne as the result of some stone forwarded there some time ago from Binalong:—No. I, trace of copper; No…

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Victorian Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 May 1891 · page 6

Melbourne, Saturday.—The annual report of the Mining Department for 1890 has just been printed. During the year the Geological Survey Department has…

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Miners' Conference at Chester. LONDON, May 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 May 1891 · page 4

A miners' conference hat been held at Cheater, at which it was decided to invite the Australian and American miners to join the International Miners' Federation…

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Braidwood Mining Warden's Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 June 1891 · page 4

AT the above court on Wednesday, 27th May, before J. L. King, Esq., Mining Warden, J. R. Filewood, duly authorised representative of Frank Moran, Francis Dolmen, and Marian…

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The Miners' Strike at Pennsylvania. LONDON, May 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 June 1891 · page 4

The miners' strike at Scottdale, Pennsylvania, has collapsed. The condition of the strikers is something terrible…

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Mining at Windellama

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 June 1891 · page 4

THE first load of machinery to work the claim at Jerralong held by A. Gegg and party was despatched from Goulburn yesterday. There is said to be a favourable prospect of finding…

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Goulburn Gold Mining Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 June 1891 · page 4

THE general meeting of the shareholders in the above company was held at Mr. John McInnes's Family Hotel on Friday evening, Mr. A. de Lisle Hammond being in the chair…

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A Money "Corner."—The Drain of American Gold. LONDON, June 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 June 1891 · page 4

Fifteen banks, sixteen trust companies, and a number of large money-lenders are combining at New York in order to maintain a uniform rate of interest, and to stop the flow of American…

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