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

Mining & the mines, 1892

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The Gold Discovery at Araluen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 3

THE essays that are being get from prospects alongside the reef recently found near to Araluen are still of very encouraging character. One piece that wet crushed on Thursday, in weight about half…

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South African Gold-fields. London, Feb. 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1892 · page 4

Mr. Campbell, a mining expert, stated in the course of an interview with the Pall Mall Gazette that the gold-fields in the Rand district, South Africa, yielded 120,000 oz. of gold in December,…

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Mining in the Braidwood District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1892 · page 4

WE (Braidwood Despatch) have paid a visit to the scene of the new gold discovery on the Reidsdale side of the Dirty Butter Creek. Although it is in very rough and precipitous country persons can…

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Impending Miners' Strike in England and Wales. London, Feb. 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1892 · page 4

Two hundred and eighty thousand miners, in the colliery districts of England and Wales are handing in notices to the masters that they intend to cease work on the 12th March, in accordance with a…

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Gold at Mudgee

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 2 March 1892 · page 2

Adams and Melbourne have struck a rich reef in the old Jubilee claim five miles from Windeyer and 20 from Mudgee. The gold was struck in the tunnel at a depth…

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Mining at Tuena

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 2 March 1892 · page 2

THE Lucky Hit gold mine, Tuena, on Tuesday, the 23rd February, washed three dishes from the black vein in Barnett's shaft, for a yield of 2oz, of rough gold…

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The Colliery Difficulty in England. London, Feb. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 March 1892 · page 4

The coal-owners approve of the restriction of the output, hoping thereby to benefit by the increased prices. The Northumberland miners have submitted to a…

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Mining at Carcoar and Tuena

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 March 1892 · page 4

CARCOAR, Monday.—At Young's paddock Mathewson's trial crushing of stone from the handling shaft gave 12 oz. 5 dwt, of gold from 4 tons of stone, got at a depth of 55 ft. This vein…

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The Coal Trade in Europe. London, March 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 March 1892 · page 6

Many factories in the Midlands and the North of England are being closed owing to the want of coal. The situation in Sheffield is alarming. Cutlers,…

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The Tate Tin Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 March 1892 · page 2

THE Tate River tin mines of Northern Queensland are being rapidly developed. An area of 95 acres of alluvial tin ground, once taken up Mr. John Robb, the railway contractor, is now owned by a…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1892 · page 2

A REPORT in the S. M. Herald states that "the Tate River tin-mines of Northern Queensland are being rapidly developed. An area of 95 acres of alluvial tin ground, once…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 March 1892 · page 4

BRAIDWOOD, Monday.—Mining operations are being actively carried on at the new reef found near Bell's Creek. The miners are now down 14ft. into the lode, but are not through yet. Thirty tons of…

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The Colliery Strike. 300,000 Miners Out. London, March 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 March 1892 · page 4

The German Miners' Federation has advised its members to help the English colliers, who are to go out on strike to-day, by refusing to execute English orders…

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Cable News. the Colliery Explosion in Belgium. London, March 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 March 1892 · page 2

It has now been ascertained that 150 miners perished by the terrible colliery explosion at Charleroi, in Belgium. The pit is on fire, and flames are shooting from the…

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The British Colliery Difficulty. London, March 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 March 1892 · page 4

It is understood that if work at the northern collieries is suspended for more than a week it will have the result of throwing 50,000 potters out of employment…

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Mining in the Braidwood District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 March 1892 · page 7

SOME very important now reef discoveries have (says the Braidwood Dispatch) been made at Little River during the past fortnight. Two brothers of the name of Meredith, who have recently come to…

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The Coal-miners' Strike. London, March 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1892 · page 4

The price of coal has further fallen 2s per ton. The Miners' Federation has decided in future that the miners shall work only five days a week in order to reduce the output of coal…

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Mining at Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 March 1892 · page 4

WARDEN KING, of Braidwood, has informed the Minister for Mines and Agriculture that lately men have been working on the Little River gold-field, and on Tuesday he saw some specimens which…

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The Coal Mimers' Serike. London, Mar. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1892 · page 3

Many of the minors who came out in obedience to the recent orders of the Miners' Federation are dissatisfied at the affair, which has been followed in several instances by the refusal of masters to…

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The Mining Depression. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1892 · page 4

SIR,—It is a pity to see such distress in a colony as this, with all its mineral wealth, practically speaking, untouched—a mine of untold richness in gold, silver, copper, &c., &c., running in parallel…

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