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

Mining & the mines, 1892

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Gold Find at Little River

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 August 1892 · page 4

Considerable excitement was created at Little River at the beginning of the week by the reported discovery of rich alluvial gold at Bob's Creek. This creek, singularly enough…

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Mining News

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 August 1892 · page 4

CARCOAR, Thursday.—Yesterday the goldfield warden posted outside his office notice of a new gold discovery made by Shorlock and party in the locality known as Hancock and Bullock's conditional…

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Outrage by Miners in America. London, Aug. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 August 1892 · page 2

A desperate outrage has been committed by the miners working in Tracy City, Tennessee. About 360 State prisoners were employed in the mines. The presence of these was not acceptable to the free…

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The Barrier Miners' Strike. the Suspension of the Labour Conditions

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 August 1892 · page 4

ON Saturday last the Minister for Mines decided not to enforce the labour conditions in connection with the Barrier mines for one month from the 14th inst. It may be explained that this concession of…

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The Gold-Mining Industry of Siberia

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 August 1892 · page 4

ALL gold found in Siberia has to be sold immediately to the Government, who buy it at the current prices of St. Petersburg. A mine-owner is not…

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American Mines. London, Aug. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 August 1892 · page 2

New York telegrams announce that order has been restored at the mines in Tennessee and Bridgeport, where the unionists recently revolted against the employment of convict labour…

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Mining on Private Property

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 August 1892 · page 4

MR Copeland, the Minister for Lands, has well forward towards completion his Mining on Private Property Bill. This will be a measure containing 30 clauses. Taking it all in all this proposal is…

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Broken Hill Mines to be Re-opened

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 August 1892 · page 4

THE associated mines at Broken Hill have issued a manifesto setting forth the hours and wages they have resolved to adopt. Contracts for breaking ore and other material are to be lot at the discretion of…

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New Koh-i-Noor Gold and Silver Mining Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 August 1892 · page 4

The fourth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the New Koh-i-Noor Gold and Silver Mining Company was held at Tattersall's-chambers, Mr. H. S. Badgery, chairman…

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Convict Miners

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 August 1892 · page 3

FURTHER outrages have occurred in the United Sates through the employment of convict labour in the mines. A telegram just received from New York reports that…

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Gold Railway Passes

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 24 August 1892 · page 2

In Victoria, as in New South Wales, members of parliament on being elected receive gold medals which serve as railway passes. Those they are expected to return…

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Gold Rush near Carcoar

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 24 August 1892 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from Carcoar states that a new rush has taken place at Neville. Messrs. Bigley and Butchell, after prospecting for several months, came upon alluvial coarse…

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Mining on Private Property

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 August 1892 · page 2

THE Minister for Lands has his bill providing for mining on private property ready for submission to the Cabinet. The measure contains 30 clauses, and, in…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 August 1892 · page 4

CARCOAR, Monday.—Vaughan and party have just completed crushing 20 tons of quartz, yielding a total of I70z. 5dwt. of smelted gold. The reef is at present 4ft…

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Stoppage of Silver Mines. London, Aug. 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 August 1892 · page 4

Thirty-six silver mines in the State of Idaho (U.S.A.) have stopped work owing to the decline in the price of silver…

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The Miners' Riots in America. London, August 17

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 August 1892 · page 3

Further news has been received with respect to the disturbances at the mines at Olive Springs in Tennessee, United State, where the miners are insisting upon the…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 August 1892 · page 6

MOUNT M'DONALD, Wednesday.—Begley and party, who have for some weeks past been receiving Government aid in prospecting, have struck payable gold at Mount…

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Colliery Disaster in Wales. London, Aug. 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 August 1892 · page 4

A colliery has caught rice at Bridgend, and 140 miners are entombed. Later. Nineteen of the entombed miners at Bridgend,…

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Cable News. the Welsh Colliery Disaster. London, Aug. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 August 1892 · page 3

The rescue parties who have been working for many hours in the endeavour to save the men remaining entombed in the colliery at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, now find that they will be unable…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 31 August 1892 · page 3

RUSH NEAR CARCOAR.--A new rush has taken place at Neville. Messrs. Bigley and Butchell, after prospecting for several months, came upon an alluvial coarse and…

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