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

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 6

AN extraordinary special general meeting of the shareholders in the New Koh-i-noor Gold and Silver Mining Company was held in the company's office, Tattersall's-chambers, Hunter-street, Sydney,…

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Discovery of Gold

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 2

BURRAGA, Wednesday. -- Yesterday a man named Amos Tailor, who has been prospecting for the last couple of weeks on Isabella River, eight miles from Burraga,…

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Mining at Markdale

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 2

OUR correspondent writes as follows: -- Now that the holidays are over, work in the mines has been resumed in good earnest. The Enterprise Company are…

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Mining. a Promising Claim

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 2

FOR some weeks past rumours have been floating about the town of the discovery of an exceedingly rich and promising lead and silver mine, and it was vaguely hinted that we had…

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The Cullulla Lead and Silver Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 January 1893 · page 2

OPERATIONS at the Cullulla Lead and Silver Mine, which has for some time been attracting a good deal of notice in the city, are being pursued assidnously Mr. Head, formerly shift boss at Sunny Corner and…

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Mining at Markdale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 January 1893 · page 5

THE Gazette's correspondent Writes as follow:—Now that the holidays are over, work in the mines has been resumed in good earnest. The Enterprise Company are raising stone which looks well, so far…

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Mining at Carcoar

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 4

CARCOAR, Friday.—At Jones's freehold, near Tuena Creek, the owners are now down 75ft, with a 2ft width reef, but with a very narrow shoot, their only level being in 40ft at a southerly direction…

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Mining at Markdale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 3

CROOKWELL, Monday.—News from Markdale to-day states that much richer stone than that sent to Crookwell on Saturday has been raised from the Caledonian mine. It is also reported that a rich…

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Mining at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1893 · page 4

CROOKWELL, Saturday.—There was a good deal of excitement in town to-day owing to some splendid specimens of quartz being brought in from the Caledonian mine at Markdale, Longmore, Ashton,…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 3

GOOD news has reached town concerning the doings at the Markdale mines. On Saturday last some splendid specimens were brought in from the Caledonia reef -- Longmore, Ashton,…

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Cullulla Silver and Lead Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1893 · page 2

NEWS was received this morning from the manager that from the prospecting shaft the shifts have driven 60 feet north through solid galens. Specimens which appear to be excellent were…

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The Spa-Jessop Mining Works

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 January 1893 · page 5

IN our last issue we expressed the hope that the big dam in connection with the Spa-Jessop Hydraulic Sluicing Company at Nadgingomar had been filled by the heavy rain…

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Mining at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1893 · page 4

CROOKWELL, Saturday—Further particulars from the Caledonia mine, Markdale, state that the stone is improving as the reef developes. The alluvial previously reported has turned out to be only a few…

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Mining at Markdale

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 January 1893 · page 3

FURTHER particulars received from the Caledonia Mine at Markdale state that the stone is increasing in richness as the reef developes. The report that payable…

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The Spa-jessop Mining Works

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1893 · page 3

A SPECIAL messenger arrived in town on Monday evening convoying to the Goulburn shareholders the gratifying news that the recent heavy rains had put a large…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 4

MOST satisfactory news has been received regarding the Nadging[?]mer Dam, constructed for sluicing purposes by the Spa-Jessop Mining Company. On Monday morning the water was three fear stove…

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Mining Disaster in Wales. London, Jan. 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 January 1893 · page 2

A mining calamity has taken place at Aberdare, in Glamorgan, South Wales. While a number of miners were engaged in sinking a shaft the walls of the shaft suddenly fell…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 January 1893 · page 4

CROOKWELL, Wednesday.—Mr. Paget, of Blinds, brought into town to-day a nine sample of gold got at the Victoria Flat, Junction Point, by a digger named Bannister, who during the past month has…

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One Hundred and Thirty Miners Killed. London, Jan. 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 January 1893 · page 4

A disastrous explosion of fire damp has taken place at a colliery at Teplitz, in Bohemia. Seventeen bodies have been recovered. Thirty miners have been rescued, but they are all more or…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 February 1893 · page 2

LONDON, January 25. -- A disastrous explosion of fire-damp has taken place at a colliery at Teplitz, in Bohemia. Seventeen bodies have been recovered. Thirty…

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