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

Mining & the mines, 1893

397 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 20

Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 February 1893 · page 2

LAST week Mr. Fagot of Binda brought to Crookwell a nice sample of gold obtained at Victoria Flat, Junction Point, by a digger named Bannister, who during the…

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A. Prehistoric Gold-field

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 February 1893 · page 1

THE Dark Continent is fruitful of mysteries and surprises. It has given ms the hippopotamus, the gorilla, and the human pigmy. It has proved to…

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Mining on the Shoalhaven

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 February 1893 · page 5

WE understand that a newly-formed gold sluicing Company on the Shoalhaven River intend to commence operations next week. Two of the Adelaide directors, Messrs…

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New Koh-i-noor Gold and Silver Mining Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1893 · page 8

A MEETING of the New Koh-i-Noor Gold and Silver Mining Company was held at Tattersall's chambers, Sydney, on Tuesday night, to consider a motion to be submitted by the board of directors…

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Shoalhaven Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1893 · page 4

WORK of an important character will, it is stated, be commenced next week in the Shoalhaven in connection with a recently-formed gold sluicing company hailing from Adelaide. The…

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The Eclipse Colliery Flooded

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 2

IPSWICH, Saturday, 3 p.m.-- A dreadful colliery disaster-- the worst fatality that has yet happened in connection with the floods-- occurred about noon to-day, resulting in the…

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Terrible Floods in Queensland. Houses and Public Buildings Submerged. Four Children Drowned. Seven Miners Drowned. a Lunatic Asylum in Peril

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 4

TOOWOOMBA, Sunday.—We have been out off from Brisbane since Friday afternoon, and have had no news from there of any sort. The following telegrams received from Ipswich yesterday give all…

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Great Flood in Queensland. Bundamba, Ipswich, and Goodna Under Water. Churches and Other Buildings Submerged. People Fleeing to the Hills. Seven Men Drowned in a Submerged Mine. Four of a Family Drowned. the Highest Flood on Record

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 February 1893 · page 2

Toowoomba, Sunday, 1 p.m.-- Communication has been cut off from Brisbane since Friday afternoon, and no news is to hand from the capital of any sort. The following…

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Spa-Jessop Mine

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1893 · page 3

THE Spa-Jessop, Hydraulic Sluicing Company commenced operations on Monday. The engines were started on Saturday, and worked smoothly and well. Some tangible result may…

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Brisbane in a Deplorable Condition. Gympie Mines Flooded

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 2

The Postmaster-General has received the following information from Toowoomba;-- "Bundaberg reports that the first Maryborough train has just arrived. Heard from the lengthsmen…

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Cullulla Lead and Silver Mine

Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 February 1893 · page 3

REPORTS from the above mine continue to be of the most encouraging character. One of our citizens who has just returned from a visit speaks in the most confident terms of…

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Gold in Canada. London, Feb. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1893 · page 2

An extensive discovery of gold is reported at Ratportage, in Canada. The district in which the discovery took plane is described as a second California, and is being rushed…

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Sensational Gold Field

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 2

AT Wilson's rush, on the Murchison goldfield, Western Australia, sensational specimens are being picked up. Nuggets weighing 2lb., 3lb., 5lb., and 12lb…

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Mining at Carcoar

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 4

CARCOAR, Saturday.—A cable hat been received by the manager of The Mandurams Gold Trust Mining Company at the Junction from Mr. Lyons in England stating that a company has been…

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"The Man's the 'Gold for A' That!"

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 21 February 1893 · page 4

Who shall judge a man for manners? Who shall know him by his dress? Paupers may be fit for princes, Princes fit for something less…

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Mining at Markdale

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Herald

OUR Markdale correspondent writes:-- Although I have been asleep lately, the mines in general have not. Tho Enterprise Gold-mining Company is hard at…

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LONDON, Tuesday. Mining Disaster

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 3

TELEGRAMS from Austria give particulars of a terrible mining disaster at Skalitz. The miners were at work at the time, and fifteen were killed. The explosion occurred owing to…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 3

NEW KON-I-NOOR Gold and Silver-Mining Company, for the week ending February 17. 150ft. level: North end stope, half of this stope has been worked through to the old…

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Mining at Markdale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 7

THE Gazette's Markdale correspondent writes:—The Enterprise Gold-mining Company is hard at it getting out a crushing. The stone looks well, and one class of stone…

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