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

Mining & the mines, 1893

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The Scotch Coal Strike. London, Dec. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 December 1893 · page 4

The whole of the Scotch miners who went out on strike have resumed work at the old rate of wages…

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Heavy Gold Returns

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 2

PERTH, Friday,—A splendid crushing is reported from Nannine mine, Murchison; 39 tons of stone giving 500 oz. of smelted gold.—Six thousand five hundred and sixty-eight ounces of gold, valued at…

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Mining in the Braidwood District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 4

THE Clynemallow mine is being now reopened by another Melbourne company, and is looking very well as the new shaft is going down. The company, of which Mr…

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Cullulla Lead Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 December 1893 · page 2

THE Cullulla lead mining syndicate has been formed into a company, the interests of the 18 shareholders in the syndicate having been converted into 18,000 shares of £1 each, fully paid up. No…

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The Threatened Miners' Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 December 1893 · page 4

AT a special meeting of the A. A. Company's Borehole miners held on Tuesday, all those present appeared willing to accept the reduction proposed by the A. A. Company; but a deputation was…

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Mining Note From Nelligen. Payable Gold Found

Goulburn Herald · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 5

THE Minister for Mines has received the following telegram from Mr. G. Mounesell, Police Magistrate at Neillgoo:— " Harrington and party report finding payable gold at…

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Gold-fever at Gundaroo

Goulburn Herald · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 5

THE gold-fever seems to have laid hold upon Gaundaroo. The general talk is of [?]. and "shares." One party is at work now near the dairy station, and another in the…

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Cullulla Lead and Silver Mine. Formation of Syndicate

Goulburn Herald · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 4

DEVELOPMENTS in connection with the Cullulla Lead and Silver Mine, which have been previously referred to in these columns, have now reached such an advanced stage, that…

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The Trouble at the Collieries

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 4

AT Newcastle the Co-operative miners and the Wallsend miners have decided to accept the A. A. Company's offer of 3s 2d per too, but the Lambton and Seaham miners…

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Gold Returns

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 7

GENERALLY at Christmas time the diggers manage to scrape up a good wash up. We (Braidwood Dispatch) were shown on Tuesday amongst other gold that came into the Banks…

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Mining Managers' Reports

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 December 1893 · page 3

SHOALHAVEN C. H. S. Company, December 4.—Have washed up and cleaned down boxes for a yield 5oz. 15dwt. of clean gold, which, with some little dirty gold, will bring the yield up to a little…

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Mining at Bungonia. Favourable Opinions Justified

Goulburn Herald · Friday 29 December 1893 · page 2

AT last it appears as if what is known as the "Great Shoalhaven Drift" is going to bear out the very favourable opinion which, for years past, has been held by both practical…

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New Koh-i-noor Gold and Silver Mining Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 December 1893 · page 4

Manager's Report, week ended December 23— Main shaft sunk 3ft. 6in., total depth below the 210ft level is 73ft. Sulphide ore mined: Silver ore, 36 tons; copper ore, 16 tons; 14 tons of tale…

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New Koh-i-Noor Gold and Silver Mining Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 December 1893 · page 5

MANAGER'S Report for the four weeks ended December 8.—Development has been confined principally to opening up the mine at the 150ft. level on the western or hanging-wall side of big…

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The Coal Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 December 1893 · page 4

The ballot of the miners in the Illawarra district has resulted, by a majority of upwards of 6 to 1, in a decision not to accept the proposed reduction. A strike, therefore,…

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The Coal Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 December 1893 · page 2

Some of the largest Northern coal companies, including the Lambton, Wickham and Bullock Island, Hetton, Wallsend, and Stockton collieries, have decided to offer the miners the same hewing…

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Miners' Riots in South Africa. London, Dec. 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 December 1893 · page 4

Serious rioting has taken place among the native miners at Witwatersrandt, a goldfield near Johannesburg, in the Transvaal, South Africa. Two thousand miners fought furiously, and 100…

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The West Australia Gold Fields.—Reported Marvellous Progress

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 December 1893 · page 4

PERTH, Tuesday.—Mr. Woodward, the Government Geologist, has been interviewed concerning the Dundas-hills goldfields. He states that the field is a continuation of the…

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