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

Mining & the mines, 1896

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Mining. the Carrington Mine

Goulburn Herald · Friday 14 February 1896 · page 5

MR. H. COPELAND M.P. and others have taken up a lease of the Carrington mine near Marulan, formely worked by a Goulburn syndicate, with a view of supplying flax to the…

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Mining Conference

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 4
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

THE conference of delegates from the various mining centres throughout the colony was continued in St. James’s Hall, Phillip-street, on Tuesday. Mr. Sydney Smith (Minister for Mines)…

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Revival at the Carrington Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 2

THERE is every prospect of work being resumed shortly at the old Carrington mine. Mr. Copeland, M.P., was in town this week in connection with the mine, and he and others have taken up a lease of the…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 17 February 1896 · page 2

THE gold-mining lease applied for by W. McGregor 8th October, for 7 [?] in now ready for delivery: also the mineral [?] applied for by W. [?]…

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Mining at Queanbeyan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 February 1896 · page 2

QUEANAEYAN, Monday.—Mr. Percy Hodgkinson, on behalf of a syndicate has purchased the Colinton gold mine. Mr. Arthur Hill, an expert, estimates that 40 men can turn out 100 tons of stone per week,…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 19 February 1896 · page 2

A splendid had in reported from Mount Robinson W.A. [?] of being [?] one-third gold…

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Colliery Explosion in America. London, Feb. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1896 · page 2

A disastrous explosion has taken place in the Vulcan Colliery, Denver, United States. Fifty-five miners were killed…

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Carriage of Mining Requisites

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1896 · page 2

ON Wednesday afternoon the Minister for Mines, Mr. Sydney Smith, introduced to the Railway Commissioners a deputation from the recent Mining Conference. The object of the deputation was to…

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One Thousand Pounds Reward for Deep Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1896 · page 2

THE Minister for Mines, in his address to the Mining Conference, announced that, with the view of encouraging the development of our mineral resources at a greater depth than had been yet…

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Government Batteries on the Goldfields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1896 · page 2

ON Wednesday afternoon a deputation introduced by Mr. T. Brown, M.L.A. for Condobolin, waited on the Minister for Mines to ask that a battery be erected on that goldfield. Mr. Sydney Smith, in…

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Moving Collieries. Buildings and Railway in Danger

The Yass Courier · Friday 21 February 1896 · page 3

London, February 18.--Great excitement has been caused in the arrondissement of Alais, in the Department of Gard. France, owing to the fact that, the Goulfre mountain mines have been for…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 21 February 1896 · page 3

GREAT excitement has been caused at Esperance, Western Australia, by the discovery of opals, four miles borth of Norssman. In Victoria payable gold has ben discovered…

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Beach Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 February 1896 · page 6

With the object of ascertaining the extent of work already done on the areas of auriferous beach sand on the northern coast, and also with the object of seeing what could be done to further develop this…

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Accident at a Colliery. London, Feb. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 February 1896 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred yesterday at a colliery at Leigh, in Lancashire. While a number of miners were being lowered in a cage the rope broke, and the cage with its…

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Mining at Junction Point

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 February 1896 · page 6

THERE is nothing much to report at present. The Red Jacket party are getting out stone, also cleaning out an old shaft sunk some years ago. This shaft lies…

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£8,000,000 Worth of Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 February 1896 · page 4

IT would seem as if the gold yield for the year 1895 from the Transvaal will touch about £8,000,000 in value. This does not seem very far short of the largest quantity of…

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Reward for Gold Discovery at 2000 Feet

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 22 February 1896 · page 2

IN the coarse of his address at the opening of the Mining Conference, the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Sydney Smith, stated that, with a view of encouraging the development of our…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 24 February 1896 · page 2

THE gold-mining loate of 8 acros, Inverary, applied for by B. Harries on 19th August 1895 has been approved…

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Mining Development

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 26 February 1896 · page 4

THE Minister for Mines is sanguine that a large developement in mining will take place in the colony during the present year, especially in consideration of the encouragement that is being…

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