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

Mining & the mines, 1897

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Bell's Creek Gold-Mining Co

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 May 1897 · page 4

FOR some time past a syndicate of English capitalists have been negotiating for the purchase of the above company's properties. We learn from a private source that at a…

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Goulburn Mining Court

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 May 1897 · page 2

MR. CASWELL held a mining warden's court in Goulburn to-day (Thursday) to hear an application by William E. Williams for suspension of labour conditions on gold-mining claims and lease at…

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On Thousand Llamas [?] with Gold

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 4

Who doesn't like to read about buried treasure? Who hasn't dreamed of finding it? What delight suddenly to possess vast riches? Shining gold, sparkling gems'. Things for which we have not…

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The Mining Industry

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 4

THE report of the Under-Secretary for Mines (Mr. D. C. M'Lachlan) for 1896 contains a large amount of statistical and general information. It is reported that although there is apparently an…

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A Japanese Gold Loan. London, May 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 2

A Japanese 5 per cent. gold loan of £4,389,583 has been placed on the market. The minimum is fixed at 101½…

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The Taiyuan Gold Robbery

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 June 1897 · page 4

THURSDAY ISLAND, Wednesday.—News per the Japanese liner Omi Maru, which arrived here to-day, regarding the robbery of gold on the steamer…

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A New Gold Rush

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 4

BURRAGA, Thursday.—A gold rush has taken place at Triangle Flat, between here and Rockley. The discovery is on private property, and some prospectors are getting good gold. About 30 men…

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Mining at Junction Point

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 4

CROOKWELL, Thursday.—Since the late rainfall mining at Junction Point, Tuena, has taken a start. The company to putting down cyanide works to thoroughly test the fields. If successful they will…

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Mining on Private Property

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 5

OWING to the refusal of Parliament in 1896, when amending the Mining on Private Property Act of 1894, to extend the power of miners to enter upon private land and mine for any minerals other than…

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Mining at Captain's Flat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 4

CAPTAIN'S FLAT, Thursday.—One of the furnaces in connection with the Lake George Mining Company's new plant was blown into this evening, and the other three will be started as soon as they are…

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Mining. the Gold Escort

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 June 1897 · page 2

LEFT Braidwood on Friday with 516 ozs. 12 dwts. 18 grs. of gold as the result of a month's work in that district. Mining operations had been greatly interfered with for…

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Political & Governmental. Mining on Private Property

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 June 1897 · page 2

Owing to the refusal of parliament in 1896, when amending the Mining on Private Property Act of 1894, to extend the power of miners to enter upon private land and mine…

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Western Australian Gold Yields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1897 · page 4

WE (Sydney Herald) have received from the Minister of Mines of Western Australia a copy of the "Department of Mines Gold-mining Statistics" for the year 1896. This shows that the total…

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Mining at Bywong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1897 · page 4

BYWONG, Friday.—The newly-created dam at the Lowe and Alchin G. M. Company was partly washed away by the recent fall of rain, and men are busy at work effecting repairs. Johnston, M'Alister and Co…

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The Mining Explosion at Broken Hill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1897 · page 2

Broken Hill, Monday.—An inquest was held at Tarrawingeo to-day by the coroner, Mr. Makinson, and a jury on the bodies of James P. Kennedy and Henry Sawyers, who were fatally injured in a…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 9 June 1897 · page 2

BURRAGA, Monday.—A large number of miners have left here for the alluvial rush at Triangle Flat, between here and Rockley, and many others are leaving. About 150 men were on…

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Mining at Tuena

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 June 1897 · page 4

TUENA, Monday.—Mr. Waters, the local manager of the Excelsior Nine, Tuena, reports having cut the reef in the shaft sunk to intercept the underlay. This reef was followed by M'Vicar and party from…

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International Miners' Congress. London, June 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 June 1897 · page 2

At the sitting of the International Miners' Congress yesterday a resolution in favour of eight hours being made a legal day's work for miners was carried by a majority of delegates representing…

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International Miners' Congress. London, June 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 June 1897 · page 4

An International Miners' Congress was opened in London yesterday, at which 70 delegates, representing 1,200,000 miners in Great Britain and on the Continent, attended…

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The Nugget of Gold Ore

The Yass Courier · Friday 11 June 1897 · page 4

'That,' said my friend, in reply to a question of mine, 'is a very large and very rich nugget of gold ore. It was taken many years ago from a mine in Australia…

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