International Miners' Congress. London, June 12
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 June 1897 · page 4
The International Miners' Congress has carried a resolution approving of the nationalisation of mines. The delegates representing the German miners abstained from voting, and the National Union…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 June 1897 · page 4
At yesterday's sitting of the International Miners' Congress a resolution was carried by a large majority in favour of the fixing of a minimum wage. The delegates representing the South Wales National…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 June 1897 · page 4
THE Junction Point correspondent of the Gazette says:—I have recently obtained information from a reliable source that Peelwood, Mount Costigan and Cordillera mines are to start again under the…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 June 1897 · page 4
BYWONG, Monday.—Pringle's battery is hard at work. Crushings going through from the Lone Hand, to be followed by parcels from local claims and Dairy Creek. Robbins, Cartwright, and Co.,…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 25 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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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 3
YOUNG, Thursday.—A fatal mining accident occurred yesterday at Spring Creek. James Lovett and his son, aged 11 years, were in a drive where the father was working, when the ground gave way,…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 June 1897 · page 2
Albury, Saturday.—A report from Corryong states that thirty tone from the New Chum reef yielded 60 ounces gold. The new reef at Walwa, Upper Murray, shows gold freely…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 July 1897 · page 2
FRESH Specimens have been obtained, which contain pure native copper as well as the carbonates. Some have been sent for assay and Mr. Whittell, the government inspector, is…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 4
BYWONG, Friday—The crushing of 27 tons from the Lone Hand yielded 27oz. The trial crushing of about 6 tons from the surface from Brower Bros., Dairy Creek, went 10½dwt. to the top. Ten tons…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 2
A deputation from the Australasian Chamber of Mines, in London, waited on the visiting Premiers to-day. The Right Hon. G. H. Reid and the Right Hon. Sir John Forrest were not present…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 July 1897 · page 2
ORANGE, Wednesday.—Owing, it is alleged, to extensive robberies of rich are from the Lucknow, the mines at Wentworth and the Aladdin's Lamp have lately been closed down, throwing 700 men out…
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Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 July 1897 · page 3
TUENA, Thursday.—The Tuena Estate, comprising 2460 acres, was thrown open to miners yesterday. Seventy-two acres have been taken up. In the "fifties" this estate was a…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 July 1897 · page 4
CAPTAIN'S FLAT, Saturday.—In connection with the recent find on the Lake George Proprietary's ground, the lode, which was about 9ft. in thickness, has widened out to nearly 14ft. The outcrop was…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 July 1897 · page 4
The Right Hon. Sir John Forrest, Premier of Western Australia, promised a deputation which waited upon him yesterday from the Western Australian Chamber of Mines that the Government of…
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Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 2
MINEBAL lease of 40 a.. Taana, hold by W. Clerk, has been cancelled for non-fulfilment of labour conditions. Caption Steele, of the schooner Ivanhoe…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 July 1897 · page 4
THE total output of gold within the colony of New South Wales for quarter ending the 30th June is estimated at 63,616oz, as compared with 63,633oz for the first quarter of the year. An…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 July 1897 · page 6
CAPTAIN'S FLAT, Wednesday.—The winding engine in connection with the Lake George mining and smelting Company's new plant was started to-day. The general…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 July 1897 · page 2
FOLLOWING leases applied for on 25th May last have been approved:—E. A. Ashcroft, three of 40s. each, 69½a., and 60a., Boro and Mulwarree…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 July 1897 · page 4
At a meeting of the Australasian Chamber of Mines yesterday Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland, spoke in terms of approval of the formation of the Chamber, and said that its suggestions…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 July 1897 · page 2
A serious "mud-rush" has taken place in the De Beer diamond mine at Kimberley, South Africa. Several Europeans amid 60 natives were entombed by the mud. Twenty of the number were rescued…
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