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

Mining & the mines, 1899

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Mining. Smelting Company of Australia

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 January 1899 · page 3

SMELTING COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA. DATIO. Friday.—Great aclivity prevails at the emelting works at prestnt. Some of the twelve new reverberatory fornaces are already…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 3

IT is intended to recommence on a large scale operations at the Argyle copper mines (Mr. J. C. Bunarine') near Maruian for raisingiron are as flux to be sent to Brownsville…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 3

THE Braidwood Dispatch states:—Mesers. A. Barlow and party, while washing sand from the bed of the Shoalbaven at Charleyong, came across a reef extending over the river…

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Gold [?]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 2

The annul gold returns for the year have been prepared by the [?] Department, show a [?] factory increase in the yield. From January 1 to November 30, [?] of a…

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Gold Returns for Last Year

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 4

THE Minister for Mines, Mr. Cook, has had the gold returns for the year prepared, and is gratified to find that a substantial increase in the quantity and value of the gold won has taken place as…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 9 January 1899 · page 3

ADELONG, Saturday.—A miner named Casey last night at Gibraltar mine found a dynamite cap amongst the stone he was shifting. Casey examined it with a candle and the cap…

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A Hetton Miner’s Gratitude. Cured of Liver Troubles and Indigestion.his Appreciation of Bile Beans for Biliousness

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 9 January 1899 · page 4

“I HAVE never felt better for years,” remarked Mr. John Perry, a well known miner, employed at the Hetton Colliery, when waited upon at his home…

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Lake George Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 January 1899 · page 4

THE following is a copy of a message received on Friday evening by Mr. R. N. Kirk, Sydney agent of the Lake George Mines, Limited, from the Melbourne office:—Mine manager reports that…

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Foul Air in a Gold Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 January 1899 · page 2

Pambula, Wednesday.—A fatal accident has occurred at Mount Momsen Gold Mine, Wolumle The manager while going down a ladder was over-powered by foul air and fell to the bottom Two…

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Mining Law in Western Australia. London, Jan. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 January 1899 · page 4

A deputation representing the Stock Exchange, the Western Australian Chamber of Mines, and mining companies, having an aggregate capital of £20,000,000, waited yesterday upon Mr E H…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 13 January 1899 · page 2

A sensational discovery of opal is reported from Opalton Queensland. The find is said to be one of the biggest blocks of opal ever discovered. its value being estimated at…

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Gold in the Temora District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 2

WITH reference to the reported new gold find in the Temora district, the Under-Secretary for Mines is in receipt of a communication from an officer who was sent specially to the place to report upon it…

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Cable News. Miners' Federation. London, Jan. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 2

At the conference of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain to-day Mr. B. Pickard, M.P., said that the Workmen's Compensation Act would prove to be a fruitful source of litigation and ill-feeling,…

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A New Goldfield. TEMORA

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 4

A very important find has been made, which open up an entirely new Coldfield at Yarran Jerry country Bourke, on conditional purchase [?] by Messrs [?] and Grey. The [?]…

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Braidwood Gold Escort

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 January 1899 · page 3

Took on Friday 263 oz. 17 dwts. 22grs.. a very small amount, the result of the drought GULGONG, Friday.—The new rush at the mines was formerly worked named Hill have…

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Mining. Warden's Court

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 January 1899 · page 3

To-day before Mr. Caswell, warden, Patrick Joseph O'Neil of Bangonia, miner, applied for suspension of labor condition for four months upon his mineral lease of 51., Dog…

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Foul Air in a Gold Mine

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

PAMBULA, Wednesday.--A fatal accident has occurred at Mount Mounsen Gold Mine, Wolumla. The manger while going down a ladder was overpowered by foul air and fall to…

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That Mining Telegram. the Goldfind Near Temora

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 January 1899 · page 4

A MOST remarkable telegram appears in Saturdays issues of the Sydney EVENING NEWS and TELEGRAPH purporting to announce the discovery of a new find of [?] country, 35 miles west of…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 2

GUNDAGAI, Thursday.—George Collingridge and party recently reported the discovery of payable gold. The warden reports that the find is an important one. The lode is…

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Death of [?] a Mining Millio[?] His Eight for Fo[?]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 2

THERE passed away at Waverley on Tuesday morning one of the richest men in Australia, in the person of Richard Craves, mineowner and spe[?] who was by [?]…

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