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

Mining & the mines, 1899

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 24 May 1899 · page 3

The application of C. Blackett to leave 10s. Jerricknera and Jerralong, for gold mining for fifteen years has been approved. The application of F. R. Hayes for a special…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 26 May 1899 · page 5

THE fear of the inadequacy of the gold sepply, which has been the cause of much opposition to the change in India currency policy lest it should be hearded, and so…

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International Miners' Congress. London, May 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 May 1899 · page 2

The international miners' congress at Brussels, representing 1,400,000 miners, has passed a resolution embodying recommendations in favour of a national minimum wage and the international…

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Mining. Dredging

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 May 1899 · page 2

THE minister for mines and a parliamentary party leave Sydney on Friday for Masquario River to Inspect the first gold-dredging operations in N.S.W. which have been started and…

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Mining Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1899 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Two men were smothered by charcoal fumes at the Prentice United mine, Rutherglen, last night. To provide air to the south workings a now air…

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Terrible Accident in a Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1899 · page 2

MELBOURNE Monday.—A shocking occurrence took place to-night at the Great Northern mine, Eaglehawk. Two miners, named Robert de Greases and James M'Curdy, were at work in the winze…

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International Miners' Congress. London, May 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1899 · page 4

The international miners' congress at Brussels, representing 1,400,000 miners, has passed a resolution unanimously recommending the nationalisation of mines and the appointment of inspectors on…

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International Miners' Congress. London, May 24

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 30 May 1899 · page 4

AN international minors' congress, representing 1,400,000 miners, is sitting at Brussels. The congress supported eight…

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Copper Mining in New South Wales. London, May 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1899 · page 2

Lloyd's Burraga Copper Mining Company, Now South Wales, has been formed with a capital of £250,000, of which £166,667 is to be issued for subscription by the public…

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Mining. Braidwood Gold Escort

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 June 1899 · page 2

On Friday took away 244 oz. 10 dwt. 2 gr. Several other parcels of gold have been sell away privately during the month…

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Dredge Mining in New South Wales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 June 1899 · page 3

ON Friday night the Minister for Mines, accompanied by a large party, left Sydney for Stuart Town, on the Western railway line, where preparations had been made to…

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Mining. Braidwood Gold Escort

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 June 1899 · page 2

On Friday took away 244 cz. 10 dwt, 2 gr, Several other parcels of gold have been sent away privately during the month. The application of J. Collins on 10th…

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A Gold Robbery

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 June 1899 · page 2

LONDON, June 4, 3035 p.m.—When the R.M.S. Alameda arrived at San Francisco from Sydney, via Auckland, N.Z., it was discovered that a box of sovereigns, value…

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Gold Robbery on the R.m.s. Alameda

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 June 1899 · page 2

Advices from San Francisco sate that on the arrival of the R.M.S. Alameda from Sydney the captain reported that a box containing £5000 had been…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 12 June 1899 · page 3

For the month of Ma the output of gold from the Lake View Consols, a Kaigoorlie mine, was 33,080 oz., or upwards of lition. During the month of May the gold yield of…

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Klondyke Goldfields.— Two Hundred Prospectors Perish. London, June 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 June 1899 · page 4

Two hundred prospectors travelling to the Klondyke goldfields by the Edmonton trail route perished, some succumbing to starvation and scurvy while a number were drowned…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 16 June 1899 · page 2

Frozen-up Vessels in the Yokon River.— In letters which have been recied here from the Klondyke, dated via San Francisco May 5, it is stated that half the ships bearing the…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion 160 Miners Entomed London, June 16

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 June 1899 · page 2

A terrible colliery explosion has taken place; Halifax, Nova Scotia. One hundred and sixty miners are entomed; Thirty corpses have already been recovered…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion.—160 Miners Entombed. London, June 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 June 1899 · page 4

A terrible colliery explosion has taken place at Halifax, Nova Scotia. One hundred and sixty miners are entombed. Thirty corpses have already been recovered from the workings…

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Gold Dredging in New Zealand

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 June 1899 · page 4

THE Victorian minister for lands, Mr. Best, has been visiting New Zealand for the purpose of witnessing the golddredging operations there. The special…

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