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

Mining & the mines, 1900

288 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 13 of 15

A Daughter of Judah. [Complete Story.] [Copyright.] Part I. for Lack of Gold

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1900 · page 6

Y heart will break! Oh mother, my heart…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 22 October 1900 · page 2

THE legal manager of the [?] Central Gold Bridging Company reports that [?] class propress in being made with the construction of the company's [?]ger. Who…

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Gold-savers on Dredges

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 22 October 1900 · page 4

DURING the operations of the-dredges of the public works department in removing sand Lars and alluvium from the entrances to the Moruya and Shoalhaven rivers, the…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 24 October 1900 · page 2

THE secretary of the Little River Gold Dredging Company has received the following report from the site of operations:—A trial woo made on the 18th October of all…

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The Miners' Federation. London, Oct. 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 October 1900 · page 4

The Miners' Federation has commenced its conference at Saltburn. Mr Benjamin Picard, the President, in the course of a speech, recommended that the men…

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Mines That Burn for Years

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 29 October 1900 · page 4

A NUMBER of good-sized mines are now on fire in the United States, and have been for years. The Vulcan mine, on the Green River, opposite Newcastle, in Colorado,…

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Humewood Lead and Silver Mine

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 October 1900 · page 2

MR. FIELD, the manager at the Humewood lead and silver mine, is quite to pleased at the way the ore is turning out. 282 bags were sent to Cockle…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 31 October 1900 · page 2

THE Little River dredge made a successful start on Saturday in the [?] of Sir Edward Samcol, Mr. A. chapman M.L.A. [?] Mr. C. F. Richardson, consulting engineer…

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Kruger and the Gold

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 November 1900 · page 1

IN a despatch from Johannesburg a correspondent of the Cape Times informs that journal that at nearly all the mines on the Rand the machinery bak been put…

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The Emery Mine in Naxos

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 3 November 1900 · page 2

All the emery used in the world comes from the little Island of Naxos, near Greece. As it is one of the hardest substances known, ordinary quarrying tools can't be…

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Confiscation of Transvaal Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 November 1900 · page 2

It was reported yesterday that at the instance of Great Britain the Court of Hamburg had placed an embargo upon 30 chests of Transvaal bar gold, valued at £100,000, aboard the steamer Bundesrath,…

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An Embargo on Transvaal Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 November 1900 · page 4

At the instance of Great Britain the Court of Hamburg has placed an embargo upon 30 chests of Transvaal bar gold, valued at £100,000, aboard the steamer Bundesrath,…

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Coal for the Navy. London, Nov. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 November 1900 · page 2

The Admiralty has invited tenders for a year's supply of coal for the navy under ordinary conditions, and a possible supply in case of emergency. The total is 1,000,000 tons…

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Accident at a Mine

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 November 1900 · page 4

A STARTLING accident., which, in one instance, terminated fatally, occurred at a crushing battery at Bendigo (Vic.). The machinery had been…

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Mining. Captain's Flat

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 7 November 1900 · page 2

Work in being resumed at Captain's Flat and there is every probability of operations being actively carried on an they wore in the poet. Forty men were put to work recently…

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Little River Gold Dredging Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 November 1900 · page 4

The secretary of the Little River Gold Dredging Company reports:—Dredge worked 75 hours, and is still opening out, but not on bottom yet. Taken 8oz. 16dwt. 21gr. of…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 12 November 1900 · page 2

FOUR lease of 12 [?] and 50a., in he [?] of Tomboye, and [?] Gegg In the three first [?] applicant mast…

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Gold Dredging

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 November 1900 · page 2

The contractors (the Australian Gold-dredging Company, Limited) report the completion of opening out operations at the Araluen Valley Consolidated. Gold-dredging Company,…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 November 1900 · page 2

A further crushing of 18 tone from Robinson and Rio[?] mine at Gundagai yielded 185 oz of gold. Braidwood, Monday.—Sir Edward Samuel…

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Gold-dredging

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 November 1900 · page 4

The manager of the Oallen Water Supply and Sluicing Company, Shoalhaven River, reports that when sinking in the so-called lignite for the foundation of the turbine wheel after cutting through about…

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