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

Mining & the mines, 1900

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“Poachers” in the Coal Yard

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 29 January 1900 · page 4

THE the great coal yards abutting on important railway stations may often be seen tramp-like individuals, who, having by some means or other obtained leave…

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The Mining Case. (To the Editor of the Burrangong Argus.)

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 31 January 1900 · page 2

Sir,—In your last issue appealed, under the above heading a letter signed by J.C. Rankin, General Manager of the Burrangong Dredging Company in which the endeavours very plausibly…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 February 1900 · page 4

UNDER date the 22nd instant the mine manager of the Lake George Mines, Limited, Captain's Flat, reported that in the northern section the 82ft. level had been driven 35ft., total 78ft. In the southern…

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Mining. Tellurides

Goulburn Herald · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 2

WITH the view of encouraging a search for tellorium in this district apecimens of the are obtained from Kalgoorlie (W.A.) and circulars giving particulars about its…

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Women Delve for Gold

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 1

A man who has lately returned from Klondike has remarked on the number of plucky and adventurous women who are seeking their fortunes there…

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'Poachers' in the Coal Yard

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 1

In the great coal yards abutting on important railway stations may often be seen tramp-like individuals, who having obtained by some means or other leave from…

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Supply of Welsh Coal. London, Feb. 2

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

Foreign Powers have entered into large contracts for the supply of Welsh steam coal. Owing to the fulfilling of these contracts the "Times" anticipates that coal will be procurable only at famine prices…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 February 1900 · page 4

MESSRS. Richardson and Blair, engineers for the Little River Gold-dredging Company, No Liability, report that satisfactory progress is being made by the contractors…

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Mining. Warden's Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 2

YESTERDAY Mr. Caswell, warden, heard a mining suit brought by Charles Carrick against William Neain for trespassing on his registered claim at Little Horseshoe,…

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Mining. the Escort

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1900 · page 2

From Braidwood last week took away 234 oz. of gold. In the Copper Creek shaft on the western section of the Lake George mines Captain's…

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Rich Find of Gold in North Queensland

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 4

BRISBANE, Monday.—In connection with the discovery of rich gold-bearing country in Godda Vulloy, 25 miles south of the Coen River, the ordinary yield is…

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A New Goldfield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 4

BRISBANE, Monday.—The officer in charge at Coen wired to the Post and Telegraph Department at Brisbane to-day, with reference to a new gold find near there, that there is…

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Mount Macdonald Mines

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 2

THe last annual report on the Oliver's Freehold Mines at Mount Macdonald (owned by a Hongkong company), prepared by Mr. Whear Roberts, consulting…

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Gold dredging

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 17 February 1900 · page 3

IN thin issue we publish the prospectus of the Spring Creek Gold Dredging . and Sluicing syndicate, a company which has secured six contiguous blocks of 125 acres…

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Threatened Coal Famine in England. London, Feb. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 February 1900 · page 4

In the House of Commons last night Mr. W. G. Ellison-Macartney, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, stated that, owing to the high prices of English coal, the Admiralty had under…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1900 · page 2

BRAIDWOOD, Tuesday.—The Federal States Company has been cleaning up for there few days, but has not yet finished. D[?] local director and the Victorian directors…

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Important to Miners

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 22 February 1900 · page 2

MR. C. W. WEEKES, Mining Warden for the Yass District, has received from the Department several specimens of telluride ore, which will be on view at the warden’s…

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Gold Dredging

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 February 1900 · page 4

Two of the directors of the Jerricknorra Centrifugal Sluicing Company, Messrs,. Haynes and Gray, have returned from a visit to the property on the Shoal haven River, and report that the lead recently…

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The Genii of the VANGUARD. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter Xxii. the Gold Diggings

Goulburn Herald · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 6

Gold I Gold I Gold I Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold;…

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Cooda Creek Goldfield

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 1 March 1900 · page 2

THE Gooda Creek Prospectors’ Claim had another crushing at Dapto recently, 11 tons of stone yielding 8½oz. gold, 4 oz. silver, and 6 oz. copper to the ton…

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