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

Mining & the mines, 1901

188 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 10

Rich Gold Discovery

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 August 1901 · page 2

Cooktown, Wednesday.—A rich discovery of gold is reported at Maytown. T. Furse, T. Graham, J. Jenkhins, and A Dimes about five weeks ago took up an old shaft on the King of the Ranges…

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Mining at Captain's Flat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 August 1901 · page 4

QUEANBEYAN, Tuesday.—It is reported that a syndicate is being formed in England to work the Captain's Flat mines again. It Is proposed that the capital shall be £180,000 in £1 shares. A great…

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Gold Discovery at Harden

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 August 1901 · page 2

Harden, Thursday.—At the Five Mile rush Met calf's party hove hoisted the red flag, payable wash having been tre[?]ed right through the claim, which comprises four men's ground. Frezers and party,…

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Gold Yield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 August 1901 · page 4

The return compiled by the Department of Mines shows that the gold field of this State after the month of July was 33,018 crude ounces, valued at £116,051, equal to 27,321 fi[?]e ounces, as compared…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 August 1901 · page 2

The Shoalhaven river dredge last week recovered 10oz. 18dwt. gold. The Kiandra Dredging Company has declared a dividend (third) of 6d. per share,…

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Great Gold Robbery. London, August 5

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 13 August 1901 · page 4

A MOST Sensational gold robbery is reported from Vallojo, Pablo Bay, California. Some robbers tunnelled a distance of 350 feet…

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Mining Fatality. Broken Hill

The Yass Courier · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 2

A fatal accident occurred at block 11 of the Proprietary mine at the 650ft. level yesterday evening. John Harvey Thomas was engaged laying a truck line…

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A Mad Rush for Gold

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 August 1901 · page 2

ACCORDING to the Victoria (B.C.) correspondent of the London Daily Mail, some extraordnary scenes occurred in the Klondike district, on "February 26th, when the…

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Gold Dredging.—good Returns

Werriwa Times and Goulburn District News · Wednesday 21 August 1901 · page 2

THE Araluen Control Gold Dredging Propriotary, in which are several local residents, had excellent returns for several weeks past. The result of last week's work of [?] hours…

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News by Cable. Great Gold Robbery. a Hanl of £70,000. Tunnel to a Strong Room

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 3

A sensational gold robbery is reported from Vallejo, Pablo Bay, California. Some robbers tunnelled a distance of 350 feet from the shore to the strong room of…

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Cable News. the San Francisco Gold Robbery. London, Aug. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 August 1901 · page 4

The man John Winters, who confessed to having been one of the participants in the gold robbery from the Selby Smelting Works, Vallejo, has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment…

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Gold Dredging

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of shareholders in the Little River Dredging Company has been called to consider the advisableness of increasing the capital of the company by the…

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Rescue of Miners. London, Aug. 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 August 1901 · page 2

Five of the coalminers who were entombed in a mine at Donibristle, Fifeshire, owing to the subsidence of moorland, have been rescued alive. A fresh subsidence has interfered with the work of rescuing…

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Mining on Private Property

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 29 August 1901 · page 3

AN interesting case under the Mining on Private Lands Act was decided by the Full Court on Friday. An application by the holder of a miner’s right had been…

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Mining in the Braidwood District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 4

We mentioned a week ago that the Eureka line at Major's Creek was sold. Mr. J. Heazlett purchased the mine for the men for £150. On Thursday the lease was transferred…

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Gold-Dredging

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 4

At an extraordinary meeting of the Little River shareholders held at Vickery's Chambers on Tuesday last—Mr. James Lawson presiding—it was decided to reconstruct the…

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Cutten and Others v. Shoalhaven River Gold-dredging Company, N.L.

Werriwa Times and Goulburn District News · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 2

THIS was an action brought by the plaintiffs, William Henry Cutten, Walter Cutten, Frederick Cutten, and Francis Cutten to recover a balance alleged to be due by the…

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Colliery Disaster in Wales. London, Sept. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 September 1901 · page 2

By an explosion in Lianbradach Colliery, Caerphilly, Wales, 20 moon wore entombed. Three have been rescued, and others are being rescued…

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Twice the Value of Standard Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 September 1901 · page 4

Adelaide, Monday.—What is believed to be the first authentic discovery of vanadium in South Austraila has boon made near Robertson, about 16 miles south-west of Korringa, where a huge lode…

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Cornish Miners

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 1

It is tolerably certain that Phoenician traders came to Cornwall for tin, in days before the Christian era; but some Cornish traditions would have us…

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