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

Mining & the mines, 1903

224 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 12

Gold Find at Gundagai

Crookwell Gazette · Thursday 16 April 1903 · page 4

GUNDAGAI, Thurday.-- Harry Groth and Elliot Brothers have just finished crushing 13 tons at Reefer Battery. Adelong, from their mine at Bark Hut…

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Cable News. Gold Claims in the Transvaal. London, April 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 April 1903 · page 2

Extensive pegging of gold claims has taken place at Heidelberg, Wilgepoort, and Klerksdorp, in the Transvaal. Many thousands of mining men participated in the pegging. The proceedings…

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Gold Find at Gundagai. a Sensational Return

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 2

Harry Groth and Elliot Brothers have just finished crushing 13 tons at R[?] bittery. Adelong from their mine at Bark Hut goldfield, known as the…

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Mining and Finance Rich Find at Gundagai

The Yass Courier · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 2

The most sensational gold yield knows for years was secured last week from 13 tons of stone form Elliott and party claim. Bark Hut, four miles from…

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Mining News

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 4

Moruya, Thursday,—A miner named Smith, at Kianga Creek, near Narooma, got a 32oz. nugget of gold on Tuesday. Braidwood, Thursday.—Cleaver and party have…

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Storing Coal at Port Arthur. London, April 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 5

The "Daily Express" states that Russia is making strenuous efforts to increase her supply of Welsh coal at Port Arthur. A Cardiff firm has been asked to supply the…

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The Kangiara Mine

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 20 April 1903 · page 2

The [?] of the Stock Journal writes thus :—A notable event in connection with our neighbourhood, which occurred last week, was the…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 April 1903 · page 3

THE Cotter Copper Mine, over the Murrum-bridge River, near Queanbeyan, which was worked by Mr. W. H. Treaweack, and an adjoining lease, formerly worked by Mr…

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Arltunga Goldfield

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 April 1903 · page 2

THE South Australian government received a telegram from the government geologist, Mr. Brown, as follows:—"Mining matters at Arltunga transitory pending options. Fewer…

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Mining and Finance

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 21 April 1903 · page 2

A mining report from the Lithgow district states that about 50 men are working on the old ford goldfield and making from £1 to £5 per week per man which is…

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Free Miners' Rights

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 April 1903 · page 2

"Surprise is expressed that the issue of free miners' rights has been suspended by the Mines Department." Such was the tenor of a telegram published in yesterday's issue of the "Herald" from…

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The Kang[?]ara Mine

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 23 April 1903 · page 2

Nothing absolutely final is yet reported in connection with the salo of the Kangiara mine, at present under offer. On Tuesday an interested party drove out…

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Hidden Gold Revealed by an Earthquake

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 April 1903 · page 4

Melbourne, Monday.—The removal of a quantity of earth at the base of a tree in a paddock in Woodford, in the Warrnambool district, by the recent earthquake led to the discovery of a hoard of…

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Free Miners' Rights

Goulburn Herald · Friday 24 April 1903 · page 4

IN answer to a statement that free miners' rights had been suspended, the under-secretary states that there has been no suspension of the issue of free miners' rights…

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The Kangiara Mine

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 April 1903 · page 3

The Tangmahgaroo correspondent of the Stock Journal writes thus :—A notable event in connection with our neighbourhood, which occured last week, was the…

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Strange Discovery of Stolen Gold Plates

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 4

Kalgoorlie, Thursday.—A sensational experience, which led to the discovery of supposed stolen property, befel a little girl, Louisa Fuetril, at Kalgoorlie this morning. In company…

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Scottish Mining Difficulty London, April 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 April 1903 · page 4

The Scottish Miners' Federation demand the throwing idle of those coal pits where Poles, amounting altogether to 4000, are employed. The Scottish miners' ground for the demand is the…

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Trouble Anticipated in the coal Trade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 April 1903 · page 2

An important development in connection with the coal trade of the Newcastle district, and one which may possibly result in serious trouble, has taken place. It has transpired that with but four…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday. A Mine Shut Down

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 April 1903 · page 1

Owing to the now Hartley shale mine at Glen-owlin having been shut down the men are leaving in search of employment. LONDON, Tuesday…

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Gold-separating Invention. London, April 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 May 1903 · page 4

The "Express" says that Mr. Edison has invented an air blast for the separation of gold from sand without the use of water. The new invention is said to be more costly than…

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