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

Mining & the mines, 1904

213 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 11 of 11

Mining. the Peelwood [?]

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 2

IN a recent issue we briefly reported that there was a prospect of the above mine again commencing working operations. Last week a…

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Machines Versus Men. Miners Under Notice at Bulli

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 2

Wollongong, Saturday.—The whole of the miners at North Bulli have received notice of dismissal, to take effect on Saturday next. This announcement…

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Monthly Gold Yield

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 2

A RETURN furnished by the Under-secretary for Mines shows that the gold yield recorded for the mouth of November was 29,480oz, valued at £125,221, ns compared with 15,028…

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Greatest Among Gold Mines

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 3
Also in The Young Chronicle

The greatest gold mine in the world is said to be the Treadwell mine, on Dougas Island, Alaska. Fortune played a shabby trick on its…

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Gold in Rhodesia. London, Dec. 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 4

The British South Africa Company announces the discovery in the Victoria district of Rhodesia of an auriferous banket, similar to the formation at Johannesburg…

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South African Prosperity. Revival in Mining

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 12 December 1904 · page 2

A Johannesburg correspondent so writes to the “ Sunday Times” on the all important subject of the revival of mining in South Africa :—…

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Extracting Gold From Sea Water. a North Coast Enterprise

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 17 December 1904 · page 6

A now method of recovering gold is about to be commenced a few miles from Byron Bay, on the sea coast, between Capo Byron and Ballina…

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The Eureka Stockade and Other Old Mining Memories

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 December 1904 · page 5

The recent celebration in several mining centres of that famous event in the early Australian digging days known as "The Battle of the Eureka Stockade" will be, I am sure,…

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£75,000 for Throwing a Stone at a Wood-Pigeon. Recent Romances of the Gold-fields

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 21 December 1904 · page 4

THE story of the young-North Shields man who is on his way home from New Zealand with a fortune of £75,000, as the outcome of an accidental whim, brings to the…

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Newcastle Coal Difficulty

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 4

It was learned on Thursday from the Attorney-General, Mr. C. G. Wade, that Mr. Justice Cohen, President of the Arbitration Court, has decided to return to Sydney next Wednesday, for the purpose…

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Supply Ship Refused Coal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

The steamer Speranza (formerly the Maori King), which arrived at Durban with a cargo of meat for the Baltic Fleet ,was not allowed bunker coal…

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Bloom Field Mines

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 29 December 1904 · page 2

Mr. John Styles and party have received their return for a parcel of 6 tons 9 cwt. of are, forwarded to the Smelting Works from their shaft on…

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Garibaldi Mines

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 31 December 1904 · page 2

MESSRS. SAM and party have gained another very satisfactory result from their operations at Garibaldi mine, near Wombat, a crushing of 45 tons yielding 41 ounces of gold. The stone was…

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