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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 6 of 11

Another Mining Difficulty

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 10 August 1904 · page 4

The leaders of the Labour bodies so not learn wisdom by experience. Only a few days ago they forced the miners employed at Burraga to refuse…

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The War. London, Tuesday. Coal for Belligerents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 August 1904 · page 4

Mr. Gerald Balfour, President of the Board of Trade, replying to a question in the House of Commons to-day, said that 1,381,000 tons of British steam coal had been deported to…

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Mine Explosion

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 August 1904 · page 5

AN explosion occurred at Broken Hill on Wednesday by which two miners were severely injured. After tiring-time, John Tuckrant and his mate returned to the stope…

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Gold Robbery. TUMBERUMBA

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 13 August 1904 · page 5

A STARTLING discovery was made when the strong room at the police station was opened yesterday, by order of the inspector, it being found that 160oz…

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Mining in South America

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 August 1904 · page 6

Amongst the visitors to Townsville during the past week was a well-known North Queensland mining expert, in Mr F. Broden, of Herberton, who it will be remembered was deputed by North…

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Big Gold Robbery

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 16 August 1904 · page 4

INFORMATION has been received at the police headquarters of a sensational robbery of gold dust and retorted gold, valued at about £600, from the police…

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The Kangiara Mines

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 2

Haring heard so much, and seen so little in print, about the Kangiara Mining Camp, I made up my mind to pay a visit and see if the exciting reports about it's…

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Permission to Mine Under Roads

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 2

The Department of mines notifies in this issue that Air E. Candish applied for permission to mine under roads in the coun[?]y of Harden, Parish of Ill along,…

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Local and General New Further Mining Developments

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 August 1904 · page 2

We are pleased to report that the recent discovery made by Mr. Candish, near tho Goondah platfom is opening up very satisfactorily. There, are two distinct reefs…

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Wombat and Young Mines

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 20 August 1904 · page 2

The reefs which are now generally known as the Garibaldi Mines are more than realising expectation, and bid fair ere long to take a prominent…

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State Ownership V. Private Enterprise. Probable Closing of New Zealand Collieries

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 20 August 1904 · page 2

Private industries are already beginning to feel the competition of the State coalmines. The mines, are now going full swing, and…

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The Kangiara Mines

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 22 August 1904 · page 2

From time to time accounts and sketches of the now fairly well-known Kangiara mines have appeared in the press ; in its issue of Friday the Burrowa…

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Mining at Braidwood

Goulburn Herald · Monday 22 August 1904 · page 3

THE monthly police escort took 737oz. of gold to Tarago. Blanchard and Grant crushed two tons of stone at Hogan's battery, Little River, for a yield of 10oz. 13dwt. gold. Arnold and…

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Robbery of Gold Plate

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 24 August 1904 · page 2

On Friday night last Robinson's battery at Kimo, 3 miles from Gundagai was [?] by some person or persons and one of the battery plates were stolen. There was a…

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Robbery of a Gold Plate. Gondagai

The Yass Courier · Friday 26 August 1904 · page 4

On Friday night last Robinson’s battery at Kim, 8 miles from Gondagai, was entered by some person or persons and one of the battery…

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The Mining of the Sevastopol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 August 1904 · page 5

The Russian battleship Sevastopol, which was damaged by striking a mine in the outer harbour of Port Arthur on Tuesday, at the time the explosion occurred was bombarding…

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Goldfield in Japan. London, Aug. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 September 1904 · page 4

The Government of Japan entirely reserves to itself the recently discovered goldfields in the prefecture of Iwate, Northern Japan. The total yield of the field is officially estimated at…

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Japan's Gold Field. London, Sept. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 September 1904 · page 2

A Japanese expert estimates that Iwate gold. field (in the northern portion of Japan) will yield £400,000,000 if the whole of the field is equal in richness to the fourth of it already…

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The Sketcher The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth

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

Only within a very recent period has mention been made of Cripple Creek, Colorado, although it is doubtless the greatest gold camp on earth…

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