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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 7 of 11

Increased Gold Yield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 September 1904 · page 2

A return furnished by the Under-Secretary for Mines shows that the gold yield recorded for the month of August was 12,835oz., valued at £54,520 as compared with 12,512oz., worth £53,149, for the…

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a Fearful Explosion. Mine Manager Disembowelled

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 8 September 1904 · page 6

Details are to hand of the terrific explosion which took place at the Diamond Gully Hydraulic Sluicing Company’s works, near Castlemaine…

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Newcastle Coal Trade. More Labor Troubles Brewing

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 8 September 1904 · page 5

Tho Northern Colliery Proprietors’ Association, at a meeting last week, decided to reduce the declared selling price of coal from 10s to 9s per ton…

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Mining Warden's Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 September 1904 · page 5

A COURT was held at Goulburn this afternoon by Mr. Maitland, warden, regarding a dispute between James Armstrong and James Thomas Maguire respecting a mining…

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Captain's Flat Mines

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

Captain's Flat, Thursday.—Information has been received here to the effect that negotiations are almost complete for the disposal of the Lake George Mines by the present company…

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Mining at Bywong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 September 1904 · page 4

Matters still continue to improve on this field, notably in the number of prospectors working here at present, and the encouraging results met with by them. Wakefield is raising payable stone from a…

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Gold in Sheeps’ Heads. Remarkable Discovery. Doctor’s Chance Find

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 17 September 1904 · page 2

Somewhere on the vast grazing plains of Australia or New Zealand farmers are feeding their flocks of sheep on pastures so auriferous that, the very animals show…

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The Value of Mining

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 21 September 1904 · page 2

It is a commonplace that mining has dragged Australia out of the mud in times past, and that properly fostered it will do so again…

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The Coal Trade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 September 1904 · page 4

The northern miners made an application to the Arbitration Court on Tuesday for the maintenance of working conditions. In affidavits on behalf of the colliery owners, it was stated that unless the…

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Mining Troubles

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 23 September 1904 · page 2

THE northern miners made an application to the Arbitration Court for the maintenances of working condition. In affidavits on behalf of…

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The Newcastle Mining Dispute

Goulburn Herald · Monday 26 September 1904 · page 3

THE decision of the Arbitration Court in this important matter was announced on Friday. A meeting of the Colliery Proprietors' Association on August 31st last, on account of…

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Newcastle Colliery Dispute

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 2

THE Arbitration Court on Friday delivered judgment in the Newcastle mining dispute, in which the miners asked for maintenance of existing…

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Mittagong Iron Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 3

Mittagong, Monday.—Negotiations which have been pending for some time between the Mittagong Land Company and a firm of Sydney iron workers culminated in the sale of the…

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A Coal Contract

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 2

Collins and Company, of Dartmouth, had a coal contract with Russia. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary for War, in reply to an inquiry from Mr. Collins, said it would be…

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Coal for Russian Warships. Sep. 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 4

Russian agents at Liverpool ore offering great inducements to run coal to Vladivostock. also to ship for an uninhabited island if the Philippines for warships…

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Australian Mining

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 28 September 1904 · page 4

Mr. Donald Clark, B.C.E., who,as special commissioner to the '' Australian Mining Standard," has visited every important morning field…

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Sensational Gold Discovery

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 September 1904 · page 4

Southern Cross, Tuesday.—Messrs. J. Richards, W. H. Stephens, and T. Armstrong, tributing on the Reward Extended leases, Southern Cross, have struck a rich reef, at, a depth…

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Mining at Bell's Creek

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 September 1904 · page 4

The Bell's Creek correspondent of the Braidwood Express writes:—All the mines are working full time, and judging from present appearances there is every prospect that…

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Coal Trade Difficulty. Reductions Decided Upon

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 29 September 1904 · page 3

Tho Northern Colliery Proprietors have decided to reduce the declared solling price of coal to 9s per ton, as from January next and until otherwise…

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Sensational Gold Discovery

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 30 September 1904 · page 2

SOUTHERN CROSS, Tuesday.—Messrs. Richards, W. H. Stephens, and T. Armstrong, tributing on the Reward Extended leases, Southern Cross, have…

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