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

Mining & the mines, 1905

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Cruiser Wants Coal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 June 1905 · page 2

The Russian cruiser Kuban, a late Hamburg liner, has anchored at Cape Saint Jacques, Indo-China. She asks for sufficient coal to take her to the nearest Russian port…

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Dalton Mines

Goulburn Herald · Friday 23 June 1905 · page 2

THE manager reports:—"Re the Caledonia gold roof, all practical minors admit its being muddled in the past. The old workings prove this, while the buttery tailings testify…

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District Items. Dalton Mines

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 27 June 1905 · page 2

The manager reports, “Re the Caledonia gold reef, all practical miners admit its being muddles in the past. The old workings prove this, while the battery…

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Trouble Amongst Miners. Free Laborers Stoned

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 29 June 1905 · page 2

At the present , there are stirring times at the Pelaw Main Colliery, in the Newcastle district, already the scene of friction and disturbance between the…

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Outrage by Miners. Free Labourers Stoned

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 June 1905 · page 4

INTENSE excitement prevailed at Pelaw-Main and Kurri Kurri on Tuesday afternoon. Shortly after noon one of the American machine coalcutter experts left the colliery to…

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Gold at 4200ft

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 July 1905 · page 4

Melbourne, Sunday.—A good width of stone, carrying fair gold, has been struck in the crosscut at the 4200ft. level of the New Chum Railway Mine at Bendigo. The discovery is…

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Colliery Explosion

Goulburn Herald · Friday 7 July 1905 · page 4

An explosion of gas occurred at the Tide-water Colliery, Virginian, yesterday. Nine men were killed and 80 injured. Thirty men are missing and they have probably perished…

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Selling Gold Bricks

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 7 July 1905 · page 4

to young fellows who can't afford to be buncoed. It would e a mighty good thing if we could put a lot of the professors at work in the offices…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion. London, July 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 July 1905 · page 6

An explosion of gas occurred at the Tidewater Colliery, Vi[?]ginis; yesterday. Nine men were killed and 80 were injured. Thirty men are missing and they have probably perished…

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Gold in Ireland. London, July 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 July 1905 · page 6

It was announced at a meeting of the Royal Irish Society of Antiquarians yesterday that a g 1d mine yielding 2oz to the ton had been discovered near Ballyroney, County Down…

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In the Armchair. How Submarine Mines Are Laid. the Way in Which Harbours Are Protected

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 8 July 1905 · page 3

There are many people who imagine that submarine mines are holes dug in the bed of the sea by divers, and filled in with explosives which can be " fired somehow or…

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Colliery Explosion

Goulburn Herald · Monday 10 July 1905 · page 4

Au explosion of firedamp occurred in a mind at Anderlues, Belgium. Fourteen men were killed, and 12 others were injured…

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Teeth of a Sheep Plated with Gold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 July 1905 · page 2

The Sydney Herald's Dubbo correspondent re- ports that Mr. W. G. Brown, of Branaton, near Dubbo, brought to town last week the jaw of a sheep, the teeth of which on the outer [?]e were…

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Colliery Disasters. One Hundred and Twenty-three Deaths. London, July 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 2

A disaster is reported from Wattstown. Glamorganshire. Yesterday en explosion occurred in No. 2 pit of the United National Collieries, near the town, and of the miners below 123 were killed and…

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Colliery Disasters

Goulburn Herald · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 3

A disaster is reported from Wallstown Glamorganshire, Yesterday, an explosion occurred is No. 2 pit of the United National Collieries, near the town, and of the miners…

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Mine Afire in Prussia

Goulburn Herald · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 3

A fragment of stone, in falling yesterday in the Borussia mine, Dortmund, Prussia overturned a petroleum lamp, which set fire to the mine. Of the shift below at the time…

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Foreign Ownership of Coal Fields

Goulburn Herald · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 5

Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister in reply to a question in the House of Commons, and that the Government would intervene if it were true that a foreign syndicate was…

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Teeth of a Sheep Plated with Gold

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 14 July 1905 · page 3

The Sydney Herald's Dubbo correspondent reports that Mr. W. G. Brown, of Branston, near Dubbo, bronght to town last week the jaw of…

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Gold in Sheep's Teeth

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 4

Professor Liversidge, at a meeting of the Society of Chemica Industry on Wednesday evening, exhibited some sp[?]cimens of sheep's teeth that were more or less encrusted with a yellow…

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Foreigners Purchase Coal Fields

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 19 July 1905 · page 4

Germans admit that a German syndicate has purchases the Whitworth Estate, Neath, Glamorganshire. The estate contains the best unworked steam coal in the United…

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