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

Mining & the mines, 1905

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Gains of Japan. Railways and Coal Mines. London, Sept. 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 September 1905 · page 2

Mr. Denison, the legal adviser to the Japanese Foreign Office, who with Professor Maartens drafted the treaty of peace between Russia and Japan, values the…

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Gold Rush at Trunkey

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 September 1905 · page 4

Blayney, Saturday.—A rush has occurred six miles this side of Trunkey, near Craiglee. All the country has been pegged out. The prospectors, Wright and party, struck…

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The Welsh Colliery Explosion. Loss of Many Lives

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 19 September 1905 · page 4

A terrible col[?]lery explosion, so disastrous that there is reason to fear that for loss of life it will rank with the worst accidents in the South Wales…

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Gold Rush.—Some Promising Yields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 September 1905 · page 2

Trunkey Creek, Monday.—With regard to the gold find near Craagle, it has been reported that Mr. Hunter dollied 10½oz from 401b of atone on Saturday. Yesterday a further 156z was dollied…

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Kangiara Mines. Evidences of Progress.[special.]

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 21 September 1905 · page 2

The Prospectors, Cooney and party, trucked to-day (15/9/05), 86 tons of are to Cockle Creek Smelting Works. They have 41 tons of ore still at grass. Up…

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A Cowra Gold Mine

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 4

A private advice in forms [?]s that a gold mine in the Cowra district, recently purchased by some Victorian capitalists for £25,000, is going to…

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Kangiara Mines

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 1

BOWNING, MONDAY,—The prospectors Cooney and party, trucked this week [?] of ore to Cookie Creek [?] works. They have 41 tons of ore still at…

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Gold Find at Trunkey

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 2

A telegram from Blayney on Saturday states, that a rush has occured six miles from Trunkey, near Craigee. All the country has been pegged out…

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Gold Rush at Trunkey

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 4

Blayney, Saturday.—A rush has occurred six miles this side of Tr[?]nkey near Craigl[?]a. All the country has been pegged out. The prospecors,…

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Large Coal Order

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 September 1905 · page 2

Russia has ordered 60,000 tons of steam coal from Cardiff to be delivered on the earliest date possible. LONDON, Wednesday. AUSTRALIAN SWIMMERS…

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Coal for Russia

Goulburn Herald · Friday 29 September 1905 · page 3

Russia has ordered 60,000 tons of steam coal at Cardiff, to be delivered at the earliest moment…

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Mines on the High Seas

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 October 1905 · page 4

The Chinese steamer Hsiehie has been destroyed through striking a drifting mine off Shan-king. Fifteen of those on board perished…

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Cordillera Mine

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 2

We have it on the best authority that the old Cordillera mine will shortly start working again. Years ago the mine was worked for silver,…

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Making Gold from Silver

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 3

The electric theory of matter has received a strong impetus at the hands of Lodge. Thomson, Crookes, and others, especially since the discovery of the…

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Kangiara Mines. [SPECIAL]

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 9 October 1905 · page 3

The Democrat, Beenard, Hall and party, have their shaft down about sixty feet. Here the water in somewhat of a trouble and means constant bailing. Aid from…

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A Floating Mine. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 October 1905 · page 2

The British steamer Leho struck a floating mine off Shantung. Fifteen passengers and the crew am missing. JAPANESE SEIZURES…

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Mining Bill

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 5

The Mining Bill which was introduced on Tuesday makes a whole sale sweep of the many existing provisions of the existing acts, which are consolidated into one and divided…

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Purchase of Gold

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 October 1905 · page 4

The bank to-day is buying bar gold at £3 17/9[?] per fine ounce, and is securing the bulk of supplies in the open market…

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Mining Dispute

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 October 1905 · page 2

THE Warden, Mr. F. P. Meares, P.M. was engaged all day on Monday, as a Mining Court, to determine an application lodged by the Deep Leeds Company for registration…

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Railway Management. Charge of Maladministration Coal Contract Prices

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 25 October 1905 · page 3

IN the legislative Assembly on Thursday night, Mr Holman said that he wished, as a matter of urgency to move that so much of the standing…

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