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

Mining & the mines, 1906

332 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 11 of 17

Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 August 1906 · page 2

OUR correspondent learns from Mr. Ramsay that his metallurgical expert, Captain W. H. Sowter of South and West Australian experience, will join him at Harden on Friday…

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Gold for the Winning

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 3 August 1906 · page 1

MILLING,' a well-known English paper devoted to wheat and flour trade interests, has come out with a special enlarged Australasian number. " No…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 August 1906 · page 2

OUR Harden correspondent writes:—"Captain W. H. Sowter, metallurgical expert from Adelaide, arrived at Harden on Friday, and was welcomed by Mr. C. Ramsay. After…

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Big Mining Deal

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 6 August 1906 · page 2

It is understood that the final payment on account of the purchase by an English company of the Great Cobar copper mine and allied properties will…

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Coal Mine Fatalities

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 August 1906 · page 3

An accident occurred in a coal pit at Marchiennes, near Charleroi (Belgium). Nine persons were killed…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 August 1906 · page 3

OUR Harden correspondent writes:—With reference to assays of ore from Mount Rose Mine, viz., 66 per cent. copper by wet assay and 60 per cent. copper by fire assay, as…

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Coal As Food. a Wonderful Discovery of Science

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 8 August 1906 · page 4

Our remote descendents may [?] The coal miner may then be one of the most important of food producers…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 2

LAST week the Jembaicumbeno Middle Ground dredge ran 123 hours. This, together with 105 hours for the preceding week, made a total run of 221 hours. The wash up gave…

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Romance of Gold. Mine Shareholders Receive Eight Millions in Eighteen Years

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 4

City company meetings, as a rule, are prosaic functions. But the gathering in the city on 18th March of the shareholders of the Mysore Gold Mining Company-- one…

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Merrilla Copper Mines

Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 August 1906 · page 2

GREAT in crest is taken in the Merrilla copper field, about sixteen miles from torn. The prospectors, Messrs. Gillett and Mc Cabe, known as the "Lucky Hit Syndicate,"…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 15 August 1906 · page 2

Mr. C. G. Ramsay, manager of the Perseverance Mining Agency, writes:—" Captain W. H. Sowter, metallurgical expert, has been kept busy examining the properties in his…

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Sensational Gold Robbery. Mine Watchman Blindfolded

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 August 1906 · page 2

Kalgoorlie, Wednesday.—A sensational robbery of amalgam from the battery house of the Golden Ridge mine, Boorara, took place shortly after 1 o'clock this morning. At the time stated three…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 August 1906 · page 2

Captain W. H. Sowter, metallurgist, reporting to the manager of the Perseverance Mining Agency upon the Dalton gold reefs, says in the course of his statement that there are…

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Salt Mines Worked by Russian Convicts

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 August 1906 · page 2

Russian prisoners sent to Siberia are set to work in various ways, many of them being employed in silver and salt mines. In an open salt mine or quarry at Iletsh all the manual…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 August 1906 · page 2

FOLLOWING are reports of Captain W. H. Sowter, metallurgist expert, on the Waratah and Toohey's (near Dalton) Creek mining properties:—…

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Dragoons Shoot Down Miners

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 August 1906 · page 4

While dragoons were dispersing a meeting of miners at Usovka. Ekaterinoslav. South Russia, shots were fired from the back of the crowd. Thereupon the dragoons fired five…

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Notes in the N.s.w. Parliament. Mining Bill. Gambling Bill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 August 1906 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners' Appointment Bill was considered in the Legislative Council on Wednesday night. Mr. Creed, who took up the discussion, intimated his opposition to clause 3, and…

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Mining Warden's Court

Goulburn Herald · Friday 31 August 1906 · page 2

IN the Mining Warden's Court yesterday before Mr. Warden Maitland, the application of Frederick Cooper of Merrilla for suspension of labor conditions on a mineral…

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New Mining Bill

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 2

Everyone admits the heavy nature of the task which is undertaken when an attempt is made to codify and liberalise the multifarious and illiberal mining laws of New…

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Miners Strike

Goulburn Herald · Monday 3 September 1906 · page 4

Six thousand miners at Rhymney, Monmouthshire, and 4000 at Maestog, Glamorganshire, struck, owing to the employment of a non-unionist…

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