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Mining & the mines, 1894

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The West Australian Gold- Crashing Reports. Reports of New Discoveries [By Telegraph.] Perth

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 11 April 1894 · page 2

THE crushing returns from the Central mine are 387 tons, yielding 170 ozs; New Clum, 203 tons for 630 ozs. Reports have been freely circulated…

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A Trip to Wyalong. the Gold Field

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 April 1894 · page 4

The population of the field has been variously estimated at between 7000 and 10,000, and although Mr. Slee is reported to have opined that 10,000 men are there the number is generally believed to be…

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District Telegrams. Newcastle. Friday evening. Miners' Delegate Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 April 1894 · page 3

A very important meeting of the representatives of the various miners' lodges was held yesterday in Newcastle. The chair was taken by Mr. Adam Cook, president of the Miners' Association. All…

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Our Goldfields—booming and Remedy. To the Editor

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1894 · page 2

Sir,—I am informed by Sydney friends that no matter how good a gold mine in the present state of the market, it would not be looked at—even a…

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The Western Goldfields. an Eighty-two Ounce Nugget. Perth

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1894 · page 2

The crushing returns from the Central mine [?] 387 tons, yielding 170oz. New Chain, 203 tons, 339oz. Reports are freely circulated of a new…

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Clyde Goldfield

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1894 · page 2

With regard to the discovery of gold at the Clyde River, it is, we under: stand, intended to grant Mr. MuMahon, the owner of the property on…

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A Trip to Wyalong. the Gold Field

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1894 · page 3

The population of the field has been variously estimated at between 7000 and 10,000 and although Mr. Slee is reported to have opined that 10,000 men are there the number is generally believed to be…

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The Miners Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 April 1894 · page 2

CONCERN was naturally the note of the miners aggregate meeting at Lambton on Saturday at the prospect of the collapse of the Miners' Association. Resolutions were passed…

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District Telegrams. Newcastle. Monday evening. Miners Aggregate Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 April 1894 · page 3

In gursuance of a resolution passed at the last meeting of Miners Delegates an aggregate meeting of members of the H. R. Minors Association was held on Saturday afternoon in the Lambton Park…

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District Telegrams. Newcastle. Tuesday. Be-opening of the Co-operative Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1894 · page 3

One of the heaviest blows that has yet been received by unionism in this district was delivered yesterday. The Co-operative Colliery, which has been under the ban and remained idle for months…

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Eating Gold

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1894 · page 4

The Jew money-lender and millionaire, Hirseh, who acquired the right to call himself an Austrian Baron, but who in, Austria is less than nobody,…

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A Great Gold Find near Dungog. Dungog

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1894 · page 3

Great excitement prevails here over the great find of gold on the Monkerai by Moore and party. Lumps of gold have been unearthed as large as a man's fiat, and will be brought to town on…

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Mining

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 2

The Lady Belmore Mine, Edwards & party, will commences crushing at the Hidden Treasure mill next week. They have about 30 tons at grass…

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District Telegrams. Newcastle. Friday. the South Waratah Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 3

This colliery still remains idle, and the possibility of an agreement being arrived at between the proprietary and the miners seems aa distant as ever. However the miners and their families exist is a…

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The Jerger Gold-Saving Machine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 2

We referred yesterday to the successful trial given on the Maitland Show Ground by Mr. John Jerger, the inventor and patentee of a new gold-saving and gold-washing machine, of which much…

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The Great Gold Find at Dungog

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 2

We printed on Wednesday a brief telegram from our correspondent at Dungog, reporting the discovery of a great find of gold at the Monkerai, near Dungog. The specimens were to be brought to…

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The Mining Bill. Passed Through the Council. the Third Beading Carried

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 2

The Mining on Private Lands Bill came up in the Council and passed its final stages. Dr MacLaurin moved the third reading of the bill…

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The Reported Gold-Find at Dungog. Dangog, Saturday forenoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 3

There is only one reef at Monkerai, on which claims have struck gold, bat this is of a very good class. McInnes and party have brought in some very…

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The Reported Gold Finds at Dungog

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 April 1894 · page 2

While at Dungog on Friday and Saturday last I was afforded an opportunity of interviewing three or four of the partis interested in the reef at Monkerai, some 19 miles from Dungog, where rich…

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Mining News. the Dungog Gold Fields

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 2

This morning one of our reporters, who was accompanied on his trip to Dungog last week by Mr. Dave Dunlop, of the Volunteer Hotel, received a communication from him, in which he says he…

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