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Mining & the mines, 1897

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The Week's mining

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 November 1897 · page 7

The gold yield of Tasmania from the beginning of the year to date has been 649,346oz. A movement is on foot to establish a Mine-owners Association in Sydney…

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The West Australian Goldfields

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 November 1897 · page 10

Mr. Pittman, Government Geologist, has been absent about two months in West Australia, where he visited the mines at Coolgirdie, the 25 Mile, Kalgoorlie, and Kanowna. He also visited the…

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Terrors of the Klondyke Goldfields

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 November 1897 · page 3

DURING the last few months there has been a great deal of talk About the K[?]onduke goldfields. Wo have r[?]d of men who have made fabulous sums of…

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Greenbacks and Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 5

Statements from Washington report that President Mckinley asks Congress not to stock and reissue greenbacks except against equal gold deposits…

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Dredging for Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 November 1897 · page 2

Mr. W.H.J.Slee, chief Inspector for Mines, has every hope that dredging for gold will be successfully carried on in the not very distant future In a report submitted to Minister for…

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Grains of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 3

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most. A character which combines the love of…

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The Week's Mining

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 3

The Associated Gold Mines of West Australia have increased their capital to half a million sterling. News from Auckland, N.Z., states that the Eoyal…

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Latest News by Cable. the Klondyke Goldfields. London, Nov. 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 November 1897 · page 5

The latest news to band from Klondyke goldfields states that 700 miners and other have left Dawson City, the centre of the field in order to escape starvation. There is a great scarcity of…

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The West Australian Goldfields

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 30 November 1897 · page 2

Mr Pittman, the Government Geologist, has been absent about two months in West Australia, where he visited the mines at Coolgardie, the…

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The Model Farm for Singleton. Deputation to the Minister for Mines and Agriculture. [By Telegraph] (From Our Own Reporter.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 December 1897 · page 3

THE deputation consisting of Messrs R. T. Blaxland, John Hayes, and Edward Alford, appointed by the Northern Agricultural Association,…

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The Klondyke Goldfields

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 December 1897 · page 5

Reports have reached New York to the effect that there is a famine at Dawson City, the centre of the Klondyke goldfields, and that the dearth of food is causing an epidemic of crime. Persons…

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The Klondyke Goldfields

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 December 1897 · page 3

President M'Kinley intends to ask Congress to make provision for the relief of the destitute miners and others on the Klondyke goldfields…

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Colliery Explosion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 5

A disastrous colliery explosion has taken place at Kaiserslautern, in Rhenish Prussia. Thirty-seven miners were killed and many were injured…

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Conference of Colliery Proprietors

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 6

In Sydney on Wednesday the proprietors of collieries in the Newcastle district met and discussed mutters of general interest to the coal trade. The meeting was practically unanimous as to the…

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Turning Silver Into-gold

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 6

FROM America, that land of wonders' comes the intelligence that Dr. Stephen H. Emnens, a distinguished, matallurgist, of New York City, who…

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Searching for Gold. Heavily Armed Americans on an Expedition

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 5

A GOLD-HUNTING expedition, regarding which considerable secrecy was maintained, left San Francisco recently for the South Sea Islands, where, in the Solomon Group…

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The Model Farm for Singleton. Deputation to the Minister for Mines and Agriculture. An officer to be Sent up to Report on the Site. (By Our Own Reporter.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 10

LAST Tuesday afternoon, the Hon. A. J, Gould introduced a deputation, representing the Northern Agricultural Society, to the Minister for…

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Department of Mines and Agriculture, Stock Branch, Sydney, 16th Nov., 1897

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 December 1897 · page 3

Sir,—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 14th instant on the subject mentioned below, and to state that the…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 14

At Ballumwall, near Bairnsdale (Vic), 18 tons of stone from Woods' claim yielded 34Ooz. of gold. A deposit of gold and tin has been found on the Upper Yarra, near Warburton. The Government…

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Gold Robbery in the Transvaal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 December 1897 · page 5

News from the Transvaal states that the Lydenburg coach has been stuck-up and robbed of £12,000 worth of gold helonging to the Transvaal Gold-mining Estates Company. The gold was…

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