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Mining & the mines, 1898

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The Yukon Goldfield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 January 1898 · page 5

The Premier of the North-West Territories (Canadian Dominien) asserts the right of his Government to administer the affairs of the district within which the Yukon goldfields are situated…

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The Klondike Goldfield. a Government Surveyor's Opinions

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 January 1898 · page 13

Mr. William Ogilvie, the Dominion Government surveyor of the North-West Territory, delivered a lecture at Victoria, B.C., recently (says the San Francisco Chronicle), on the Klondyke discoveries to…

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The Klondyke Goldfields

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1898 · page 5

Thirty Australians have arrived at San Francisco bound for the Klondyke goldfields. They report that others are on the way from Augstralia…

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The Yukon Goldfields

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 January 1898 · page 5

Letters received from New York indicate that an immense rush has started in the United States for Kiondyke and the Yukon goldfield. Five railway companies have booked 45,000 passengers across the…

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Latest News by Cable. London, Jan. 19. Colliery Explosion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 January 1898 · page 3

A disastrous colliery explosion has taken place at Taganrog, in Russia. Forty miners were killed…

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Echoes From Klondyke. First Discovery—Climate—Miners' Luck

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 January 1898 · page 3

LITTLE more than 12 months ago Klondyke was one of those unknown and inhospitable regions of snow and ice into which even the hardest…

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A Coal-lumper Killed [By-telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 January 1898 · page 3

According to the evidence given at the inquest respecting the death of a coal-lumper named Adrian Lesur, who died in the hospital yesterday, while…

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Mining Notes

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 2

The following lease has been cancelled for non-fulfilment of the labor conditions:—Wm. Bakewell, portion 11 ,18 acres, parish Omadale,…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 16

The Premier of the North-West Territories (Canadian Dominion) asserts the right of his Government to administer the affairs of the district within which the Yukon goldfields are situated…

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Later. the Mining Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 3

A number of New South Wales companies in London are agitating for a public meeting to secure an amendment in the Mining Acts, especially with regard to the security of tenure…

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One Thousand Llamas Laden with Gold

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 4

Who doesn't like to rend about buried treasure? Who hasn't dreamed of finding it? What delight suddenly to possess vast rihes? Shining gold, sparkling gems!…

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The Singleton Argus Saturday, January 22Nd. 1898. a Glut of Gold

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 2

To some people it may at first sight seem strange to express dismay at the condition of any country which is piling up gold in the coffers of its…

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The Yukon Goldfields

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 2

Letters received from New York indicate that an immense rush has started in the United Stales for Klondyke and the Yukon goldfields…

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A Mining Disaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 January 1898 · page 5

The canble of a cage at Wasmes colliery, Belgium, broke and fifteen minors were killed…

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N. S. Wales Mines. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 January 1898 · page 2

A number of New South Wales mining companies, the headquarters of which are in London, are endeavoring to secure the amendment of the New…

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Explosions in Mines

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 26 January 1898 · page 2

The pneutnalophorcs, which Mr Sydney Smith directed should be obtained through the Agent General, have been received at the Department…

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Mining Notes

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 2

The claims at Stewarts Brook are doing steady work. Mr. Adams is busy with the Stewart's Brook G.M. Company's mine getting it in…

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Frank Slavin, Tons of Gold—mushroom Millionaires

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 4

So far from being dead, Frank Slavin is very much alive, and according to the following excerpt from the London Mirror of Life, has "pegged out" in…

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The Klondyke Goldfields

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 3

The Canadian Government has given its sanction to the construction of a land grant railway from Glenova, on the Stickeen River, to Teslin Lake. The line, which is to be completed in September…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 7

The Mount Lyell proprietary mines, capital half million sterling, are issuing four hundred thousand shares. The cable of a cage at Wasmes colliery, Belgium,…

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