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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1899

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Orange. Rich Find of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 August 1899 · page 3

A remarkably rich find of gold is reported near Glasson's gate by Robinson and Dowden, six pounds and a half weight of gold being taken from one bucket of earth at a depth of 25 feet…

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Terrible Colliery Disaster. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 August 1899 · page 3

A disastroms explosion has occurred in a colliery near Bridgend, Glamorganshire, South Wales. Eighteen of the minors were killed, and 6O others…

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Gold Storage of Eggs

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 August 1899 · page 2

The Board for Exports has issued directions and regulations for the information of farmers and others desirous of placing eggs in cool storage at the depot, Darling…

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Grains of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 August 1899 · page 5

More have repented speech than silence. Discretion is not cowardice, neither is blatant volubility courage. Every time a wise man makes a mistake it…

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Ball at Coal Creek

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 23 August 1899 · page 3

THE members of the Coal Creek Cricket Club are to be congratulated on the great success which attended their all, in aid of the Muswellbrook…

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Rice Gold Find. £800 Worth of Gold from a Bucket of Stone

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 August 1899 · page 2

Messrs Robinson and Dowton on Monday brought into Orange a number of specimens obtained from their claim at Byag. The stone was…

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The Bulli Colliery Dispute

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 3

The Minister of Labour has appointed Mr. Alexander Kethel to preside at the forthcoming Arbitration Conference concerning the Bulli Colliery dispute. ' '…

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Mining Notes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 4

THE registratiun of the Imperial Standard Gold-Wining Co. is gazetted. The nominal capital of the company is £6500, in 13,000 shares of 10s each,…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 6

The Government Geologist states that the black stones recently found at Graman are not diamonds, as was supposed. The furances at the Blayney Copper Mine were…

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Aladdin's Cave Rivalled. Wonderful Discovery of Gold near Vancouver

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 4

A recent despatch from Victoria (B.C.) to the San Francisco Call reports a wonderful discovery of gold near Alberni, the mining town…

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The Miners' Provident Fund

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 30 August 1899 · page 2

UNDER cover of a motion that it was expedient to bring in a bill, Mr. Cook on Thursday in the Assembly explained the scope of the scheme which he has…

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Well Done, Coal Creek!

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 30 August 1899 · page 2

THE funds of the Muswellbrook Hospital and Benevolent Society will benefit to the extent of nearly £[?] by means of the ball got up in aid thereof…

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The East Greta. Miners and the Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 3

From the Chief Secretary, the Hon. J. N. Brunker, we received this afternoon the following message, the result of notion taken by Mr.Brunker after reading in our columas of the difficulties in…

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An Expensive Coal Mine

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 16

The strangest exhibit in the British Mu-seum is the likeness of a human leg carved out of cannel coal. It came from America and represents the folly of the Prince of…

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Alleged Colliery Mismanagement

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 3

His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge has completed his report on the charges brought against Joseph Croft and Herbert Claude Croft, the Manager and Under-Manager respectively of the Newcastle Coal…

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The Miners Provident Fund

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 12

Under cover of a motion that it was expedient to bring in a bill, Mr. Cook on Thursday, Aug. 24, in the Legislative Assembly, explained the scope of the scheme which he has had under…

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Water Eats Gold

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 5

It is not generally known, even in California, that millions of dollars in glittering gold are ann[?]ally taken from, rude heaps of base-looking quartz by the…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 7

The total output of Illawarra coal during the past 50 years is 13,517 008 tons, valued at £4,974,089. At the Broken-hill Proprietary mine the wages of engineers for Sunday work have been increased…

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Orange. Gold Found in Several Places

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1899 · page 3

Shorter and party, of Rosedale Estate, five miles from Orange, sent 27 tone of ore to Sydenham's battery and Palmer's Bulga, the crushing resulting in over I6oz. of gold being returned,…

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Terrible Mining Disaster. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 September 1899 · page 3

A fearful mining disaster has [?] curred in Japan. A copper mine at Shikoku has been flooded. Six hundred minora were unable to eseape…

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