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Mining & the mines, 1899

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After the General Grant's Gold

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 16

The ketch Anna has just left Invercargill (N.Z.) for the Auckland Islands to make another attem pt to recover the gold on board the wrecked ship General Grunt. This vessel was lost in May, E866,…

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Grains of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 November 1899 · page 6

Live as though life were earnest, and life will be so. The heart cannot always repress or account for the footings which sway it…

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Mining Notes

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1899 · page 3

LEASE approved :—E. Johnson, jun[?] 4, 1 acre, parish Omadale. Leases ready for delivery :— W. L. Adams, 1a 3r [?] NO. 181, parish…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 December 1899 · page 15

In the Supreme Court of "Western Australia, Mrs. Catherine Parsons lisa been awarded by a jury £546 for the loss of her husband as a result of an accident in Hannan's Star gold mine…

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Movements of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 December 1899 · page 5

The shipments of gold from Melbourne by the Or[?]z to-day, reports Thursday's Argus, consists of £3500 for London, shipped by the Orient S.N. Company. From Sydney she…

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Grains of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 December 1899 · page 6

The merry-hearted have a fortune that thieves cannot steal. The gift of silence is often more valuable than the gift of speech…

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BUSHRANGING in Victoria. a Mine Manager Robbed. Police in Pursuit of the Desperadoes. Albury

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 December 1899 · page 3

The bushrangers who on Saturday stuck up Matters, Visick and Geddes, manager and clerk of the Southern No. 1 North P[?]ntiesmine, Rutherglen, and robbed them of about £2,000, were tracked on…

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Where Gold Fish Are Reared

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 December 1899 · page 4

Many aquariums of England are periodically replenished from a gold fish 'farm,' in Shelby County, Indiana, about thirty miles from Indianapolis…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1899 · page 6

The minors arrested at Kalgoorlie in connection with the alluvial trouble were on Monday committed for trial. Bail was refused. The gold produced in the colony during the 11…

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Our Mining Resources

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 December 1899 · page 3

A MOVEMENT has been started with the object of securing the publication of an authorative work on mining in this colony, giving a digest of the…

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Mining notes

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1899 · page 2

The Imperial Standard Co., Stewarts Brock, put through a parcel of 15 tons at the Standard battery last week, which gave the satisfactory…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 December 1899 · page 14

The November return of the Great Boulder Main Beef was l195oz. from 1255 tons of sulphide ore. The Southern Mineowners' Association has promised an increase in the howing rats of 1d per ton…

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A Mining Story

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1899 · page 5

A young man returned home a few days ago from a trip to Johannesburg for his health, and, in narrating his adventures, he told about buying a silver…

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"King Solomon's Mines."

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 23 December 1899 · page 6

The following story is told of the way in which "King Sol[?] Mines came to be written:—Several years ago and shortly after "Treasure L[?]" and…

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" King Solomon's Mines."

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1899 · page 5

The following story is told the way in which " King Sol[?]mon's [?] nes" came to be written:—Several years ago, and shortly after "Treasure Island" had…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1899 · page 8

The Victorian coal contracts this year range from 17s 9d to 22s 9d per ton for the local product. Dividends totalling £37,000 have been declared at Charters Towers, and it is expected that the…

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Grains of Gold

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1899 · page 5

Vanity is the only intellectual enjoyment of many people. Pride is the first weed to grow in the human heart, and the last to be eradicated…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 December 1899 · page 5

The New South Wales gold yield this year is the best since 1862. It amounts to over 500,000 ounces. The Southern coalminers have rejected the…

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The Supply of Gold

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 December 1899 · page 5
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

The question of the permanency of the Randt output is one which is difficult to discuss in the short, space at my disposal. I shall content, myself,…

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