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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1903 · page 12

Nineteen tons of stone from the Just in Time claim, Mount Elliott, near Albury, were put through the battery last week for a yield of 64oz. 3dwt…

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Coal Won by Ice

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 March 1903 · page 4

To freeze the way clown to fuel which is to bunish cold sounds absurd, but it is at least a "slim" way of circumventing the enemy;…

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Gold Declining in Value

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 March 1903 · page 2

Until recent times both gold find silver have been used as measures of values, says Mr. C. L. Redfield in the "Engineering Magazine," and…

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The Arltunga Gold Field. Two More 15 Inch Reefs Found. Probable Permanency of the Quartz

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1903 · page 12

Mr. Brown, the South Australian Government Geologist, left Adelaide for Arltunga on Monday, and there were between 80 and 100 miners and prospectors on the train. The favourable report of Dr…

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The Arltunga Goldfield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1903 · page 3

Four new syndicates are being formed in London with the object of pushing digging in the vicinity of A[?]gs goldfield, South Australia. [The Minister controlling the Northern Territory…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1903 · page 4

A nugget weighing 75oz has been found at the alluvial rush at Waanyarra, in Victoria, by Smith and party. Claims have been taken out at the spot some three miles from Tarnagulla, but the…

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The Water Supply of the Mining Towns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1903 · page 2

The Hon. J. N. Brunker has received from the Public Works Department the following letter dated March 6:—SIR,—With reference to previous correspondence…

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The Arltunga Goldfield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1903 · page 3

Mr. H. A. Grainier, the Agent-General for South Australia, has cable to his Government asking for reliable information of the Arltunga goldfield. The Sydney correspondent of the Daily Mail mentions the…

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Teansvall's Hidden Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 3

The Daily Mail states that the British Government have sent detectives to Delagoa Bay to search for £4,000,000 of Boer gold supposed to ba still hidden. The detectives have been promised a reward of 5 per…

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Mining Matters. Winnecke's Depot and Arltunga

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 2

Dr. Chewing, F.G.S., gives the following expert report of Winnecke's Deprt, Central Australia:— "At Winnecke's Reward the end face of one reef is exposed, showing it to be about six feet wide, and to…

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Hills of Gold. Astounding English Reports. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 2

EXTERAORDINARY reports are being published in some of the Londen newspapers regarding the new goldfield at Arltunga, in South Australia…

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Yambulla Goldfield. (To the Editor of the Scone Advocate.)

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 2

SIR,—As a rule very little interest is taken by local residents in mining news of other fields, but there are many of your readers, principally…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1903 · page 2

During February the Waihi mine in New Zealand treated 18,1699 tons of ore for gold valued at £53,641, thus exceeding all previous records. The total value of bullion won so far is £2,605,554…

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The Alleged Buried Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1903 · page 3

The Daily Mail minimises the story about the buried gold belonging to Kruger at Delagoa Bay. The correspondent of the Standard at hamburg has been assurred by the Consul that the story of…

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Letter to the Editor. the Victorian Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1903 · page 6

SIR,—The dispute at the Outtrim and Jumbunna pits, which has now lasted seven weeks, arose through the proprietors dispensing with the services of all their men; and…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 March 1903 · page 2

There is still no prospect of a settlement of the strike at the Outtrim and Jumbunna coal mines, Victoria. Correspondence continues to pass between the companies and the men, but the…

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Hidden Boer Gold. Search, for £4.000,000. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 March 1903 · page 2

THE Daily Mail reports that the British Government recently sent detectives to Delegoa Bay (Lorenza Marques) to search for £4,000,000…

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Hargraves. Rich Find of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 March 1903 · page 3

A telegram from Hargraves states that the richest stone ever seen there was broken out on Wednesday from Cassidy'a claim on Tucker's Hill. The warden is credited with saying that he has never…

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Mining Matters. Winnecke's Depot and White Range

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 March 1903 · page 4

A report from Captain Pleitner, to the Undoolya Mining Association, Adelaide, dated White Range, February 18, reads as follows:—"I have been over a good deal of country since my arrival here, but I…

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Mining Matters. Australia's Coal Resources

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1903 · page 2

Mr. J. L. C. Rae, the new president of the Engineering Association, in his address at the opening last night of the association's 33rd session, made some interesting references to the coal resources…

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