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Mining & the mines, 1904

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Progress of Cessnock. the Mining Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 June 1904 · page 3

Now that Cessnock is connected with Maitland by railway, a consummation that would doubtless have been laughed to scorn had it been mentioned as at all probable a few…

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Sensational Gold Find. Fortunate Men. £1056 Worth in Three Buckets of Stuff. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 June 1904 · page 5

A telegraph to the Mines Department states that G. Clark and his two sons obtained from a small vein at Redbank, Wattie Flat, 221b. weight of gold from three…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1904 · page 3

In anticipation of the Government contract being secured in the Lithgow district, a number of men are seeking employment at the ironworks. It is said that there are…

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Mining Matters. the Sensational Gold Find

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 June 1904 · page 4

Regarding the remarkable find of gold made at Redbank, near Sofala, in the Bathurst district on Wednesday by G. Clark and sons it appears that about three…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 June 1904 · page 2

FULLER particulars than those given in the paragraph of the sensational gold find near Sofala, are to hand. A later wire says :—G. Clark and…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 June 1904 · page 4
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The senham Miner's Lodge has considered and rejected the minute of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees Federation, Proposing acceptance of the terms offered by the A.A Company in regrad…

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Progress of Cessnock. the Mining Industry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 June 1904 · page 11

Now that Cessnook is connected with Maitland by railway, a consummation that would doubtless have been laughed to scorn had it been mentioned as at all probable a few…

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Sensational Gold Find. Over £1000 Worth From Three Buckets. SYDNEY

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 18 June 1904 · page 5

It is stated that a telegram has been received by the Mines Department, stating that G. Clark aud his two sons obtained 22lb weight of gold…

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Sensational Gold Find. Fortunate Men. £1056 Worth in Three Buckets of Stuff. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 June 1904 · page 7

A telegram to the Mines Department states that G. Clark and his two sons obtained from a small vein at Redbank, Wattle Flat, 22lb. weight of gold from three…

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Stop Days in Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 June 1904 · page 3

Justice Bingham in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice has assessed the damages due to the plaintffis in what is know as the Miner's Stop Day…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 June 1904 · page 3

Interesting results have been attained at the Bnereu Deep Lead, Forest Itacfs, near Curcoar. Tlie main drive has provod pay­able wash at fully 70ft. across with on aver­age thickness of Oft. Exhaustive tests 6how thut the yield of from 7dwt. to lOdwt. to. the load can bo depended upon. This is thp most1 important development of recent years in ihn district. I_,ocnl minorn reDOrt cvon…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 June 1904 · page 7

By a narrow majority the miners' lodges of the district have decided that the Heb-burn miners should accept the terms offered by the A. A. Company for shooting down…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 June 1904 · page 3

Telegrams have been received from the Herberton district, Queensland, complaining that the miners for tin and wolfram at Glenlinedale…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 June 1904 · page 2

It was reported yesterday that Miller and party had struck a splondid copper lode at Melrose, about 25 miles north of Condobolin, at a depth of 100ft. Two bodies of are…

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Mining Matters. COPELAND

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1904 · page 2

Your correspondent writing anent mining matters on this field was evidently precipitate in accepting a current rumor for an established fact. I…

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Stop Days in Collieries. London, June 18

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1904 · page 3

Justice Bingham, in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, has assessed the damages due to the plaintiffs in what is known as the Miners' Stop Day…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1904 · page 13

Pumping operations are being curried out at the South Wallsend mine, with a view to re-opening the workings. A Balance-sheet shows that during the…

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Mudgee. Find of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1904 · page 5

A gold rush has set in at Home Rule, near Mudgee, and about 200 men are already on the field. The best result obtained so far are 8dwts, per load. Ground is pegged…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 June 1904 · page 7

At the Cockle Creek Sulphide Works during the week 1237 tons of are were treated, producing bullion and matte containing 761 ounces of gold, 34,470 ounces of silver, and…

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