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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1894

161 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 4 of 9

Beach Mining

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 10 April 1894 · page 2

Mr. Robert Young writes:—The cheapest way to prospect the beach is by a light boring apparatus, capable of being worked and carried anywhere by, at most, three…

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Serious Accident at Keiba Mine

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 10 April 1894 · page 2

Mr. George Pratt, of Paradise, was seriously injured by a fall of coal on Friday morning last. The injured man was holeing on a very dangerous face, and had just…

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Mining Items

Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 11 April 1894 · page 2

SOME fossike[?]s on private land at Murrumbateman have found nuggets and fine gold by occasional searching with a pick and dish…

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The Gold Boom

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1894 · page 3

Mr Joseph Creer, superintendent of the Labor Bureau, considers that we are "on the edge of a genuine gold boom." During the last six months the Labor…

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A Novel Gold-extracting Invention

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1894 · page 3

Mr. Benjamin Gray, the well-known mining engineer, whose inventive genius has been pretty well tested in this district, has, we are informed, eclipsed all…

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Notes From Bulli. Mining

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1894 · page 2

The Austinmer mine has worked every day this week, and it is hoped the pit will continue to work, as the dull times can driven some men away to the goldfields…

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Keira Notes. Coal Trade

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1894 · page 3

Work at the pit has been slack for [?]he last fortnight—only 5 1/4 days. The [?]utput of large coal for the same time has been 2331 tons, besides slack, of…

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The Clyde Goldfield

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1894 · page 3

The Milton Times of Saturday in a report of the proceedings at Brooman on the arrival of Mr. M'Mabon, the proprietor of the land on which the…

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Mining on Private Lands

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 19 April 1894 · page 2

The Legislative Council on Tuesday devoted almost and their entire sitting to the Mining on Private Lands Bill, when the unusual spectacle of a debate on the third…

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Notes From Bulli. Mining

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 3

The Austinmer mine has not worked during the week. Another reduction is sought to be imposed, but it is not finding acceptance with the miners…

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Mining Revival

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 4

A Sydney correspondent of the Dubbo Dispatch says:—The revival of the goldmining industry just now is causing some little excitement in Sydney, Not…

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The Austinmer Mine. (To the Editor.)

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 26 April 1894 · page 2

SIR,—I note in your issue of the 21st a paragraph as follows:—"The Austinmer mine has not worked during the week. Another reduction is sought to be imposed…

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The Rich Gold Find Near Dungog

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 April 1894 · page 4

Reports from Monkerai state that Moore and party have struck a rich gold reef at 80th. About 400z. have been taken out. There are a lot of rich…

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Mining. the Discovery at Captain's Flat

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 April 1894 · page 4

The Minister for Mines yesterday received the following telegram from Warden Clarke, of Braidwood:—"Referring to a report in Tuesday's Daily…

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The Austinmer Mine. (To the Editor.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 2

SIR,—In to-day's issue of the Mercury I notice Mr. J. Mitchell takes exception to what I wrote concerning the above mine on the 20th inst. I received the information…

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The Discovery of Gold in New South Wales

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 4

"History repents itself." This is constantly being proved, and the reader of the following will note how the history of nearly half a century ago is…

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The Austinmer Mine

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 1 May 1894 · page 2

MAISTER EDITOR,—When readin' your paper the ither day I saw Mr. Mitchell's letter compleenan' about yer correspondent sayin' anither reduction was sought tae be…

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The Working of Collieries

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 3 May 1894 · page 4

It will be recollected that early in March, a select committee, consisting of Messrs. Slattery, Cook, Edden, Nicholson, M'Court, Melville, Cann…

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Coal-mining Notes

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1894 · page 2

Our Bulli correspondent" writes :— Operations at the Austinmer mine were resumed on Tuesday last, the usual price of 1s 6d per ton for filling coal and slack…

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The Working of Collieries. Dr. Robertson's Evidence (Continued)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1894 · page 4

Mr. Edden: Especially if a reduction, is wanted :—I do not object to the men making the very best of their bargain. I have always recognised that the…

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