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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

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Mining Items

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 13 August 1896 · page 4

THE Mount Gahan Company held their half-yearly general meeting at the Company's office last Saturday. The balance-sheet and directors' report were read and…

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Mining Items

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 20 August 1896 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT to the VOICE writes with reference to mining matters at Mallacoota and other localities south of Pambula:—During the [?] two months…

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Mining at Bonang

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 20 August 1896 · page 6

ALTHOUGH mining has been carried on around here for the last 30 years, it never seemed to make such a general stir as it is doing now. Fresh reefs are being…

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Gazette Notices. Department of Mines and Agriculture Sydney, 7th August, 1896. Reserve From Occupation License Under

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 20 August 1896 · page 7

MINER'S RIGHT OR BUSINESS LICENSE. His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to reserve, subject to…

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Mining Items

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 27 August 1896 · page 6

The Pambula Gold Mines Company are pushing ahead with their works, both at the mine and battery site. Bricks are being carted for the construction of the…

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Gold Discovery in Peru

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 27 August 1896 · page 4

RICH gold has toon discovered in the province of Curabaya, in South-eastern Peru, on the Bolivian frontier. A nugget weighing 251b. has been…

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New Mining Lense Regulations

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 27 August 1896 · page 4

THE now regulations relating to mining leases in Victoria came into operation on the 26th inst., and it would be to the advantage of every person interested in…

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Mining Items

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 3 September 1896 · page 4

The contractors for the sinking of Mount Gabah new shaft have been pushing ahead with their work, being down come sixty feet and time[?] up. The…

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Mining Items

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 10 September 1896 · page 3

A good find has been made at Club Terrace by Hr. Noel Demarchi, a prospector from Wedderburn, about two miles north of Club Terrace, and between Foster…

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Mining Items

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 17 September 1896 · page 6

Mining generally on this field at the present is very slow, although there are but a few miners out of employment. Very few claims appear to be raising…

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Mining Leases

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 17 September 1896 · page 3

IN the assembly last Wednesday, Mr. Gould, answering a question instead of Mr. S. Smith, said that in all cases where it was brought under the notice of the…

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Gold Extraction Process. a Marvellous Invention

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 17 September 1896 · page 4

WHAT seems to be the discovery of the century in connection with the dealing with refractory ores is reported from London. If what the London…

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Pambula Goldfield. by a Miner

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 17 September 1896 · page 5

THERE is no doubt that a very large quantity of gold has been won from the Pambula Goldfield during the past six years, yet, strange to say, about…

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Mining Items

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 24 September 1896 · page 4

MOUNT GAHAN contractors have finished their contract for the first section of the new vertical shaft, and Messrs. Ben Krull and F. Davidge are the successful…

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Mining in the Clarence District

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 1 October 1896 · page 7

MR. Creagh the. P.M. and warden at Grafton, was in Sydney on Tuesday, and a representative of "The Daily Telegraph" waited on him to ascertain whether or…

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Pambula Goldfields

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 1 October 1896 · page 5

ON the Yowaka field mining is at a very low ebb. In spite of the numerous "exports" who have reported on the various properties here, capital is not…

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Local Intelligence. Gold Export

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 8 October 1896 · page 3

MR. BOOTH holds receipts from the Royal Mint, Sydney, for 17ozs 4dwt of gold sent away by him during the last week in September…

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Public Opinion. an Appeal to Miners. (To the Editor of the Argus.)

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 8 October 1896 · page 4

SIR,—The committee of the Bombala Hospital are short of funds, and should any serious strain be put upon their resources, as may at any time occur, by a…

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Mining Items. Pambula Goldfield

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 15 October 1896 · page 6

Pambula goldfield is about at a standstill. The Mt. Gahan Company are sinking the shaft with four wages men since the contractors left off sinking, but the ground…

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The Victorian Mining DEvelopment Bill

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 15 October 1896 · page 5

THE Victorian Minister of Mines, in moving the second reading of this bill, recently, said the importances of the mining industry to the colony was now…

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