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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1898

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Mining

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 1 September 1898 · page 6

THERE appears to be some prospect of the Pambula goldfield looking up again shortly, and it is to be sincerely hoped that such will prove to be the case…

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Cooma Warden's Court. Friday, 2nd September. Before Mr. J. Mckensey, Mining Warden

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 September 1898 · page 2

The adjourned case of J. McDonald and par[?] Macdonnell, was heard. The mining party consisting of J. McDonald, P.D. Morphy,…

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Cooma Mining Warden's Court. Monday, 5Th September

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 5 September 1898 · page 2

Before Mr. J. McKensey, Mining Warden. Thomas McManus applied for suspension of the labor conditions for 3…

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Mining

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 8 September 1898 · page 4

THE Delegate River correspondent to the "S. R. Mail" says:—Mining matters are progressing favorably all through the district. Messrs. T. Marriott, R. Marriott…

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Bound in Gold

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 9 September 1898 · page 4

The only gold-and-silver bound diamond-encrusted book in the world was lately enshrined in the holy Mohammedan city of…

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Four Barrels of Gold

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 29 September 1898 · page 4

ONCE a man of the laboring class who had often wished to be rich was offered all the money he wished for if he would accept, without a murmur, the troubles and anxieties that…

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Gold Working in the Transvaal

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 3 October 1898 · page 3

Men engaged in extracting gold from ores will find in a recent treatise, published at Frieberg in Saxony, a useful…

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News From Klondike. Two Tons of Gold

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 7 October 1898 · page 4

The latest Klondike news brought by the steamer Moana, which arrived at Sydney on Sunday, states that the steamer Micheal reached San…

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The Bloke Teat Sneaked the Coal

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 14 October 1898 · page 3

At a Sydney public school quite recently, during Scripture lesson, the teacher was explaining to the class about the devil being…

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Gold Find at Kurnalpi

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 24 October 1898 · page 3

It is reported that 109ozs. of gold have been unearthed at a spot five miles north of Kurnalpi, South Australia. This makes…

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The Cyanide Process of Gold Extraction

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 24 October 1898 · page 4

The chemical principle involved is the solubility of gold and of most gold compounds in dilute solution' of potassium or sodium cyanide…

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Mining Progress the Cooma District. Pumping Machinery at Middle Flat

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 31 October 1898 · page 1

One of the growing mining industries of the Cooma district which promises to assist in the development of this part of the colony as a mining…

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Mining on Private Property. the Little Plains Cases

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 14 November 1898 · page 2

At the Bombala Quarter Sessions held lost July His Honor Judge Fitz[?]arlinge bound over a number of Chinese appear for sentence in…

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Coora Creek Mining

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 18 November 1898 · page 5

A correspondent writes: Cowra Creek is once more emerging from the cloud of depression that has hu[?]g over it for some…

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Colliery Disaster. Three Miners Entombed. Greta

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 24 November 1898 · page 5

A TERRIBLE colliery disaster occurred at East Greta, at 7 this morning, when three miners named David Gronow, leader of the shift, Bertie Monteith, and Steven…

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How Entombed Miners Met Death Cassell's Saturday Journal

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 25 November 1898 · page 3

A Mining story would be considered incomplete without a harrowing description of the hero's sufferings during an…

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The Klondike Gold Fields

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 28 November 1898 · page 4

J. W. Prince, a working miner, fate of—Yalwal has written from Dawson city cautioning all Australian miners who might think of…

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The Lust For Gold

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 1 December 1898 · page 6

A TALE of horrible suffering, finding in a tragic suicide, is brought by the mail steamer Warrimoo, which arrived from Vancouver on Fridya. A young…

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Cowra Creek Mining Notes

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 December 1898 · page 2

A correspondent writes:—Since my last, things have been going briskly Cashman and party cleaned up at Williams' Battery 30 tons…

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Tel[?]mde of Gold a Deposit in New South

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 December 1898 · page 5

The following report has been submitted by the Government Geologist on the above subject :—"Since the discovery of the extensive rich telluride…

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