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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

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Mining in New South Wales. the Yambulla Goldfield. Some Sensational Discoveries Near the Victorian Border. an Immense Auriferous Granite Belt

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 2

Since the beginning of the present year reports more or less of a sensational kind have been circulated concerning the discovery of gold reefs on the Yambulla field, and it was with the object of placing…

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Mrs. Reits takes £150,000 worth of gold

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 2

Mrs. Raits, wife of the Transvaal State Secretary, left Delagoa Bay with £150,000 worth of gold…

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Gold commandeered

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 11 June 1900 · page 2

The total amount of gold comm[?]red by the Transvaal was two million pounds…

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Mining

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 6

THE Pambula Mines Limited, are now sinking their main shaft a further distance of 40 feet, which will make it a total depth of 180 feet. They then…

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Find of gold

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 23 July 1900 · page 2

Gold of the vales of £12,000 has been found at Wolmarans in a house…

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Short Story the Wizard Gold Ball Harper's Magazine (U.s)

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 30 July 1900 · page 4

The crowning achievement of Jeelay was the Wizard Ball which would could carry farther than any other bill ever made. He kept this a…

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Coals £1,000,000 a Ton Mrs. Patrick Campbell's Gold How Was It Stolen

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 30 July 1900 · page 3

Who stole Mrs. Patrick Campbell's money and how was the theft done? These questions are puzzling…

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The Newcastle coal trade

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 6 August 1900 · page 2

Ninety vessels are waiting at Newcastle for coal cargoes…

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Fatal mining accident

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 6 August 1900 · page 2

The jury in an inquest touching the death of a miner named William Dennis returned a verdict of accidental death. Deceased was…

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Australian miners for South Africa

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 13 August 1900 · page 2

Mr. Rendle, representing a South African engineering firm has written to the secretaries of the Mine Managers Association and the…

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Another Rich Discovery. Half a Hundredweight of Gold in a Day. Gundagai

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 17 August 1900 · page 2

A sensational find of gold is reported from Robinson and Rice's mine at Long Flat. A visitor to the mine says that half a hundred-weight of…

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Sensational Gold Finds

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 6

GUNDAGAI, Monday.—The sensational find of gold at Messrs. Robinson and Rice's mine, Long Flat, has caused much excitement here. The discovery was…

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Mines and Mechanics for South Africa

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 4

CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused among the members of the mining community at Bendigo, when it became known that Messrs. W. Wilson…

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Miners and Mechanics for South Africa. MELBOURNE

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 24 August 1900 · page 6

Considerable interest was aroused among the members of the mining community at Bendigo when it became known that Meesrs. W. Wilson…

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Long Flat Gold Find

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 6

GUNDAGAI, Thursday,—In connection with the sensational find at Messrs. Robinson and Rice's mine, Long Flat, nothing was done from Saturday last…

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Important Discovery of Coal. Extensive Area in Queensland

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 27 August 1900 · page 3

Mr. B. Dunstan, an assistant geological surveyor has just returned to Brisbane after a visist of some months to the district in the neighbourhood of the Dawson and the…

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Sensational Gold Find At. Brown's Camp

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 1 September 1900 · page 5

THERE is nothing like a good gold find to cause a stir, and during the week excitement has been running high over a rich discovery made at Brown's Camp by…

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Sensational Gold Find

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 3 September 1900 · page 2

Daring the week (report the "Bombala Harald") excitement has been running high at Delegate over a rich discovery made at Brown's Camp by…

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The Victorian mining scandal

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 17 September 1900 · page 2

Much interest is evinced in the Glenfine Not (Ballarat) mine salting out, case, which an enquiry is to be uncle, The detective…

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Fatality at the Cobar Mine. Two Men Killed Seven Men Injured. Cobar

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 October 1900 · page 2

Shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon a terrible accident occurred at the Cobar goldmine by which two men were killed instantaneously and…

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