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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

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The World's gold

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 3

Though the such for gold is so keen [?]owadays, it is a remarkable fact that the amount of the pr[?]dous metal which is turned into coin by the world's mints…

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Band mine owners warned

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 14 January 1901 · page 2

Lord Kitchener has warned the nine owners of the Rand that dynamite mines have been laid, and that the military will not be…

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Yambulla Goldfield

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 2

A correspondent sends in the following interesting account of the Yambulla gold-field:— Doubtless, a little information to the…

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Mining Prospects. Delegate and Bombala Districts

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 February 1901 · page 2

At the enquiry held by the Public Works Committee at Delegate, Mr. For guson, of the S. M. Herald, gave interesting evidence with regard to the mines…

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Yambulla Goldfield

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 February 1901 · page 2

As this gold-field is now exciting some interest in mining circles owing to the regularity and consistency of its crushings a short historical sketch of it may prove…

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Victorian Gold Jubilee Exhibition

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 9 February 1901 · page 2

ONE of the first Exhibitions of the now century, and probably one of the moot attractive shows of the new Commonwealth, will be that which it is proposed…

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Mining

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 16 February 1901 · page 3

Mining on the Pambula field in very dull. The only Comapanio[?] at work and The Pambula Mines, Ltd., and the Falkner G.M.Co…

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Alarn Abating at the Gape. Some Slimness." T[?] Mines. Cape Town, Jan. 15

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 18 February 1901 · page 2

Since my letter of a week are the [?] has thanks [?] is the [?] of the [?] Government brighten[?]…

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Gold-mining in New Guinea

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 25 February 1901 · page 2

For many years past parties of adventurous Australian diggers have been gold-mining in British New Guinea meeting as a rule…

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Mining accident at Bendigo

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 25 February 1901 · page 2

George Turner a miner was killed by an explosion at the [?] gold mine [?] He placed a drill in an old hole when…

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Drowned in a mining dam

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 25 February 1901 · page 2

Alfred Brinsmead of ven was drowned in a mining dam at Bendigo…

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Official Correspondence Department of Mines and Agriculture, Sydney, 27th February, 1901

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1901 · page 3

SIR.—I am directed to inform you that the Secretary for Mines and Agriculture has approved of a Special Grant of £50 being paid to your Society, and you are requested…

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The Canker Worm of Gold

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 1

Lord Charles Beresford, in the 'North American Review,'says that:—British society has been eaten into by the canker of money. From the top…

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The coal duty question

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 2

Speaking at Newcastle on Saturday night, the Hon. R. E. O'Connor, who is a candidate for the Federal senate stated that it was not Contemplated to put a duty on coal the rumour to that effect was he said a billy fabrication His remarks met with rounds of applanse…

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A Night in a Mining Camp

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 2

One night says the author of a curiously interesting article in Frank [?] popular Monthly, things came to a climax. Marshal…

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Yambulla Goldfield

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1901 · page 3

The main camp where the post-office and most of the business places are situated is called Ladysmith, the main street has been surveyed and is named Haugh street…

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Yambulla Goldfield

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 30 March 1901 · page 2

THE "S.M. Herald's special mining reporter has again visited Yembulla, and writes thus:—"The chi[?] district in centred in [?]field…

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[?] Gold Dridging Co. [?] Plains. a Successful Launch

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 2

Faster Monday was a [?] day on the [?] by the [?]…

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The Yambulla Gold Field

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 3

Mr. J. P. Jacquet, Government Geological Surveyor, has forwarded the following report to the Minister for Mines on the Yambulla field:—"Yambulla is…

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Transvaal mining fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 2

Twenty-six natives in a cage being drawn to the surface in the Goldenhin's Deep mins, Transvaal, were killed by the rope breaking…

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