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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

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Mining fatality in Bohemia

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1902 · page 2

A mine in Bobemia has bern flooded. Forty persons were drowned in the workings…

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Department of Mines and Agriculture Sydney, 13th January, 1902

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 25 January 1902 · page 4

Sir,—With reference to your recommendation in support of the application of the Borabala Exhibition Society for a special Grant, I am directed to inform…

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Department of Mines and Agriculture. Seoul and Brnds, Sydney, 24th January 1902

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 1 February 1902 · page 3

Sir,—Referring to your interveiw this morning respecting the amount of £20 being grated for the erection of new Pound Yards at Delegate, I have the…

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Death of a Pioneer Gold Miner

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 1 March 1902 · page 2

LAST week there died at Merrylands Mr. George Hunt, who claimed that he discovered gold in this colony before Hargreaves did. Hunt's story was that he…

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Short Story Deadly Gold

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1902 · page 2

Miriam Gomez was the daughter of old Gabriel Gomez, 'the Portuguese Banker,' as he styled himself on his business cards…

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The Now Gold Buyers Act

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 6

[?]the Victorian Gold Buyers' Act [?] into op[?] not [?] designed…

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the Cardigan Mine fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 24 March 1902 · page 2

Two bodies have been found in the lower sorkings of the Cardigan same, Bathurst, which was recently [?] These were the remains…

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Extracting Gold From Gold-Fish

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 2

THE La[?] philedsophors, who sought to entr[?] cucumbers, have ben coli[?]sed by a "banke man" in New York, who has p[?] two Knasan…

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American Miners Strike

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 12 May 1902 · page 2

A strike of 150,000 miners employed in the [?]thrasite coal mines in Presey[?] has been ordered for Monday, [?] where the right…

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The Unemployed and Gold Fields

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 17 May 1902 · page 2

GEORGE VERE (Hill End) writes to a contemporary: Some of your correspondents must indeed be hard set for modee of ralieving Sydney of its unemployed…

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A Questionable Gold Mine

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 7

A MAN named William Henry Here, described as a commercial traveller, was committed for trial at the Perth Police Court last week on a charge of having…

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Tax on Pretoria gold

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1902 · page 2

A proclamation has been issued at Pretoria imposing a tax on gold, equal to one-tenth of the gold produced after deducting the cost of production…

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Mines Under the Ocean

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 5 July 1902 · page 9

The Chi[?]an coal mines, opened in 1[?]55, seem to be quite pleasant placet to work In. The team of coal runs from the coast line under the waters of the PseUd Ocean, and…

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The Power of Coal

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 9

A pound of what we will call average [?] would be somewhat smaller in size than a man's list. A pound of this coal, if expended in mechanical work, would give us…

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Mining on Mt. Sinai

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 7

REPORT credits Mr. Alfred Morning, a miner, who has had a successful career in South Africa, with the purchase of Mount Sinai, on which the Bible teached…

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Riotous Scenes at a Coal Mine. Attack on a Non-unionist. Women Commence the Disturbance

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 19 July 1902 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—The following telegram was received at the office of the Outtrim Coal Company to-day:—"Five men were arrested last night, charged…

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Intercolonial News. SYDNEY, Thursday. Terrible Mining Disaster at Mt. Kembla. Nearly 200 men entombed. Rescue party at work. Several bodies recovered

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 3

A terrible explosion occurred at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Mount Kemble Colliery, five miles from Wolloogong. It was heard eight miles away. All the doctors have…

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The West Australian Gold Yield

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

THE gold yield for West Australia for the month of June totalled 189,620 1/2ozs The estimated value at £3 13s per ounce is £620,114 17s 2d the fine contents of…

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The Mining Disaster

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 4 August 1902 · page 2

About sixty bodies have been recovered from the mining disaster at Mount Kembla, near Wollongong. A…

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Awful Colliery Disaster. the Mount Kembla Colliery Wrecked. Eighty-four Boddies Recovery Sydney, Thursday Night

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 8 August 1902 · page 2

An appalling disaster occurred at the Mount Kembla colliery, near Wollongong, yesterday, by which the mine was partially wrecked, and upwards of 150…

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