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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1904

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Russia wants coal

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 26 September 1904 · page 2

Russian agents at Liverpool are offering great inducements to run coal of Vladivostock, also to ships to an uninhabited island of the…

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Charters Towers mining fatality

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 17 October 1904 · page 2

News was received in Brisbane yesterday afternoon that a fire had broken out at the Brilliant Mine, Charters Towers, and had spread…

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SYDNEY, Monday. The Tumbarumba gold robbery

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 17 October 1904 · page 2

Senior-Constable Ferguson has been arrested at Col[?], in connection with the recent robbery of gold dust at Tumberumbs…

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Large gold nugget found

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 24 October 1904 · page 2

A 66-ounce nuggst has been found at the Dee goldfield, Queensland…

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Gold in Sheep's Hbads. Discovery Attrentham

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 28 October 1904 · page 3

Several weeks ago the London correspondent of "The Argue" (Melbourne), draw attention to the discovery in London of gold-plated…

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The Tum[?] Gold Robe[?] Accused Committed for Trial

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 31 October 1904 · page 2

At the Tumbe[?] Police Court on Thursday, the case against John Alexander [?] police constable on remand charged with stealing…

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Gold in Sheep's Heads. Discovery at Trentham

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 5 November 1904 · page 9

SEVERAL Weeks ago the London correspondent of The Argus" Melbourne), drew attention to the discovery in London of gold-plated teeth in cheep's heads,…

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LONDON, Monday. Colliery explosion in British Columbia

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 21 November 1904 · page 2

A gas explosion occurred at a colliery in British Columbia by which thirteen men were killed…

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Greatest Among Gold Mines

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 3

The greatest gold mine in the world is said to be the Treadwell mine, on Dougas Inland, Alaska. Fortune played a shabby trick on its…

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