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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1882

81 stories in Murray's papers · page 2 of 5

Black Range Alluvial Gold- Mining Company

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 April 1882 · page 14

The prospects of the Black Range Alluvial Goldmining Company are on the whole improving, and we should not be in the least surprised to hear that in the course of a…

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The Corowa Gold Mines

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 April 1882 · page 3

WE briefly referred in last issue to the visit of Mr. Arrowsmith, mining surveyor, of Chiltern, and Mr. R. A. F. Murray, the Victorian Government…

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Threatened Gold Escort Robbery at Mount Poole

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 April 1882 · page 15

Reports from the local police at Milparinka have been received by the Inspector-General of Police and forwarded to the Colonial Secretary for his information. Most of the contents…

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Mount Cudgewa Tin Mining Company

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 April 1882 · page 15

The mining manager of the above company reports that the progress made for the month ending 18th inst. was as follows :—The whole of the dead work is now completed, and…

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The Mount Poole Gold-fields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 May 1882 · page 15

Dr. Wilkie, who was sent by the Government to attend the sick at Mount Poole, has forwarded a report, dated April 4, in which he states that he experienced much difficulty on…

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The Minister for Mines

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 May 1882 · page 2

The Hon. Dr. Renwick, the Minister for Mines in the present administration, purposes visiting Wilcannia, Mount Poole, Menindie, Pooncarie, Wentworth, Euston, Balranald, and…

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The Upper Murray Tin Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 May 1882 · page 9

Some considerable excitement having taken place over the Jingellic and other tin mines on the Upper Murray, I was ordered thither to see what they were like. This appeared to me…

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An Undeveloped Goldfield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 May 1882 · page 9

I must preface my narrative by simply stating every word of it is true ; need I say more ? About fifteen years ago I was engaged in…

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Mining Managers’ Re- Ports

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1882 · page 8

Tallangatta TIN.—May 11.—The sluicing has been continued during the past fortnight with good prospects, though there is still a deficiency in the water supply. A cleaning…

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Mount Cudgewa Tin Mining Company

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1882 · page 14

The mining manager of the above company, Mr. North, last week left the Tallangatta township with 150 bars of tin, the produce of the Mount Cudgewa tin mine. The smelting of…

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Tin Mining on Upper Murray. Wheal Tallangatta Tin, and Tallangatta Creek Tin-mining Company, Tallangatta

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1882 · page 14

These companies, conjointly, have been successfully floated under the title given above. The ground secured by the company consists of 118 acres at the head of the left-hand branch…

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Temora. Mining Mems. (From the Temora Star of May 20.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 May 1882 · page 9

The last nugget found at Temora, to which reference was made at length in last Wednesday’s issue, was discovered near the boundary of No. 1 North Murray’s, and its discovery has…

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Important Mining Decision

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 June 1882 · page 15

The Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Fawcett, sitting in Banco, at the Supreme Court, Sydney, on Friday, had before them the case of Bourke v. Wright, which had been remitted for…

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Dreadful Mining Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 June 1882 · page 15

The Ballarat correspondent of the Evening Mail reports that a miner named George Pasco, working as braceman at the Llanberries claim, at the whim shaft of Fletcher and party, met…

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Tin-mining at Cudgewa

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 June 1882 · page 15

The following is from The Argus :—“The Grassy Creek Tin-raining Co. (No Liability) which is now in process of formation, has taken a somewhat novel means of bringing its…

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Mining on the Border

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 June 1882 · page 15

The reports of mining surveyors and registrars for the North-eastern district of Victoria have just been published for the first quarter of the year…

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Mount Cudgewa Tin-mining Company

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 June 1882 · page 23

The mining-manager of this company on the 30th ult. reports :—" I have the honor to report that during the last fortnight your mine has improved very much, the wash dirt being much…

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Co-operative Mining in Rutherglen Shire

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 June 1882 · page 2

WHEN Mr. M'INTYRE at the banquet to the Tariff Commissioners at Rutherglen urged upon his audience the necessity, for deep sinking on the…

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Original Correspondence. Advertising Mining Leases. To the Editor

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 June 1882 · page 3

Sir,--Will you bo good enough to let me know it it is the usual way of applicants for quartz-mining leases to advertise their applications in a paper that has no…

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Mining Accident at Cunning-ham’s Creek

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 June 1882 · page 15

A shocking mining accident happened last week at Watson’s Reef (the old Marshal M’Mahon), Cuuningham Creek, when three men, William Anthony, Thomas Hopkins, and…

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