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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1891

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The Labor Troubles in Scotland. Strike of Miners at Kilmarnock and Blantyre. Skirmish Between the Police and Pickets. London, December 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 1 January 1891 · page 24

The miners at Kilmarnock, on the Glasgow and South-western railway, have ceased work in order to show their sympathy with the railway employees on the Scottish railways who are on…

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A Duel and a Gold Mine

The Corowa Free Press · Saturday 3 January 1891 · page 2

Colonel Allen and Dan Rilley the editor of the Wyoming Star[?]ler, were giving the tariff question a friendly airing, when the colonel called Dan liar…

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Colliery Disaster in Silesia. Fifteen Miners Killed. Thirty Others Entombed. London, January 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 18

A terrible explosion occurred yesterday in a coal mine at Wilezeck, in Silesia. The dead bodies of 16 miners have been recovered, and 30 other men are entombed in the mine…

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Asbestos Mining. Some Interesting Facts Concerning a Wonderful Substance

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 2

Ashest[?], popularly know as "mineral wool," is a compound of silica, lime, magnesia and oxide of iron, and is probably the most curious natural product in existence…

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Stealing a Gold Ring

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 21 January 1891 · page 3

At the police court on Tuesday, before the Police Magistrate, Nellie Kulper, a girl about thirteen years of ago, was charged with stealing a gold ring, the…

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The Decline of Gold-mining in Victoria

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 1

THE hope entertained in the early part of last year, that the gold yield for the twelve months would show an increase over the record of 1889, has…

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A Curious Tale. How Monkeys Work in the Gold Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1891 · page 10

Many stories (says a London contemporary) have been told and written of the usefulness of these clever, sharp-eyed little animals. “I have 24 monkeys,” said a…

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Colliery Explosion in Westphalia. London, January 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1891 · page 18

A disastrous colliery explosion has occurred in Westphalia, by which 60 miners were killed and 40 injured…

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Explosion in a Russian Colliery. London, January 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1891 · page 18

A disastrous explosion has occurred in the Tasnovaba colliery, Azof, Russia, by which 100 persons have been killed, and many others injured…

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Asbestos Mining. Some Interesting Facts Concerning a Wonderful Substance

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 January 1891 · page 2

Asbestos, popularly know as "mineral wool," is a compound of silica, lime, magnesia and oxide of iron, and is probably the most curious natural product in existence…

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The Pambula Goldfield

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 4 February 1891 · page 1

MATTERS in connection with this field are developing quietly. Considering the vast extent of gold-bearing stone how proved to be far more than payable,…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 3

GREAT NORTHERN EXTENDED. -- The manager's report, dated Jan. 30, slates that the leading drive going up the lead war opening up payable…

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New Mining Venture

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 19

An unusually well-considered mining venture is brought to notice by the prospectus of the New North-West Sunlight Gold and Antimony Mining and Reduction Co., No Liability, as per…

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Fresh-gold Discoveries in Mashonaland. London, January 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 18

The expedition sent by the British South Africa Company to Mashonaland has discovered fresh deposits of alluvial gold of large extent…

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A New Gold Water Core

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 February 1891 · page 4

Attracting an a about of attention in Europe, second only at the present time to the discoveries of the great German bacterial gist, is the story of…

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Strike of Coal Laborers at Cardiff. Three Thousand Men Idle. London, February 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 18

The proposal of the coal laborers employed at the Cardiff Jocks to go on strike has been endorsed by the union, and 3000 men are now out of work. They have asked the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 February 1891 · page 3

GREAT NORTHERN EXTENDED. -- The manager reports: -- Both drives south are carrying good stopes of washdirt and prospecting well. Blocking carried on in dirt…

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Disastrous Colliery Explosion. London, February 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 18

A terrible catastrophe has occurred at the Springhill Colliery in Nova Scotia. An explosion took place in the workings, killing 156 of the miners who were below ground at the…

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Tour of the Victorian Minister for Mines. Tallangatta

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 17

The Minister for Mines for Victoria, Mr Oattrim, accompanied by Mr. H[?]witt, Secretary for Mines, and a party of members of Parliament and ladies, arrived here last night, when the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 March 1891 · page 2

THE GREAT NORTHERN EXTENDED. -- The manager reported on March 14, that the loading drives going South are opening up good payable washdirt and prospecting…

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