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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 January 1893 · page 2

GREAT NORTHERN,--Worked five dave less eight bones and obtained 152ne Leading drive going south from No. 1 jump up exlended 20lt when reef commenced to…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 January 1893 · page 3

GREAT NORTHERN,--Main lower south reef drive extended 90ft. full length 730ft. No 1 Jump-Up South--Two of driver going east, advanced 30ft Then struck…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 January 1893 · page 3

GREAT SOUTHERN.-- Sank Aft., making 341ft. In very bad shooting ground and water increased to about 9,000 gallons per hour. GREAT NORTHERN EXTENDED.--HORSES…

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The Miners’ Strike at Saar Bruck. London, January 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 January 1893 · page 24

The miners’ strike at Saarbruck, in Rhenish Prussia, has completely collapsed, the men having all returned to work. The mine owners at Saarbruck have dismissed 1000 of…

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The Coincident Curse of Gold

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 25 January 1893 · page 1

The goldseekers of both America and Australia have a singular but well-grounded superetition that the discoverers of hidden treasures are sure to meet with violent…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 January 1893 · page 3

GREAT NORTHERN.--Wash from dirt in the high ground up the lead somewhat poor, but crosscutting and pannelling down the lead is still carried on in wash of about the…

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Mining at Cullinga. (Cootamundra Herald.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 January 1893 · page 27

A large number of townspeople and visitors have this week visited the Cullinga mines, the chief attraction being the wealthy Tilden’s claim—that opened by Messrs. James Tilden…

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Mining Accident in Wales. London, January 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 January 1893 · page 18

A disastrous accident has occurred in a mine at Aberdare, near Merthyr Tydvil, in South Wales. A number of miners were engaged in sinking a shaft when the walls…

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Terrible Colliery Disaster. London, January 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 February 1893 · page 18

A terrible colliery disaster has occurred at Teplitz, in Bohemia. While a large number of men were below in the mine an explosion of firedamp took place. Immediate efforts…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 February 1893 · page 3

GREAT NORTHERN. Main lover level-- South reed drive extended [?] total 360th Ne. 1 jump south-- Crosscutting and panelling are being carried on mostly in…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 February 1893 · page 29

At the North Old Chum Mine, Bandigo, John Grant and James Quick fired a shot in the stores over the 1000ft. level on Friday. They tried the groupd overhead with an iron…

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Brown Coal for the Railways

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 February 1893 · page 29

The suitability of Victorian brown coal for locomotive engine purposes will shortly be the subject of a series of tests to [?] carried out under the direction of the Mines Department…

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Fearful Colliery Disaster. Seven Miners Drowned. Toowoomba

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 21

A dreadful colliery disaster, the worst that has happened in connection with the floods, occurred about noon to-day, resulting in the death of seven miners. The scene of the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 3

GLENFERN:--Sunk 10ft, total 84[?] Erected small winding [?], which delayed sinking this week. GREAT NORTHERN:--Main lower level…

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Grains of Gold

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 1

An act of kindness never dies. They do much that do a thing well. Love decreases when it ceases to increase. If you would be borne with, bear with…

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A Mining Romance

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 1

A very curious story of mining romance comes from France. It appears that about a hundred years ago there was a flourishing silver mine near St. Brieue, employing…

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The Mining on Private Property Bill. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 37

In the Assembly to-night, Mr. See, the Treasurer, in reply to a question, said that the matter of imposing a tax on stock coming into New South Wales would be decided by the…

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Life in a Mining Camp. Omaha World-herald

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 15 February 1893 · page 1

LIFE in a mining camp bears an ideally picturesque aspect, and whether situated in the dark shadow of some rocky gorge, through which rushes a noisy,…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 3

GREAT NORTHERN EXTENDED.--In western workings started driving on south side. This drive is opening good parable washdirt; sample of gold course. It will…

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Th E Mining on Private Property Bill. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 February 1893 · page 37

In the Assembly to-night, Mr. See said it was true that the Government was placing £750,000, the balance of the Treasury bills, on the London market on the advice of the Agent-General,…

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