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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1894

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In White and Gold

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 3 January 1894 · page 6

White and gold effects were never more of a rage than at present. Quaint and curious pieces of furniture abound in all well-regulated drawing-rooms, no longer…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 5 January 1894 · page 3

GREAT SOUTHERN. -- Upper level drives 10ft., total 405ft.; lower level driven 9ft., total 329ft. GREAT NORTHERN. -- Surface works and…

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Mining Near Orange

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 January 1894 · page 29

A. report has been received by the Secretary for Mines and Agriculture from Mr. Newman, M.L.A., of an important discovery made in the Orange district through the agency of the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 3

GREAT NORTHERN. -- No. 3 jump up [?] parelling with seven parties, mostly in wash of fair quality. Of No. 1 jump up cross cutting and panelling with six parties…

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Mining at Barmedman

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 28

The warden’s clerk at Barmedman has forwarded a report to the Mines D apartment upon the new gold discovery at Wyalong No. 1 station, about 20 mites north-west of…

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Gold Find in Washington. Lumbermen Make a Lucky Discovery

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 17

A remarkable gold story is reported from Snoquamie Falls in Western Washington. These falls are 265 feet high, and the pool below is of unknown depth. Recently…

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Accident in the Broken Hill Mine. Subsidence of Ground. Two Men Buried

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 27

A serious accident occurred in Block 11 of the Proprietary mine on Tuesday morning. The ground in the neighbourhood of Binney’s open cut, which is sunk in…

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Beechworth Mining Returns. an Increase of 5000oz. for the Quarter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 15

The gold returns for the quarter ended December 81 in the Beech worth mining district, amount to 15,952oz. 16dwt. 2gr., being an increase of nearly 5000oz, over…

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The Coolgardie Gold-field

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 January 1894 · page 27

The latest reports from Coolgardie state that the town is practically deserted, everybody having left for White Feather, Siberia, and Ninety-mile. There is said to be any…

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Mining Mems

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 January 1894 · page 37

The half-yearly meeting of tie Do a Dora Tin Mining Co. was held last week. The report showed that it would be necessary in order to work the claim profitably…

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The Mount Wills Goldfield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 January 1894 · page 28

Local authorities do not agree with Mr. Rosales, the scientific and practical mining expert, who reported to the Mines Department against the probability of Mount Wills…

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Lost Gold Mines

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 24 January 1894 · page 4

RESIDENTS of the Atlantic Coast have searched for the hidden treasures of pirates for a century past, and so great is their willingness to expend a vast value of labour…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 January 1894 · page 3

GREAT NORTHERN JUNCTION. Rutherglen 20th Jan. -- Shaft bottomed on a soft pipe clay bottom, Monday night last, at 203ft. Shaft snok 13ft. since and preparation…

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Deaths From Drinking Gold Water

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 January 1894 · page 37

A boy aged 9 and a girl aged 13, the son and daughter of Mr. Closhey, farmer, of Karyrie, returned from school in an overheated condition, and drank seme cold…

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Fatal Mining Accident. a Miner Killed in a Shaft

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 January 1894 · page 15

A fatal accident happened at the Ironbark Gully rush, Avoca, on Monday, by which Andrew Lindgrew, [?]ner, aged about 60 years, lost his life. He was working…

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A Timber Mine

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 2

At Mongtza, in China, there is a [?] mine. The trees have been buried under sandy soil to a depth of twenty fee[?] are well [?] Apparently they…

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Wandiligong Mining

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 February 1894 · page 18

The visit of the Minister of Mines and patty last week has been the principal topic of conversation in mining circles here. There is no doubt they were deeply…

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Mining Intelligence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 February 1894 · page 3

GREAT NORTHERN, Rutherglen, Jan. 26. --At No. 3 jump-up south panelling with seven parties in wash, mostly of poor quality. At No. 1 jump-up south panelling…

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A Timber Mine

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 7 February 1894 · page 6

At Mougtse, in China, there is a timber mine. The trees have been buried under sandy soll to a depth of twenty feet, and they are well preserved. Apparently they…

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The Delight in Gold Weather

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 7 February 1894 · page 6

'I never take cold by exposure,' said Mr. Gladstone to a party of admiring visitors at hawarden, when his examples of the art of felling trees had carried them into the…

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