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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

274 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 14

Mining at Omeo

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 January 1895 · page 28

The much-despised and greatly neglected county of Croajingolong is at last receiving some attention. Prospecting for gold is being carried on there with a certain amount of…

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Newcastle Mining Troubles

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 January 1895 · page 28

At the Hetton Colliery, Newcastle, on Saturday afternoon 240 miners struck work and brought out their tools. The news spread rapidly, and caused considerable excitement…

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Miners’ Congress in Germany. an Eight Hours Day De-manded. London, December 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 January 1895 · page 18

The first national congress of miners held in Germany has met at E[?]sen, in Rhenish Prussia. A demand has been formulated by the…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Saturday 5 January 1895 · page 4

The Carlyle Proprietary G.M. Company held an extraordinary meeting on Friday last at the Offices of Messrs. Mendell and Cameron, 31 Queen…

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The Miners’ Difficulty

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 January 1895 · page 29

The difficulty at tho Wallsend Colliery, where the miners are on strike, owing to the company refusing to allow “ cavils ” and propping reductions, is in a fair way of…

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Mining Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 January 1895 · page 29

A miner named Oven Robert Oven, aged 58 years, met with a serious, mishap at the Collmann and T[?]ccbl mine, Bendigo, on Friday morning. With James Nankervis he was…

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Terrible Mining Fatality

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 January 1895 · page 28

A young miner named Thomas Franklin met with a shocking death in the New Red, White, and Blue Consolidated mine, Bendigo, on Monday afternoon. Two parties of miners…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 January 1895 · page 6

Most of the blocking faces at the Great Northern Extended are now on the north side of the lead, where the wash is poor, but soon there will be…

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The Dora Dora Tin Mining Co

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 January 1895 · page 37

The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in this company was held on Wednesday evening at Day's Commercial Buildings. The statement of receipts and expenditure…

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Mining in Victoria

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1895 · page 28

At the instigation of the Minister of Mines the Mines Department is displaying much activity in endeavoring to find suitable places in new country for the establishment of mining…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 January 1895 · page 5

The parties at the Great Northern Extended are now working right across the lend, a distance of 375ft, so that nothing may be left behind on either…

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Serious Colliery Disaster. the Workings Swamped by Water. Two Hundred and Fifty-one Miners Entombed. One Hundred and Forty Rescued. London, January 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1895 · page 18

The coal-mining district of Audley, in Staffordshire, has been the scene of a dreadful disaster, which has caused intense excitement in the neighborhood and…

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Gold Discovery at Mount Wills

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1895 · page 29

An Extraordinary rich shoot of gold was dis-covered on Saturday in the Democrat mine at Mount Wills. In the air shaft sunk 45ft. north from the No. 1 shaft, stone calculated to…

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Victorian and West Australian Mining

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 January 1895 · page 4

THERE is a time-worn adage which enunciates the truth: -- A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about bis feet,…

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The Bulgandra Reefs. a Promising Goldfield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1895 · page 25

On the principle, I suppose, that “for away fields are aye green,” there has always been a disposition on the part of the mining population to devote time, money,…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 January 1895 · page 7

AT the Prentice Freehold a trial washing from the channel near the shoot, No. 3 north, yielded about 1oz. to the fathom. The gold was an excellent sample, and it…

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Albury Warden’s Court. Thursday, January 24. (Before Mr. Warden Browne.)BA[?]IN Creek Gold and Tin Mining Co

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1895 · page 21

Hugh M’Catcheon, one of the directors of the company, applied with A. E. Wells and others to lease, under the provisions of the Mining on Private Property Act, certain…

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The Davis Calyx Drill. Coal Prospecting and Artesian Well Boring

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 January 1895 · page 4

The development of science is year by year adding to the sum of human knowledge and extending the range of the vision of the human eye. Time was when man's powers…

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Important Mining Decision. Publication of a Gazette Notice

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1895 · page 37

At Tallangatta on Wednesday last, Mr. Warden Rowan gave a decision of considerable importance to the mining community, involving the question as to the time at…

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Victorian Mining

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 28

A statement prepared in the Mines department shows the yield of gold in each of the mining districts of the colony for the last two years. Last year the entire quantity produced…

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