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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1895

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Mining Law

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 October 1895 · page 2

THE bill to amend the Mining on Private Lands Act of 1894, introduced into the New South Wales Legislative Assembly by the Minister for Mines,…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 October 1895 · page 5

THE good prospects obtained in the first bore of the Rutherglen and Carlyle Proprietary Company have led the directors to closely examine their property and to investigate…

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Discovery of Gold at Mornington

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

A number of golden specimens were privately exhibited on Monday in Mr. G. W. Staples’s office, Collins street, Melbourne. The remarkable richness of the…

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Corowa Deep Lead Gold Prospecting Company

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 October 1895 · page 7

A MEETING of the shareholders of this company was held at the office of the legal manager, on Monday night. There were about 30 present-- the chairman of…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 October 1895 · page 3

Since work was resumed at the Wahgunyah Mine every progress has been made. The shaft has been sunk to the required depth and the opening set fixed An sir…

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A Mining Suit

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

Warden Maitland and two assessors were engaged at Queanbeyan on Tuesday hearing a case brought by William R[?]id, who purchased in 1891 from the Bank of…

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Rutherglen Quartz Mining Prospects

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 October 1895 · page 6

WE have so often dealt with the prospects of the mining industry in the Rutherglen district that we are almost afraid that our readers will…

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Mining on Private Lands Act Amendment. Important Amendments. Increase of Area for Alluvial Leases

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 October 1895 · page 2

THE re-appearance in Parliament of the Mining on Private Lands Act for amendment was to be expected. The introduction of the measure into the Statute Book…

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The Goldfields of Coolgardie

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 23 October 1895 · page 3

The Earl of Fingall contributes an interesting article to the Saturday Review on the Coolgardie goldfields:— Arrived at Coolgardie, my first thought…

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Gold at Kiandra

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 27

A prospector, who has visited a new rush six miles from Kiandra, write? as follows to a friend in Adelong :—“The first discovery made was running [?] and west, 2 feet, cutting…

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Mining Trouble

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 28

Grave trouble is again imminent in the Newcastle coal trade, owing to the notice of further reduction given by J. and A. Brown, of the Miami collieries. If the…

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Mining at Wahgunyah

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

FOR some weeks past the Wahgunyah Sluicing Company, consisting of Mr. J. Gibson and party, who, as previously stated in these columns, took a lease of…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 6

The boring operations carried on by Messrs Peacock and Ralston at Ugadale have given very satisfactory results, and on Monday morning last a bore bottomed at…

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The Amendment in the N. S. W. Mining Laws

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

IN the Assembly last Tuesday week, the Minister for Mines, Hon. S. Smith said:-- I now wish to move the insertion of a new clause dealing with special circumstances…

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Original Correspondence. the Corowa Deep Lead Mining and Prospecting Co. To the Editor

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

SIR,--This is a matter which affects the interests of the residents of the district, whether shareholders of not, and its one of the former I desire to enter a public…

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A Heavy Gold Yield

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 30 October 1895 · page 2

A crushing of 23 tons of quartz from Jones's Caledonia mine at Gympie (Q.) has given the phenomenal yield of 16,000 ounces of gold…

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Victorian Mining Statistics

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 November 1895 · page 29

According to returns furnished by the Victorian Mines department, the yield of gold for the quarter ending the 3[?]th ult. was 183,976oz, being 16,611oz greater…

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Corowa Deep Lead Gold Prospecting Co

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 November 1895 · page 19

The fourth half-yearly meeting of share. holders of the Corowa Deep Lead Gold Prospecting Co. No Liability was held at the company’s registered office, Sanger-street, Corowa,…

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Rutherglen Mining News. Rutherglen and Carlyle Proprietary.-- Bore down 241 feet

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 November 1895 · page 3

Barambogie.--All work carried on as usual; blocking pushed on as quickly as possible, but work somewhat retarded by ground being very…

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Better Than Gold

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 November 1895 · page 4

There are but few things in this world more highly appreciated or eagerly sought after than gold. Why ? Not because it is an attractive colour; not because it weighs more than any…

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