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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

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Terrible Colliery Disaster. London, January 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1896 · page 20

A terrible disaster has occurred at the Urangel Colliery in Prussia. An explo-sion took place in the mine while the men wore at work below, the result being that…

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Gold at New Cuinea

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1896 · page 29

The Brisbane Courier has a telegram from its Cooktown correspondent, dated 21st December, as follows:— The schooner Ivanhoe arrived from New Guinea, via…

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Famous Rush for Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1896 · page 39

The recent rush of several thousands of the old time goldseekers from the mining camps of Arizona, New Mexico, and California to the new fields in Oklahoma recalls…

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The Mining Conference

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1896 · page 20

The Minister for Mines, Mr. Sydney Smith, has approved of Wednesday, 5th February, being fixed as the opening day for the Mining Conference, for which…

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Gold at Woomargama

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 January 1896 · page 17

The following official telegram was received by the warden yesterday from Germanton A very rich reef has been discovered at Woomargama, seven miles from Germanton. Several…

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Mining at Eskoale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 January 1896 · page 17

P. Drummond and partner last week crusted trial at Swan's battery of 3 1/2 tons for a yield of 2[?] per ton. This claim is on J Brown's lioe, and is 10in. wide and very easy ground to work,…

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Corowa Deep Lead Gold Prospecting Co

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 January 1896 · page 3

THE following correspondence has been handed to as for publication :-- Corowa, Dec. 14,1895. The Directors Corowa Deep Land Gold…

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Fire in a Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1896 · page 28

The fire which broke out on Saturday morning at Mr. Lansel's Comet mine, Red[?]n Hill, proved to be a most destructive one, the winding and air-compressing…

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Children's Column. a Cargo of Burning Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1896 · page 11

The reader may think that while coal must be a dirty cargo it is in other respects an innocent one, but there is no shipmaster who does not dread a long voyage with…

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Omeo Goldfield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1896 · page 29

The gold yield for the Omeo division for the quarter ending December last is 719loz., of which 4515oz. came from the Glen Wills field. This is the greatest…

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A Rich Gold Field. a Miner's Dream

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 January 1896 · page 4

The following letter sent to the editor of the Bunbury (W.A.) Times of December 30, will be read with interest, inasmuch aa it gives the history of the discovery of the…

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The Mining Industry. a Chat with Mr. Wallace

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 January 1896 · page 39

The great efflux of the manhood of the colony which has been going on for some years, and which has increased since Western Australia held out its attractions…

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Colliery Explosion in Wales. Fifty Miners Killed. London, January 27

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1896 · page 26

A terrible colliery disaster has taken place at Cardiff. An explosion occurred in a mine, with the result that 60 miners were killed…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 January 1896 · page 6

At the Southern and Prentice, the pumps are being put in and these will be ready, fixed in order to allow sinking being resumed in a day or two,…

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Mining at Nymagee

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 28

The warden's clerk at Nymagee has forwarded to the Mines Department a report on the prospecting grant of £62 10s. made to Messrs. Kinnear and party…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 3

MINING matters remain very quiet, and may be expected to remain so for another month, when a change should take place. This should bo brought…

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A Lucky Mining Speculator

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 29

Mr. R. Lavery, of Warrnambool, who was very fortunate on the West Australian goldfields, has started on a trip to the old country. It is only 12 months…

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Affairs in the Transvaal the Reports From the Rand Gold-field. London, January 31

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 26

The recent alarming reports as to continued disorders in the South African (Transvaal) Republic, and the announcement that President Kruger has intimated his…

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Warden's Court. Wednesday, February 5, 1896. Before Mr. W. F. Parker, Mining Warden)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 February 1896 · page 4

An application by the Hillside Gold Mining Co. for the suspension of work at the claim for three months, was granted…

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Traveller. They Love the Gold

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 February 1896 · page 1

Climate affects the inhabitants of the sea just as it does those of the land. As Arctic land plants cannot flourish at the Equator, so in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans marine…

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