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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

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Terrible Mining Accident. Seventy Miners Entombed. New Zealand

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 3

A terrible disaster occurred at the Brumner mines, and 70 miners are entombed. It is believed that all base perished. Two bodies have been recovered…

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Sensational Gold Find at Tumbarumba

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 3

Considerable excitement was caused at Tumbaromba on Tuesday owing to the rich find of gold by the Messrs Heinicke, of Upper Tumbarumbs. members of a…

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By Electric Telegraph. Terrible Mining Disaster. New Zealand. Thursday, March 26

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 3

[?] terrible disaster has occurred at the Brunner [?] Seventy miners have been [?] and [?] believed that all have perished. Two of the [?] have been recovered…

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Literature. Vanished Gold Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 9

An interesting chapter in the history of gold and silver mining, which still remains to be written, is that relating to lost mines—that is mines of fabulous richness, once…

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Dreadful Colliery Catastrophe. Every Man in the Mine Killed. Auckland

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 15

The little mining township of Brunnerton, situated seven or eight miles from Greymouth, on the west coast of the South Island, was the scene to-day of an appalling…

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The Wahgunyah Mine

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 4

A few days ago while on a visit to the mine, our reporter was shown four handsome prospects obtained from new drives and from the wash…

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Eskdale Miners' Association Sports

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 19

The miners' sports came off on the recreation reserve on Friday, and were a brilliant success. The day was beautifully fine and the result was a monster attendance, visitors from Sandy Creek,…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 4

The Chiltern Valley United bottomed their bore for a shaft site at 301 12 feet, a little deeper than was expected, or even desired, so that the…

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The French in Madagascar. Permits to British Miners Refused. London, March 27

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 27

The French authorities in Madagascar have refused to give permits to British miners to enable them to carry on mining operations in the island…

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The Ararat Goldfield

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

Mr. Reyinald Murray, the Government geologist, was recently in the Ararat district, he travelled over some of the country between Ararat and…

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The Wahgunyah Gold Mining Company No Liability Rutherglen

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

THE half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Wahgunyah Gold Mining Company was held in Melbourne on Tuesday last, when the…

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Rutherglen Mining News. Alluvial Gold at the Rose of Victoria

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

MR. T. H. Harris has lately been prospecting in the old Rose of Victoria workings for the reef which is supposed to exist in that locality, and…

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Intercolonial Items. Amalgamated Miners' Association

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 28

A deputation from the Amalgamated Miners' Association waited on the Victorian Minister of Mines, and submitted a number of resolutions passed by that…

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Mining at Tumbarumba

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 25

In consequence of the report from our Tumbaromba correspondent, which appeared in a late edition of the Courier last week, respecting an extraordinary find of…

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The Mining Industry in Victoria

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

THE impetus which has been given to mining in the colony during the last few months is illustrated by the fact that the number of leases issued…

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The New South Wales Mining Returns

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 27

The annual report of the Mines Department for the year 1895 shows that the aggregate value of the minerals obtained in New South Wales to the end of 1895 was…

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Amalgamated Miners' Association. Rutherglen Branch. Celebrating Their Anniversary. a Big Success

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 4

IT must be extremely gratifying to the members of the Rutherglen Branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association, to know that the sports…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 39

A correspondent says :—"Through the pest office I learn diggers and others who have migrated to West Australia have been returning to their relations…

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Rutherglen Mining News

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 April 1896 · page 3

Rutherglen and Carlyle Proprietary.--No. 11 bore started 150ft west No. 10 bore, and down 190ft. North Prentice.--No. 1 jump-up, cast reef…

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The Mining Industry at Rutherglen

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 April 1896 · page 4

TWELVE months ago Rutherglen ranked as one of the most promising gold-fields in Victoria, and a big future was predicted for the town…

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