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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1897

220 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 11

The Premier and the Mining Industry

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 29

The Premier's reply to the Chamber of Mines respecting recent utterances as to the investment of outside capital, is regarded by the gentlemen concerned as a…

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Nanima Creek Goldfield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 25

As this most promising and extensive field appears to be a veritable terra incognita to the mining fraternity, aud quite ignored and un-noticed by the Sydney press, whilst other dufflag…

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The Yukon Goldfield. Starvation at Dawson City. London, November 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 27

Since the winter set in at the Klondyke gold-field, British Columbia, provisions have become scarcer than ever at Dawson City. Several hundred persons have left…

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Corowa Deep Lead Gold Mining and Prospecting Company. Half-yearly Meeting of Shareholders

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 December 1897 · page 2

THE fourth ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the above company--adjourned from the previous Saturday--was held at the Globe Hotel, Corowa, on…

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District Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 December 1897 · page 3

The excellent return of 18oz. 16dwt. of gold has been obtained from a trial washing of two machines of dirt at the Kelly's Freehold--the old Great…

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Venturesome Miners

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 8 December 1897 · page 2

A number of miners left yesterday by the American mail steamer for the Klondyke fields…

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Can Gold Be Made

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 8 December 1897 · page 4

If Dr. Stephen H. Emmens, of New York, a well known American chemist whose explosive, "emmensite," has been adopted by the U.S. Government…

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Colliery Disaster. 37 Miners Killed. London, December 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1897 · page 26

A disastrous explosion occurred yesterday in a coal mine at Kaiserslautern, in Bavaria. Thirty seven miners were killed, and many others injured…

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Mining Reforms

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 December 1897 · page 2

AT the outset of what promises to be an extended mining career it would probably be to the interest of shareholders if mining matters were placed on as substantial…

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Gold in New Guinea. Alleged Valuable Find

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1897 · page 25

Reports from New Guinea state that Mr. Shauahan, the Government agent at Mambare, has discovered a valuable fluid four days' march from Tomato Camp, and has…

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Accident on the Darmstadt. Coal Bunkers Explode. London, December 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 December 1897 · page 26

An accident occurred to-dsy on the North German Lloyd's Imperial mail steamer Darms[?]adt, which left Melbourne on October, 12, and arrived at Bremerbaven last…

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District Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 December 1897 · page 3

A REPORT from the Upper Murray states that a crushing of [?] tons from Courtney and Rhodes's claim, cleaned up a few days ago, yielded 37½ oz…

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Daring Gold Robbery. £12,000 Stolen. London, December 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 December 1897 · page 26

A daring gold robbery has been committed in the Transva[?]l. The coach running from Lydenburg, a gold-mining town 144 miles north-cost of Pretoria, was stuck…

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Gold at a Shilling a Ton!

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 December 1897 · page 1

It is just within the bounds of possibility that the Klondyke goldfields may exceed in richness the wildest dreams of even the most sanguine prospector, and so cheapen gold as…

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District Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 December 1897 · page 3

AT the [?] this week more work has been done in cutting up the blocks and less in blocking out, consequently not so much ground has been got over, the…

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Intense Gold

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 24 December 1897 · page 4

Christmas, 1800, was noted as the coldest day known in England for fifty years. The lowest rounding of the thermometer registered was [?]…

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An American Venture. Mining in the Solomons

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 December 1897 · page 4

The American schooner Sophia Sutherland, with a party of prospectors on board, arrived at Solomon Islands from San Francisco on November 8. The expedition is…

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Queer Story of the Recovery of a Gold Spoon

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 December 1897 · page 9

Lady Middleton contributes to one of the magazines an interesting article, wherein she relates a series of strange "recoveries" of lost articles. A lady was supping at a Queen's…

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The Klondyke Goldfields

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 25 December 1897 · page 4

Three returning visitors from Klondyke—Messrs. Davis, Galloway, and Lean—were passengers by the Warrimoo, which arrived from British…

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Science. Especially for the Gold

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 29 December 1897 · page 1

3lbs of loaf sugar, 2 drachms of essence of ginger, 2 drachms of essence of cayenne, 1 drachm of burnt sugar, 1 drachm of essence of lemon, ¼oz tartoric sold, and 3 quarts of…

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