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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1898

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The Rutherglen Goldfield. Success and Disappointment. Some Good Prospects of Gold. the Southern and Prentice to Stop Work

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 November 1898 · page 3

IN the North Prentice Extended mine at Rutherglen a splendid sample of gold has been won from a couple of dishes of dirt. The gold is coarse, and some of it angular,…

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The Klondyke Goldfield. Privation and Death of Gold-seekers. Terrible Tale of Suffering. Victoria (B. C.), October 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 November 1898 · page 35

The latest news from the Klondyke tells of an unusually rich quartz find at the head of Dominion Creek, from which so much coarse gold has been taken from the placers…

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The Romance of Lost Mines

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 30 November 1898 · page 4

The romance of gold has few chapter more interesting than those which tell mines which have dazzled for a moment with their promise of millions,…

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The Klondike Gold-fields. a Gloomy Picture

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 December 1898 · page 24

Mr. W. Alderson, who left Sydney 13 months ago for Klondike says that he has proved by personal inspection that the gold-bearing are of that field is not nearly so…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 December 1898 · page 28

Early on Thursday morning a shocking fatality occurred in Block 12 (Jamieson's section) of the Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, when John Edward Maddern was…

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Corowa Deep Lead Gold Mining and Prospecting Company No [?]Ility. Half Yearly Meeting of Shareholders

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 December 1898 · page 3

THE [?] ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the above named Company was held at the Royal Hotel (having been formally [?] for convenience…

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Mining in China. Mr. Pritchard Morgan's Contract. London, November 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 December 1898 · page 27

Mr. William Pritchard Morgan, M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil, has obtained from the Chinese Government a preliminary contract to work certain mines ia the province of…

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District Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 December 1898 · page 3

MUCH activity is being displayed throughout the district. After years of patient waiting, the North Prentice bids' fair to reward shareholders, the statements made…

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Gold Scarcity and Production

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 December 1898 · page 2

NOTWITHSTANDING the pleasing stories which are told by our metropolitan contemporaries concerning the increases in the world's production of gold, the money…

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Mining Bursaries

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 December 1898 · page 28

It was announced some time ago that bursaries would be offered by the Department of Mines to encourage the youths of the colony to take up the…

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A Mining Report

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 December 1898 · page 28

A Sydney paper publishes the following excerpt from the letter of a Sydney mining syndicate to their local representative at Wyalong: "The report of Mr…

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The Greta Colliery Disaster. the Bodies Recovered

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 December 1898 · page 27

After five weeks continuous work, the rescue party has recovered the three bodies entombed in the East Greta colliery. The first body recovered was that of Daniel…

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Howlong Water Supply. Department of Mines and Agriculture, Sydney, 23rd December, 1898

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 December 1898 · page 15

Sir,—With reference to the letter dated the 18th November presented by you from Mr. A. D, Hall, hon. secretary of the Howlong Progress Committee, asking to he supplied with…

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