The Coal Export
We we giving away a million tons of coal annually, sapping our foundational resources to that extent; sending it out of the country, and getting nothing whatever in return…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Mining & the mines, 1899
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Border Mining
A correspondent writes :—" A few crushings, none of them very encouraging, have lately taken place in the neighborhood of Spring Creek, between…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →A Great Alluvial Field. the Chiltern and Rutherglen Mines
In 1858 mining operations first commenced in the Chiltern district, and from that time to the present there has been no period during which they were altogether stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Original Novel. [Ail Rights Reserved.] Marian Gonisby. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. How Gonisby Made His Gold
FORTUNE HUNTING is one of the keen businesses in Australian life. Perhaps the term fortune-hunting may with more force he applied to a generation that is passing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Wants
Representatives of the mining interests Mount Deddricks and Snowy River have again pressed the Victorian Premier to consider the difficulties of transport in that…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Yield of Gold
The Minister for Mines, Mr. Cook, has had the gold returns for the year prepared, and is gratified to find that a substantial increase in the quantiry and value of the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →New Mining Discovery
A very important find, which is expected to open up an entirely new gold field, is reported from Yarran Jerry, county Bourke, on conditional purchase land owned by…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The Mammoth Mining Leases [From the Rutherglen News.]
FOUR applications of several Melbourne gentlemen, forming a very strong syndicate for about 30,000 acres along the Murray River, from Lake Moodemere to the Mitta…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Novel. [All Rights Reskrved.] Marian Gonisby. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. How Gonisby Made His Gold
HUNTING is one of the keen business in Australian life. perhaps the term fortune-hunting may with more force be applied to a generation that is passing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stumbled Upon Gold Mines
Gold was discovered in California in 1848, and in Colorado in 1858. The discovery was accidental in both cases, and the fact created the impre[?] that mines were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rutherglen Mines
During the Premier's recent trip through the North—Eastern district he was taken to visit the Southera and Prentice United Company mine, at…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Electric Mining
An important scheme fop the prosecution of gold mining with electrici'y as the motive power was brought under the notice of the Minister for Mines recently…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Fatal Mining Accident
An inquest was held at Rutherglen into the death of John Celestino Baptist Gronchi, aged 35 years, killed on Saturday by falling down the shaft of the Great Southern and…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Wahgunyah Police Court Friday, January 20,1899. (Before Captain Burrowes, and Mr. R. Kilborn, J.p.) Debt Case. J. M. Dormer v. W. Holland, £3 1s, 9d. goods gold and delivered. Settled. Detention of a Cow
Robert Alston v. Emma Whittaker, for after having seized a cow, the property of plaintiff, for the purpose of impounding, did not deliver up the same on his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Life at Klondike. the Gold Output
A special despatch to the San Francisco Chronicle from Dawson City, dated November 19. says that the production of gold from Klondike exceeds that of last year a…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Dredge Mining on the Murray
A gigantic scheme of mining dredging, proposed to be carried out by the Welcome syndicate on the Murray gravel flats, in the Rutherglen district, was brought prominently…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →A Wonderful Mine
There is a deep mine in Sweden (says the author of the " Rob Roy in the Baltic ") very celebrated for its ore, which is said to be the best in the world, and is all brought to England…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chrome Mining
Chrome raining, which had been discontinued for some time in the vicinity of Coolac, is again (says the Times) likely to form one of our sources of wealth. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Mining at Young
A syndicate of some 20 shares of £20 each, equivalent to cash, held by residents of Young and district, having leased the mining property at Wombat known as…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →District Mining Notes
THE residents of Barnawartha are still waiting to see if the Mines Department intend putting down any more bores across the Valley of the Indigo Creek,…
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