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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

144 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 8

The Lagoon Hill Goldfield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 25

From Tumbarumba to Adelong is through rough, mountainous, scrubby country, coated here and there with great belts of basalt. The traveller, taking a bush track round the eastern…

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Large Shipment of Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 39

The R.M.S. Sierra, which left Sydney for San Francisco Tuesday, took 100 boxes of gold, valued at £500,000, of which £50,000 was shipped by the Bank of Australasia, £50,000 by the…

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The Mining Law

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 28

A deputation of the New South Wales Chamber of Mines, introduced by Mr. Harrie Wood, in the absence of Sir George Dibbs, waited on the Minister for Mines on Friday, and urged the…

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Gold Jubilee Exhibition. Opening Day, November 13

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Thursday 12 September 1901 · page 3

A meeting of the executive Committee of the Victorian Gold Jubilee Exhibition was held at Bendigo on Monday night, when reports received…

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General News. Bendigo Gold Miners Searched

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Monday 16 September 1901 · page 4

—On Tuesday last four men from the Clarence United mine were searched as they were leaving the mine but no gold was found on tlieui. It appears…

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Sensational Gold Robberies. a Gippsland Mine Raid

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 15

An outrage by masked and armed men was reported on Sunday afternoon by a letter from Mr. Fraser, manager of the Beehive Gold Mining Company's battery at…

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Mine Own Work

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 1

I made the cross myself whose weight Was later laid on me ; This thought is torture as I toil Up life’s steep Calvary…

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Colliery Disaster. Fifteen Miners Entombed. London, October 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1901 · page 21

A serious disaster has occurred in a coal mine at Vancouver Island. A fire broke out in the colliery when 15 miners were below, and every means of escape for the fortunate…

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Adelong Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1901 · page 29

Mr W. H. J. Slee, Chief Inspector of Mines has been on a visit, to Adelong, and has inspected many of the mines. He also, inspected the Camp Reef Syndicates tunnel, with a view…

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Miners' Incomes in Germany

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1901 · page 35

German miners are not nearly so well paid as their English brethren. The total number of miners employed in Germany is 447,687 an increase of 38,000 over the figures for the…

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Shocking Mine Fatality. Peculiar Clairvoyant Warning

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 October 1901 · page 25

A fatal ruining accident occurred at the Chiltern Valley Gold Mining Company's No. 2 shaft on Monday morning. It appears that the regular pitman, Harry Cooper, was off duty, owing…

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Mining Fatality at Chiltern

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 October 1901 · page 2

A FATAL mining accident occurred at the Chiltern Valley Gold Mining Company's No. 2 shaft on Monday morning. It appears that the regular pitman, Harry…

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The Mining Industry in New South Wales

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 October 1901 · page 4

THE Australian Mining Standard judges of the capacity of Australian statesmen by the value which they set on the mineral resources of their several States. The…

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Coal Consumption

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 October 1901 · page 29

It is gleaned from a return placed before the members of the Legislative Assembly by the Treasurer that during the year 1899 the amount of coal consumed on the Government…

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Traveller the Gold Finds in Scotland

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 October 1901 · page 1

IT ought to be more generally known than it is, that Scotland occupies a respectable position in the list of gold-producing countries ; we should…

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Traveller. the Gold Finds in Scotland

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Monday 21 October 1901 · page 2

IT ought to be more generally known that it is, that Scotland occupies a respectable position in the list of gold-producing countries: we should…

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New Mount Hope Copper Mining Coy., Ltd

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 October 1901 · page 2

The following is a copy of the mine manager's progress report for the fortnight ending 12th October, 1902, received by Mr. R. N. Kirk:—The Mine.—Lode in the 150 feet…

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French Mining Trouble

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 23 October 1901 · page 2

Two cases of rifles addressed to the miners at Mont[?]aux have been seized by the French authorities. The miners threaten to strike unless their demands…

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Waste in the Mining of Coal

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 October 1901 · page 1

It has been estimated that during the last fifty years not more than 80 per cent of the coal in the measures mined has reached the place of consumption. Much…

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Miners' Wages in Germany

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 October 1901 · page 1

German miners are not nearly so well paid as their English brethren. The total number of miners employed in Germany is 447,687, an increase of 38,000 over the figures for the…

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