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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

221 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 12

The Care of Gold Fish

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 July 1902 · page 3

A little aquarium of goldfish is almost as common a sight in a home as a canary bird, and a few points as to their care may prove of benefit to those having them. The…

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Corowa Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 July 1902 · page 3

A general meeting of shareholders in the Corowa Deep Lead Extended Co. Ltd., is advertised to be held at the registered office to-morrow…

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Australian Opal and Opal Mining

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 23 July 1902 · page 2

Considerable quantities of opal are found in Queensland and New South Wales. In the latter State the commoner kinds are found in many…

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Gold Mines in Rubbish Heaps

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 July 1902 · page 37

The miraculous manner in which the rubbish of London disappears is often a source of mystery to many people, who are ignorant of the fact that there is a gold…

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Mining at Wyalong

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 July 1902 · page 39

A report from Wyalong says:-The monthly escort took away 1450oz gold. A development of an important character has taken place at the Lucknow Extended. The…

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Mining Near Gundagai

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 July 1902 · page 37

The Cootamundra Herald reports :-In connection with the alluvial lead at Mingay, nine miles from Gundagai, there are three claims on gold, namely, Tremain and party, Morley and…

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Corowa Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 July 1902 · page 2

A washing-up of 6 fathoms at the Corowa Deep Lead through the week gave a return of 7oz. 16dwts. of coarse gold. Another cleaning-up…

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Geological Survey Department of Mines and Agriculture. May 26th, 1902

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 July 1902 · page 36

SlB,-I have the honour to report that in accordance with your instructions I visited Tooma Station, and inspected the narrow alluvial flats extending along the lower reaches of the…

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Local Self-government. "Australian Mining Standard."

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 July 1902 · page 4

The good people of New South Wales who are being victimised by gross extravagance and scarcely disguised partiality and unfairness in…

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Corowa Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 3

The mining manager reports:--Cross cuts have been opened east and west from the north drive. The east crosscut is now in 26 feet, which has pro-pecial…

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The Rand Mines. London, July 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 26

Advices from South Africa states that hundreds of ex-members of irregular corps that since the close of the war have been disbanded are unemployed in…

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Intercolonial Items. Mining at Lithgow

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 28

Considerable excitement has been created in the south-western portion of the Lithgow district, and even in the town itself, owing to the discovery of a…

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Terrible Colliery Fatality. At Mount Kembla. Large Loss of Life. Sydney, Thursday, 4.6 p.m

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 2

News has been received of a terrible colliery explosion at Mount Kembla, near Wollongong. All the available doctors have been sent for. No further particulars are as…

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Latest by Telegraph [From the N.S.W. Newspaper Press-agency.] Awful Colliery Accident in New South Wales. a Terrible Explosion at Woollongong. 300 Miners Entombed. Three Bodies Recovered. a Surface Hand Killed and Several Injured. Parliament Adjourns. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 2

A dreadful calamity happened to-day at the Mount Kembla coal mine, Wollongong, whereby 300 miners are entombed. Later…

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Sydney. Friday. the Mine Disastee

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

Owing to the remoteness of the district from means of communication and the difficulty experienced by the search parties on account of the after damp, very little additional…

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The Colliery Disaster

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Monday 4 August 1902 · page 2

The most disastrous colliery accident that has ever occurred in the Commonwealth took place at the Mount Kembla mine, situated about…

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Mines Department Report

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 August 1902 · page 2

The report of the Mines Department for 1901, which has just been presented to Parliament, is necessarlly, to a large extent, ancient…

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The Colliery Fatality. Further Particulars. Relief Funds Started. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 August 1902 · page 1

Search parties are still working heroically, at Mount Kembla, though there is not the remotest chance of any of the entombed men being rescued alive…

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The Colliery Explosion. The Victims Estimated to Total Eighty-Six. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 August 1902 · page 3

The latest information from the pit at Mount Kembla is to the effect that the total loss of life by Thursday's disaster will be about 86. Of this number 82 bodies have…

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The Mine Explosion Sydney

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 6 August 1902 · page 2

It is officially reported that eighty-seven deaths resulted from, the Mount Kembla disaster. A few more bodies are yet to be…

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