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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

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

Sensational Shipping Disaster. Petroleum Explodes. Coal-laden Trucks Ignite. Explosion Heard for Miles. Seven Lives Lost

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 3

A sensational shipping disaster occurred at Marseilles yesterday. An Italian vessel, laden with 7000 borrels of petrolcum, through some…

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A Swindling Mining Secretary. the Rowe Case. Great Fingall W.a. Gets Ten Year's Gaol

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 3

The trial took place yesterday of A. S. Rowe, the late secretary of the Great Fingall Consolidated, Limited, who when charged in January last…

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The Test Match Tropilies. Gold Cup to Be Field by Winners

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 December 1903 · page 2

It has been proposed in cricketing circles in Sydney that a gold cup be awarded for the winners of the test matches, the cup to be hold by the…

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The La Mascotte Mine

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 23 December 1903 · page 3

Considerable surprise and satisfaction have been expressed in Albury and Wodonga at the splendid prospects of the La Mascotte mine, situated at Dark…

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Mining at Black Range

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 24 December 1903 · page 2

The stone taken from the roof in the No.2 shaft of the May Day Mine is improving,and the prospectors are opening up the roof for some distance…

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Our Oceans are Vast Gold Mines

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 December 1903 · page 1

In their sixty-five quintillions of cubic feet of water are restlessly lossing about seventy-five billion tons of gold; enough to give every person on earth £676,480. Were…

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Famous Salt Mines

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 December 1903 · page 2

The salt mines of Wiellezka, seven miles, south-cast of Cracow; Poland, have been worked since the early part of the eleventh century. They extend over a space of about…

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The Gold Yield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 December 1903 · page 29

The gold yield of Australia for the first 11 months of the year is estimated to be approximately 3,500,000 ounces fine. The yield for the whole year will probably total…

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Gold Storage on the Farm

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 December 1903 · page 12

The problem of cold storage may be discussed from some few standpoints, but above all the most important seems to be the commercial producer who grows and sells…

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China Seizes Coal Mines Near Kaiping. Russia Supposed to Be the Instigator. How the Engineering and Mining Company Will Fare. China Will Countenance Any Illegality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 28 December 1903 · page 3

Further particulars are to hand concerning the seizure by China of the rich coal mines near K[?]iping, on the ground that the Chinese Engineering…

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Mining Reports

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 30 December 1903 · page 2

The New Barambogle had a return of 54oz 2dwt for five days' work. The ground operated upon was quite up to recent fair average. At the…

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