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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

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Marvellous Gold at Chiltern. Chiltern

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 September 1905 · page 3

Great excitement was caused here when it because known that some splendid gold was obtained at the Magenta mine. The reef is a foot…

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Safety of the Transvaal Mines London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 28 September 1905 · page 2

Public attention in the transv[?] has to lately been attracted in the question of the safety of miners travelling in the [?] of many of the mines. A…

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Ventilation of mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 September 1905 · page 29

An important judgment was delivered in Sydney on Friday by the Full Court as to the ventilation, of coal mines in a case Watson v. Broughall. The defendant…

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Colour of Gold

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 2

Few people know the real colour of gold, because it [?] seldom seen except when heavily alloyed, which makes it much redder than when it is pare The purest…

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Gold Return

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 4 October 1905 · page 3

The quantity of gold received at the Melbourne Miat during the month of September amounted to 121,456 ozx 3dwts 7 grs…

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Balmain Coal Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 5 October 1905 · page 2

The sinkers at the Balmain coal mine to-day struck work owing to the management having declined to concede shorter hours of labor…

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A Rutherglen Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 28

What serious loss may be caused to a district by the closing of a big mine was demonstrated by the figures quoted by the chairman of the Great Southern No. 1…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. Coal Strike at Balmain

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 2

A free laborer, who has been working at the Balmain coal mine, was to-day severely assaulted by the strikers. The police are now in…

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Geological Report on Chiltern Mines

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 October 1905 · page 2

The Geological Director, Mr E. J. Dunn, has prepared a report upon the Golden Bar and other mines at Chiltern. He says that a characteristic…

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Chiltern Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 29

The Geological Director, Mr. E. J. Dunn, has prepared a report upon tho Golden Bar and other mines at Chiltern. He says that a characteristic of the Gulden Bar mine is that thin,…

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World's Deepest Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 29

Reports of a reassuring nature continue to come from the Victoria Quartz Mine, Bendigo, Victor, a (writes a correspondent), which is the rival of the New…

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The Balmain Coal Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 2

Six men were to-day charged at the police court for assaulting free laborers who were working at the Sydney Harbor Collieries shaft at Balmain at which…

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Mining Bill. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 24

Questions were asked in the Legislative Council this evening regarding the imprisonment of a female child, 11 years of age, for stone-throwing…

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Mine Explosion at Sea. Another Vessel Wrecked

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 2

A few days ago it was reported that the steamer [?]sleho, 1698 tons, owned by the China Steam Navigation Company, had struck a floating…

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Marvellous Gold at Children. 74 0Zs. of Gold From 2 Tons. Chiltern

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 19 October 1905 · page 2

Mr Geo. Archer, who is proprietor of the Magenta Mine here, has just completed a crushing of two tons of the rich stone recently struck in the shaft…

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Sporting. Sports. Chiltern Miners' Sports

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 October 1905 · page 4

A notification appears elsewhere concerning the Chiltern Miner's Sports which are to be held on November 9 Nominations for the Shefield and…

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Stolen Gold and Silver Plate the Receivers Arrested

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 October 1905 · page 2

The police have arrested the two principal partners of a firm occupying premisea in Goswell-street E.C., on a charge of buying gold and silver…

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Children Valley Gold Mines

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 October 1905 · page 3

The profit made by the Children Valley Gold Mines during the six months [?] October 11 from the No. 2 shaft was £[?] This with the amount brought…

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Chiltern Mining

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 October 1905 · page 2

Mr. George Archer who is working a reef 120 ft east of the Magenta cutting, has crushed two tons of stone for the rich yield of 71oz…

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Mining Market. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 25 October 1905 · page 2

Children Valley, [?] 40/. Children Valley Consols, [?] 4/7. Granya, [?] 4/ [?] 4/10. Great Southern, [?] 20/6, Great Southern Consols, [?] 8/. Prontice…

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