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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

344 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 18

Gold Shell

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 20 August 1906 · page 4

An Messrs E. and R. Mcllirec's station. Stoney Park the beautiful brown station Gold Shell will, stand this season. He stands 16 hands high and…

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Mining News

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 August 1906 · page 2

At a meeting of directors of the Chiltern Jubilee Quartz Co., the application of Mr. G. R. Archer was accepted from a batch of 24 applicants for the…

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Miners' Wages

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 5

In accordance instructions, the Chiltern branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association took a ballot of the members of the branch in regard…

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Brains and Mine

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 6

The brain is a very mysterious organ, and much that p[?] tell us about "bumps" is without scientific warrant. Nevertheless, the tendency of science is to…

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Mining

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 3

I saw some nice stone taken from one of the leaders lately cut in the eastern crosscut at the Golden Bar Extended. The leader is four inches, and…

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Mining News

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 3

Golden Bar Extended.—For past week E. xcut driven 12ft.; total 148ft. Ground at present hard, bar sandstone underlaying W. Cut a leader at 140ft…

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Burning Mountains of Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 15

Through a long line of cliffs from Colorado to central Utah, and then south-west toword Arizona, extensive beds of coal are found, The coal formation of the…

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Latest Astounding Discovery. Coal as a Human Food

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 4

Coal is henceforth good food. Dr Emily Fischer, the winner of the Nobel prize in 1902, professor of chemistry in the University of Berlin, and…

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Correspondence. Is Dean-street Paved with Gold? (To the Editor)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 3

Sir,—On Wednesday last I saw the Council employes, with dust-pans and brooms, sweeping the centre of the road from the post-office to the…

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English Politics. the Eight Hours' Movement. "Coal-barons" Threat. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 August 1906 · page 2

The Northumberland Colliery-owners have informed the Miners' Association that if the Bill before Parliament, providing for an eight hours' day in…

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Copper Mines Collapse. Mortality Among Telephonists. President-elect's Wife Mutilated. People Utterly Miserable. Later

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 August 1906 · page 2

In striving to stop the fires which are still raging in Valparaiso, the dynamiting corps effected an unexpected release…

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A Threatened Coal-strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 August 1906 · page 3

At a conference of mine-owners, held yesterday at Newcastle, to consider the demand for increased pay on the part of the men, it was decided not to…

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Mining News

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 29 August 1906 · page 2

Robbie Burns, 25th.—Connected drive from No. 1 to No. 2 rises. Started to stope. Stone averaging 2ft., shows fine gold. Stone appears to be about…

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Queensland. the Mount Morgan Mine. August Dividend Threepence. Late "Mail" Wire. ROCKHAMPTON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 30 August 1906 · page 2

The Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company pays £12,500 on Saturday, being the August dividend at the rate of 3d. per share…

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N.S.W. Parliament. the New Mining Bill. Some Important Proposals. Late "Mail" Wire. SYDNEY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 30 August 1906 · page 3

In the Legislative Assembly to-night the Public Works and Closer Settlement Funds Bills, and the Banks and Bank-Holidays Further Amendment…

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Mining News

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 31 August 1906 · page 2

Chiltern Golden Bar Extd. G.M. Co.—During past week the castern leader has been driven on N. end 8ft., and S. end 8ft. stone taken down…

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Worn Gold Coin

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 August 1906 · page 4

In Melbourne, it has been discovered that two thirds of the half-sovereigns which are current are under the legal weight, having been worn so thin by…

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Gold From London Streets

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 August 1906 · page 1

The heading is strange, very strange; and yet there are gold mines in London -- in the dust-bins. So extraordinary is the fact, and so very interesting in view of the waste shown…

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Australian Gold in London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 2

Two men broke the window of the West End offices of the Orient Pacific Steamship Company (which are situated in Cocispur-street, S.W.) and stole…

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Chiltern. Mining News

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 3 September 1906 · page 3

The Golden Bar Extended have just put through, two tons, from the 4in, leader in the Eastern end, and the result is 5oz, 7dwt…

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