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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

344 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 18

Chiltern Miners' Cricket Club

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 2

A general meeting of this club was held last night to wind up the affairs of the season. The accounts of the euchre party were passed for payment…

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Mining at Rutherglen. the Field's Development

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 5

A report on the Rutherglen mining field has been furnished to the Minister for Mines by the geological director (Mr. E. J. Dunn). In his…

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Eight Hours for Miners

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 May 1906 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon Mr. Brunner's Bill for reducing the hours of labour in coal mines to eight hours by the year 1909, and read a second time…

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The Colour of Gold

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 May 1906 · page 4

The idea that gold varies somewhat in colour, according to the locality in which it is found is widely prevalent even among miners and…

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Robbing a Mine. £2000 Taken

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 May 1906 · page 3

A sensational report of gold comes from the Golden Pole mine. For some time pass there has been, after allowing for gold left in the tailings…

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Gold From River Gravel

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 May 1906 · page 2

Messrs. D. Oswald and A. Cunningham have commenced to test the river gravel near Mooratunka for gold deposits. They have begun the search…

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Painless Dentistry Without Gas. Chiltern Miners Cricket Club

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 May 1906 · page 4

By an invention of Dr. Crittenden Van Wyck, all dental work, such as drilling into a tooth to remove decay and prepare it for a filling, or…

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Rich Find of Gold

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 May 1906 · page 2

An extraordinary find of gold is reported from Drake, in the Tenterfield district, 314 miles north of Sydney. The proprietors of the Tributers'…

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New South Wales. Rating of Coal Junes. Action of the Conference. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 May 1906 · page 2

The Conference on the Assessment of Mines, was resumed to-day. Mr. Kirk moved, that the basis of the assessment of coal mines should be on the…

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Mining News

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 May 1906 · page 3

Bobbie Burns.—No. 2 rise total 28 it.; in slate intermixed with quartz leaders. Gold colours gold in borings. Stope off winze 18inf formation; 4in…

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Coal-Miners' Hours. Bill for Reducing. London, May 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 26

Sir John Brunner, Liberal member for the Northwich Division of Cheshire, recently introduced into Parliament a bill to provide for the gradual' reduction of…

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The Tin Boom. Old Mines Reopened

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 2

The excitement caused by the enormous increase in the price of tin continues. Many old tin mines in Cornwall that have been abandoned for…

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To Encourage Tin-mining

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 2

In giving it as his opinion to-day that places in Victoria, where tin deposits were known to exist, should be prospected, the Government Director…

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West Australia. (Continued.) MINING

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 25

The Kalgoorlie gold-bearing rocks are of a yellowish friable nature down to 100ft. or, more in the most parts of the district. Deeper they become a dark grey or…

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Rambles in Riverina. the Colour of Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 21

A party of three are prospecting, not yet too deep, into Coolamon's earth's bowels for golds They have a reef, with just the "colour" to date, but hope for something…

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Poetry. a Clint of Gold

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 1

U[?]MINDFUL of the wintry cold, The snowdrops peep above the mouid, And show an inner glint of gold , To eyes that care to see…

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The Sydney Collieries. Strike Another Seam

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 23 May 1906 · page 3

The second deep shaft which has been sunk by the Sydney Collieries Co. Ltd. at Balmain (the first being situated at Pyrmont, opposite), bottomed last…

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Gold Bar Extended. Interesting Development

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 23 May 1906 · page 3

Gold wad struck in the Chiltern Golden Bar Extended mine yesterday in the crosscut put in at the 400ft. level, 108 ft. from the shaft. The lode is 2ft…

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Eskdale. Splendid Gold Yield

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 23 May 1906 · page 2

A very rich crushing was put through here last week by Brooks' Bros and Up ton. They crushed 16 tons of stone for the handsome yield of 175 ozs of…

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South Australian Copper Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 29

An Adelaide correspondent writes:— A large number of copper claims have been taken up in the north and north-east, but in consequence of the drought miners were…

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