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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1898

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Manufacturing Gold

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 6

The following striking article is from The Mining Industry mid Review, published in Denver, Colorado (U.S.):…

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Mining Notes

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 4

We have been knocking down our dust at races and pigeon shooting. The Warden intends Visiting Rockvale, Kilcoy, and other places on the…

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The Miner. News from Everywhere. GOLD

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 6

The output [?]re at the Yalgeg[?]n field during 1897 announted to 539 tons. which yie[?]d 16.1 cz. by [?] treatment [?]…

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N.s.w. Mining Companies

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 5

New South Wales Mining Companies having head offices in London have resolved to support the Sidney Chamber of Mines in demanding an…

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Mining in New England. Terasse Gully

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 4

The reef discovered on the bill overlooking TerasSe Gully, on the road to Puddledock, and about nine miles from Armidale promises to be a…

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A Clergyman on Mining. the Noblest Wealth of All

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 2

Robert McIntyre, a Methodist minister of Chicago, has stirred some of his brethren because he grub- staked a…

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Gold from Tailings

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1898 · page 2

THE inventive faculties of our friends in Victoria are frequently in evidence, and to their ingenuity is due many an important mechanical discovery. Thus we learn that…

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Mining in New England. Hillgrove. Crushings

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 February 1898 · page 2

Baker's Creek G M. Co.—516 tons for a yield of £321ozs 15dwts smelted gold. Sunlight G.M. Co.—389 tons for…

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Auckland. Storing Coal

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 3

The Westport Coal Company of New Zealand has been notified by the Admiralty of their intention to store Westport coal in Sydney for certain purposes…

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Sunnyside Gold Mine, Near Mt. Sherwood

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 5

It is now about ten years since this reef, or lode, was first found by an old miner named Butler. It occurs in soft slate formation, and is in close…

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Mining in New England. Boggy Camp

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 5

The basalt run of diamondiferous country that has been pertly prospected extends from the Long Arm down through Boggy Camp. A…

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Mr. Taylor in Reply Department of Mines and Agriculture, Metallargical Branch, Clyde, Nov. 1,1897

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 6

SIR,—I have the honor to submit the following in reply to your favor of the 18th last., and in doing so I will ask you to kindly excuse the…

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West Australian Goldfields. New Alluvial Regulations. Great Boulder Returns

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 6

The amendment of the mining regulations, prohibiting alluvial mining to a greater depth than 10 feet on leases is still, the absorbing question of…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 2

A Nerrigundah miner who hod been working his claim for a long time, and some months ago offered it in vain to anyone who would give him 10s a…

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The Miner. News from Everywhere. GOLD

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 6

A large quantity of ore is awaiting treatment at the Glen [?], Glen [?], A parrel of 10 tons will be sent to D[?] very shortly. The…

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Mining In New England. Swamp Oak

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 4

Mining here is going along steadily at present. The company that have the Jersy mine have nearly completed the cutting down and timbering…

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Klondyke. Gold Under Ice

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 February 1898 · page 2

WRITING from Victoria, B.C., a correspondent says :--Having Come in contact with several who have been for some little time on the new diggings, it may not come amiss, perhaps to give a brief…

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Gold in Ducks Gizzards

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 3

A Sydney paper states : Mr. T. Ellery, of 452 Oxford-st., Paddington, poulterer, while dressing some ducks opened…

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The Miner. News from Everywhere. GOLD

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 6

The last crushing of the [?] Charters Towers (Q). was 2780oz. gold from 3143 tons stone. The last yield of Brilliant and St…

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Latest Up to Publication. Sydney, Monday, 4.31 p.m. Mining Fatality

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1898 · page 3

A serious mining accident happened at the British Mine at Broken Hill this morning through a fall of sulphides, weighing between 30 and 40 tons. Three miners, named J…

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