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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1898

220 stories in New England's papers · page 6 of 11

Coal Mines Will Close

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 3

A meeting of colliery proprietors was held yesterday to consider what action will be taken if the Minister for Mines enforces the weighing clause of the Coal Mines Regulation Act…

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Gold Mining Under Difficulties

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 7

A CANADIAN barrister, with a personal knowledge of the new gold field on the River Yukon, contributes to the CORN HILL MAGAZINE some details as to the…

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Grains of Gold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 7

HELP somebody worse off than yourself, and you will find that you are better off than you imagined. The fountain of beauty is the heart,…

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Bombarded With Gold. Extraordinary Experience at Sea

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 4

THE following strange story is going the rounds of the English press. It is told circumstantially by a South Sea Island trader in the following narrative:--…

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Traveller. Rich Goldfields

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 1

That there are rich goldfields on the Klondyke and Yukon has long been known, but the knowledge has been kept a secret by the officials of the Hudson Bay Trading…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 7 May 1898 · page 2
Also in The Armidale Chronicle

A correspondent states that at Uralla mining matters are beginning to assume a brighter aspect. Another discovery of gold was made at Crolty…

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Discovery of Coal in Ireland

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 7 May 1898 · page 3

An excellent coalfield has been discovered in the county of Antrim, in the north of Ireland. It is estimated that 2,500,000 tons of coal are…

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The Premier Tin Mine of The World

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 7 May 1898 · page 6

According to a statement published in the Melbourne Argus, the Mount Bischaff, in Tasmania, is the premier tin-mine, of the world, and when the…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 7 May 1898 · page 3

The North Boulder, input for the past fortnight was 341 tons of stone, yielding 324oz. of smelted gold. The Great Boulder Main Reef output for…

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America & Spain. Coal for the Squadron. Attack on Cuba. After Tub Battle. Feeling in Spain. a Ssain [?]Amer Captured. English Yachts Mobbed Scrne in the Ortes British Warships for Manila. the Firing of Manila. -Surrender of Anila. [?]Asm in America. Reinforcements or the Iphillippines Paniards in America Rear Admiral Dewary Promoted. Arms and Ammunition Seized. Russian Activity

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 7 May 1898 · page 6

The naval authorities at San Francisce have been ordered to [?] two of the largest and swiftest ships [?] with [?] of coal for…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 14 May 1898 · page 2

The Highland Mary main shaft is now over 300 feet deep. The battery has been removed and is now situated on the mine property…

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The Klondyke Rush--and Other Ways of Finding Gold

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 May 1898 · page 2

THE world, as everybody knows, is now. busy talking of what threatens to eclipse any rush for gold known in history, even many Australians have taken a practical interest in the rush and left us…

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Mining in New England. Hillgrove Crushings

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 May 1898 · page 4

Bsker's Creek.—516 tone for 362oz 5dwte. emelted gold. Eleanore.—139oz, 6dut, emelted gold. The Dumber of tone is not…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 3

The new stampers were tried at the Cells diggings on Saturday last by Mr. Simeon, the manager, and Worked well (says the "Manning Times.") A…

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The Monthly Gold Returns

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 2

Monthly returns of the gold yield of New Booth Wales are now being prepared by the Mines Department. From the first return that has been…

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Mining Difficulties at Klondike

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 4

A Canadian barrister, with a personal knowledge of the goldfleld on the River Yukon, contributes to a London magazine some details as to…

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Fire in a Prussian Mine. Great Loss of Life

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 May 1898 · page 2

A fire in the Zollun mine, at Dortmund, in Prussia, killed-forty-five miners…

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The Extraction of Gold

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 27 May 1898 · page 4

EDISON is about to close a remarkable deal, by which he expects to net 1,500,000dol. (£300,000). The Ortiz land grant, one of the old Mexican land grants near Santa Fe N. M., covers 10 miles square…

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Sauce Batter than a Gold Mine

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 3

It is better to invent a sauce or a pin than to find a gold mine. The personalty of the late Mr. Wheeby Lea, of Lea and Perrin's sauce fame,…

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