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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1899

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Buried Capital. Unclaimed Gold in the Mint.—a Romantic Story Just Told

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1899 · page 4

WE are often told of how much accumulated unclaimed cash is lying in the banks; we have even been told of how much is lying in a similar…

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Gold Product of W.a

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 3

The total gold production of West Australia to date is £2,692,800…

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Gold Output

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 January 1899 · page 2

The gold output of Victoria last year was 837,258 ounces…

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The Export of Gold

The Warialda Watchman · Thursday 12 January 1899 · page 4

JUST as all questions concerning the production of wealth can be referred in the last analysis to land, which is the scourse of all wealth, so all…

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Marian Gonisby. Original Novel. [All Rights Reserved.] Book I. CHAPTER I. How Gonisby Made His Gold

The Warialda Watchman · Thursday 12 January 1899 · page 1

FORTUNE-HUNTING is one of the keen businesses in Australian life. Perhaps the term fortune-hunting may with more force be applied to a generation that is passing…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 2

Mining at Swamp Oak is very dull. The company that was to make the place hum, has done a great deal of work and spent large sums of money,…

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Electricity in Mining

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 8

Australian mining men have been prejudiced against the use of electricity as motive power, principally because they have not seen it in use,…

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Hillgrove Mining. Hillgrove., January 9Th

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 6

Baker's Creek G. M Company's 40-stamper battery resumed crushing on Thursday and everything is running smoothly and well. Work…

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Miners' Wages

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

It is proposed to pay miners in the Lithgow district is 10d per hour instead of a rate per ton…

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Miners' Wages. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 5

IT is proposed to pay the miners of the Lithgow district 1s. 3d. per hour, instead of at a rate per ton…

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Export of Gold

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 January 1899 · page 2

The mail Steamer Moaua left for Sau Francisco yesterday with specie valued at nearly half a million sterling…

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Elsmore Valley Tin-mining Company

The Inverell Argus · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 2

On Tuesday last our representative paid a visit to the mine, and was somewhat suprised at the amount of population in close proximity to it. The mine manager, Mr. F. Thomas,…

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Original Novel. [All Rights Reserve.] Marian Gonisby. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. How Gonsiby Made His Gold

The Inverell Argus · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 6

FORTUNE HUTTING is one of the keen businesses in Australian life. Perhaps the term fortune hunting may with more force be applied to a generation that is passing…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 3

Mr. Louis Janin, who is returning to America from N.S.W. has been, interviewed by a " Herald " reporter. He does not speak highly of gold…

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Transvaal Gold Industry

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 3

The magnitude of the Transvaal gold-mining industry was emphasised by the figures presented at the annual gathering…

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Death of Richard Craven. a Mining Millionaire

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 3

There passed away at Waverley on Tuesday morning one of the richest men in Australia, in the person of Richard Craven, mineowner and…

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Tia Goldfield

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 3

Since my last last very little progress has been made with work in connection with the Record Mine, and in the opinion of many a radical change…

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Lithgow Miners' Pay. Sydney, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 5

ALL the miners of the Lithgow Valley Colliery Co. have accepted the offer of the owners to be paid by the hour instead of by weight…

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Stumbled Upon Cold Mines

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 January 1899 · page 2

Gold was discovered in California in 1848, and in Colorado in 1858. The discovery was accidental in both oases, and the fact created the impression that mines were…

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Official Notifications. (Gazette, Jan. 20.) Gold mining leases ready for delivery. —E. Davis and others, 224, p. Metz. (JAN. 21.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 3

Revocation of temporary reserves.—Land District of Armidale: Within Bouralong Holding, resumed area No. 393A. Part of reserve 8916 from…

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