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Mining & the mines, 1902

275 stories in New England's papers · page 6 of 14

Mines Under the Ocean

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1902 · page 5

The Chillan coal mines, opened in 1855, seem to be quite pleasant places to work in. The seam of coal runs from the coast line under the waters of the Pacific Ocean, and…

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Mining on Mount Sinai

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 18 June 1902 · page 2

Report credits Mr. Alfred Morning, a miner, who has had a successful career in South Africa, with the purchase of Mount Sinai, on which the…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 21 June 1902 · page 2

The Esbank Ironworks, Lithgow, will be taken over by a British company. 3,000 men are promised employment within two or three years…

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The Power of Coal

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1902 · page 8

A pound of what we will call average C[?] would be somewhat smaller in size than a man's fist. A pound of this coal, if expended in mechanical work, would give us…

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Tin-mining

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 June 1902 · page 2

THE logic of [?] deduction explained some time since that the eastern range between the Beardy and Mann rivers is the source of wealthy stanniferous deposits is being illustrated, in a manner…

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Mining Plant

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 June 1902 · page 2

WE have to direct the attention of persons interested to an advertisement appearing elsewhere regarding an important sale of first-class mining machinery, to be conducted by Mr. S. C. Smith at…

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Howell Mining. (To the Editor of the Argus.)

The Inverell Argus · Tuesday 1 July 1902 · page 2

Sir,—I notice in the DAILY TELEGRAPH dated 27th, mining news from an Inverell correspondent which is almost an exact copy of a report sent by me to you. As I have…

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Mining News

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 2 July 1902 · page 4

Cope's Crook Co's. dredge is now averaging 3 tons of tin weekly. Owing to the scarcity of water the Leviathan lin Lode Co has had to stop crushing…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 5 July 1902 · page 2

The Europambela Copper Mining Co., it is said, intend to erect machinery on the mine, which is still very promising. Another Newcastle party have…

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Mining Development

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 July 1902 · page 5

A Glasgow capitalist, now in Brisbane, is arranging, on behalf of a Scottish syndicate, to expend £100,000 on deep sinking in Gympie…

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Local Mining

The Inverell Argus · Tuesday 8 July 1902 · page 2

THE crisis that apparently has been reached by the King Conrad Silver Mining Co. is an unlooked-for one, and it would be difficult to locate its…

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Strike of Coal Miners

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 July 1902 · page 4

A strike has occurred at the Outtrim Howitt coal mine, Victoria, by which 700 men and boys have been rendered idle…

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Miners' Strike

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 9 July 1902 · page 3

By a strike in the Outtrim-Howitt coal mine, Victoria, seven hundred men and boys have been rendered idle…

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The Starlight Mine. District Court Appeal. Decision Delivered

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 July 1902 · page 4

His Honor Judge Heydon delivered judgment in the mining appeal affecting the ownership of the above-mentioned property, heard at the…

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Purchase of Coal Mines. New Zealand

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 July 1902 · page 5

THE snm of £81,500 has been placed on the estimates of the New Zealand Government for the purchase of State coal mines…

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Strike at a Colliery

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 4

The strike at the Outrim Colliery, Victoria, coutinues. The strikers wrecked a house in which a non-unionist was sheltered,…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 3

A goldfind has been reported near Gundagai, the yield being estimated at 3oz. per ton…

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Mining Cases

The Inverell Times · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 4

At the last meeting of the Warden's Court held at Tinghs, before Mr. Walter-us Brown, Mining Warden, Frederick J. Peel proceeded against the King Conrad…

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Australian Opal and Opal Mining

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 16 July 1902 · page 2

Considerable quantities of opal arc found in Queensland and New South Wales. In the latter State the commoner kinds are found in many…

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Mining

The Inverell Argus · Friday 18 July 1902 · page 2

At the Newstead Deep Lead Co's Tin Mine great progress is being made with the work of sinking. It is intended to sink the old shaft 80ft., and half that distance has…

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