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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

275 stories in New England's papers · page 9 of 14

Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 16 August 1902 · page 3

Recent discoveries show an extension of the Witswa[?]ersrand Reef 30 miles eastward of Johannesburg. Mobybdenite has been discovered…

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Mining Meetings

The Inverell Times · Saturday 16 August 1902 · page 4

The shareholders in Cope's Creek Proprietary held their annual meeting on Wednesday afternoon last in the offices of the legal manager, Mr. C. G…

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Tin-mining

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 August 1902 · page 2

THE industry of tin-mining in the district has not had much to recommend it of late years in a general sense. One great…

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Forging Mining Scrip

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 19 August 1902 · page 2

About L2000 have been obtained by forging the mining scrip of two Bendigo mines. The frauds have been traced to Sydney, and are attributed to one…

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A Bird Worth its Weight in Gold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 August 1902 · page 3

IT is not as pretty a bird as yoU Will see in any cage at a poultry show, nor is the egg any more extraordinary in the picture than…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 23 August 1902 · page 2

Seeman and party, while prospecting in the vicinity of the Mountain Maid mine, Copeland, discovered a rich surface reef. A part of it was…

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Mining Progress Association

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 August 1902 · page 2

IN this age of progress, and when organisation is playing a very important part--politically and…

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Under-Secretary for Mines. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 August 1902 · page 5

THE Premier, when asked to-day if the rumour that Mr. Fegan, M.P., is to be appointed as Under-Secretary for Mines, said that he was tired of…

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Miners' Strike. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 5

OWING to the strike of miners the directors of the Stonely Coal and Iron Company have given the whole of the 10,000 employees a week's notice…

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Oil as a Substitute for Coal

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 7

MR. W. MOORE, British Yice-Consul, in a report on the trade of San Francisco lest year says: The most important feature of the year was…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 2

Mr. Condon, the sub-manager of the Brown's Paddock Extended Mine, Uralla, was killed on Wednesday night, last week. He had been…

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Our Coal Industry

The Inverell Times · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 2

Newcastle, in New South Wales, unlike many Australian places on which English names have been bestowed, is most appropriately…

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Coal-miners' Strike

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 September 1902 · page 5

The coal-miners' strike at Pennsylvania continues. Outrages are of daily occurrence The troops were compelled to fire on the strikers…

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Mount Kembla Colliery

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 September 1902 · page 5

The main tunnel of the month of Mount Kembla Colliery completely collapsed last night, disloding thousands of tons of earth, and boolking…

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Mining News

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 3 September 1902 · page 4

Writing of the mining operations about The Ponds and Stannifer our correspondent says:—"The rain has started the washing-up…

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Collieries on Fire. LONDON

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

STRIKERS at Pocahontas, Virginia, set fire to the collieries, which are furiously burning. The guards of the mines and the strikers exchanged rifle-volleys…

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Mount Kembla Mine. WOLLONGONG

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

IN a test of a sample of coal dust obtained from the Mount Kembla Mine it was found to be highly explosive…

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Bags of Gold Shipped As Luggage

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1902 · page 4

WILKS JACOB WILKENS, master of the s.s. Batavia, was in London recently, fined £5 and £3 3s costs, for contravening the Revenue Act by not delivering a proper and…

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Bags of Gold Shipped as Personal Luggage

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1902 · page 2

WILKS JACOB WILKENS, master of the s.s. Batavia, was in London recently fined £5 and £3 3s. costs for contravening the Revenue Act by not…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 2

The recent 16 tons of stone sent from the Europambela Copper Mine to Newcastle for treatment yielded 10 per cent of copper and 4 dwts of gold…

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