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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1904

269 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 14

A Gold Mine Waiting for Somebody

Guyra Argus · Thursday 9 June 1904 · page 5

The most crying need of to-day is a substitute for Para rubber. It is certain to be discovered sooner or later. Celluloid and oxidised linseed oil are useful for some…

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Wollongong Coal

The Uralla News · Friday 10 June 1904 · page 2

At a meeting held at Wollongong it was asserted that coal, on the catchment area, to the value of £508,000,000 was locked up, and that…

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Mining

The Uralla News · Friday 10 June 1904 · page 3

ON 30th May, George Morris made application for land to construct a water race, four heads of water, to be divered from the left bank of…

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Mining

The Inverell Times · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 3
Also in The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record

Mr. P. Smith, manager of the stock and station business of the Hodgson Pastoral Association, Port Darwin district, was a passenger by the Tainan,…

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With Key of Gold

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 5

EARLY in May a brief cable announced that by pressing a golden key in the White House at Washington, President Rooseveldt had officially opened the great World's Fair at St…

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Mining

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 15 June 1904 · page 3

The Guyra ADVOCATE says:— A 14 horse power engine arrived at the local station or Saturday last for Mr. G. Wilberforce s new dredge at Backwater. The engine left…

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T E L E G R a M S. SYDNEY, Tuesday. N.S.W. RAILWAYS. Fresh Coal Contracts

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 15 June 1904 · page 4

The railway Commissioners have accepted various contracts for the supply of 380,000 tons of coal at from 4s 6d to 8s 6d per ton, according to…

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Lucky Gold Find

The Uralla News · Friday 17 June 1904 · page 2

The Mining Registrar at Wattle Flat, four miles from Sofala, has telegraphed to the Minister for Mines, that a man and his son yesterday…

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Arsenic and Gold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 June 1904 · page 7

By a singular change of circumstances the gold-miners of Hustings Country. Ontario Canada who for years were ballled in trying to…

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Rich Gold Find. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 June 1904 · page 5

THE Mining Registrar at Wattle Flat, four miles from Sofala telegraphed to the Minister for Mines that a man and his sons yesterday obtained 221bs…

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Mining

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 18 June 1904 · page 2

Excitement prevails at Inverell over the discovery of a diamond pipe, or blue ground, at Cakey Creek, near Copeton. This has been looked for…

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Ascot Gold Cup

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 June 1904 · page 4

The Ascot Gold Cup was won by Throwaday, Zinfandel being second, and Sceptre third…

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Humors of a Flat. the Coal Boy

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1904 · page 3

If you are a flat-dweller and are annoyed by a dirty little boy who takes you up in the lift at the same time he takes the coals, and if you suffer other more or…

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The Ladies' Column. for Mine and Thine. Ecgenie C. Dolson

The Inverell Times · Saturday 18 June 1904 · page 3

At evening, in our dear old bome, We plan together, you and I, As hopefully for years to come As in the days gone by…

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Port Darwin Tin Mines

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1904 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Port Darwin on Saturday reports that there is considerable nativity locally on the recently discovered in field near Palmerston. On the opposite side of the harbor, several…

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Where the Gold Goes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1904 · page 2

It is almost incredible, but a foot all tho same, that this year so far the export of gold from Australia has totalled £0,015,000, equal to £0 per average family. The Commonwealth borrows her…

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Mining Fatality

The Uralla News · Friday 24 June 1904 · page 2

Two men, both of whom were married, were killed yesterday in a mine at Charters Towers by a fall of earth. A third man present was uninjured…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1904 · page 2

Two men, both of whom were married and had families, wore killed yesterday in a mine at Charters Towers by a fall of earth. A third man was injured…

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Mining Fatality. Charters Towers (Q.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1904 · page 5

Two men, both of them married, with large families, were killed yesterday by a fall of earth in a Charters Towers mine. A third man who was with them was not injured…

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