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Mining & the mines, 1905

273 stories in New England's papers · page 14 of 14

Colliery Explosion

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1905 · page 2

A colliery explosion occurred whilst blasting operations were being carried out at Wyoming (United States), at a depth of 4000 feet. Twenty one miners were killed…

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Mining Fatality. LONDON, Sunday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1905 · page 5

WHILST blasting at a depth of 40000ft in a colbery at Wyoming (U.S.), 21 miners were killed and 40 others entombed, as the result of an explosion…

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Mining

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 6 December 1905 · page 2

In the year 1859 the known gold production of the Rocky River field was 50,050 ozs. for one month, valued at £200,000 all of which went among…

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Gold Yield

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1905 · page 4

The gold yield of this State for the past 11 months is valued at £1,057,000, as compared with £1,024,700 for the corresponding period of last year…

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Wonderful Coal Cutting Machine

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1905 · page 7

A new coal-outting machine is creating much interest among minors. It weighs 150 pounds, is worked by compressed sir and is said to be wonderfully successful in…

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Gold Yield. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1905 · page 5

THE gold yield of this State for the past 11 months is valued at £1,027,000, as compared with £1,024,000 during the corresponding period of 1904…

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Mining. Geacie Gold-mixing Co. (N.l.)

The Uralla News · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 2

The following has been kindly ban[?] to as by Mr. T. Snow manager of the above mine, for publication:— The crosseut is now driven 34[?]., [?]…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 2

Mr T. H. Barbour was in Walcha during the week with a nice sample of retorted gold obtained at his chlorination works, Nisngla. It weighed 22oz 1½dwts, and was won from…

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In the Armchair. Songs That Are Gold Mines

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 4

Talk about gold mines, said a leading music publisher; why, I can assure you there are scores of gold mines floated on a capital running into six figures…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 2

The Swamp Oak battery engine is being removed for the purpose of driving a sawmill close by. Bad news for the prospectors, as there is not an available engine to take…

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The Coal Contract

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1905 · page 2

The evidence taken by the Coal Commission is bewildering. The Railway Commissioners, who take something like 200,000 tons a year of…

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The Rose of Touloume. (Original.) a Story of Coincidences Or, Christmas Happenings on a Gold-field. an Australian Story

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 4

THE house yonder ? Aye, it be a party place, sure and Set. party be they as lives there. Be thee gwine up along, now?'…

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Rich Gold Discovery

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 4

A private letter from [?] Creak states that the party who recently made the phenomenally rich discovery of gold, secured £1200 worth in eight hours…

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We Wish our Farming, Grazing, Mining, and all other Kindred Industries a Prosperous New Year. His First Christmas Tree

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 3
Also in The Inverell Times

I dess 'ey's not aboy in town 'At's luckier 'an me, Tause mamma she jus'let me have My firstsus Trismus tree,…

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