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Mining & the mines, 1905

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Annual Mining Returns. A Big Increase

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1905 · page 2

THROUGH the courtesy of the Warden for the Tenterfield Mining District (Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M.), we are enabled to publish the following returns of the value…

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The Colliery trouble

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 January 1905 · page 4

The cessation of operations took place in the Abermain and Lambton colleries yesterday. The Exscutive of the Miners' Federation last night…

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A Wonderful Mine

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 27 January 1905 · page 4

HUNDREDS of tons of gold have been produced from the Mount Morgan mine, and one would think that the wealth in the mine should now be nearly exhausted. But so far from that being the…

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Rich Gold Discovery

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 4

A remarkable gold find has been made thirteen miles from Charters Towers, three and a half tons of surface stone yielding 26[?]s. of gold…

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Used the Wrong Coal

The Inverell Times · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 3

Up Lochfyne some time ago an old fisherman with a sense of humor in better workings order than his confidence, came on a dead fish called a "stenlock," or coalfish…

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Latest Telegrams. SYDNEY, Friday. Gold Find

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 3

A remarkable gold find has been made 13 miles from Charters Towers: Three and a half tons of surface stone…

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In Quest of Gold. the Murchison Field. a Story of Discovery

The Inverell Times · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 3

There lives at Mt. Lonarch, some 10 miles out of Avoca, an esteemed settler named Mr A. W. Johnson. He had business in Maryborough during last week,…

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Collieries Resume Work

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 February 1905 · page 4

All the northern collieries work to-day…

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Mining

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 1 February 1905 · page 2

Mr. David Lindsay, who is perhaps the bast known man in Australia, as an explorer and prospector, is at present in Inverell inspecting the…

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Mining

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 1 February 1905 · page 5

The first meeting of shareholders in the Brissett syndicate, for the prospecting of Mrs. Marsh's paddock at Gilgai, was held in the Cambridge Hall at that…

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Saving Coal

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 February 1905 · page 8

Buy for a few pence a firebrick about two inches thick. When the fire is burning briskly, and the coals are aglow, lay the flat brick on top…

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Mining

The Inverell Times · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 5
Also in The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record

The Tiugha tin Dredge sent in four tens of tin on Thursday last. The Minister of Mines is preparing a bill, which he hopes will induce both…

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Used the Wrong Coal

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 4

Up Lochfyne some time ago an old fisherman with a sense of humor in better working order than his conscience came on a dead fish called a "stenlock," or coalfish…

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Won Her Weight In Gold

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 4

A romantic story—which is none the less true because it sounds like an incident, from a sensational novel-is being told of a Texas girl, who recently won a fortune…

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In Quest of Gold. the Murchison Field. a Story of Discovery

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 4

There lives at Mt. Lonarch, some 18 miles out of Avoes, an esteemed settler named Mr A. W. Johnson. He had business in Maryborough during last week…

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True Story of a Coal Merchant's Doc

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1905 · page 2

A coal merchant had a huge Newfoundland dog of wonderful sagacity named Hover. Rover spent all his time in the…

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The Colliery Dispute

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 8 February 1905 · page 4

Negotiations are proceeding between the northern co1liery proprietors and ftp Employees Association to bring about an amicable settlement of the…

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Mining

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 8 February 1905 · page 5

The Inverell Tin Dredging Co's. dredge was floated into a new paddock last week and sluicing was resumed on Monday. The paddock just left took…

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Mining Leases

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 8 February 1905 · page 8

Gold and mineral leases in force in the Poel and Uralla mining districts for the half-year ended 31st December, 1905:—The Baker's Creck Gold-mining Company…

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