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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

329 stories in New England's papers · page 10 of 17

Conference. Settlers and Miners Confer

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 4

ON Saturday morning an important conference was opened between mining representatives of the district and delegates from the various branches of the Farmers and…

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EMMAVILLE. Mining Industry

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 2

A REPRESENTATIVE of one of the Sydney morning dailies is in town, writing up the field. Thanks to the EXAMINER, a good deal of attention is being bestowed on tin-mining…

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Newcastle Mining Trouble. NEWCASTLE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 5

THE mining trouble at Newcastle is virtually over and work will be resumed at all the collieries to-day…

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Miners Entombed

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 July 1906 · page 4

Four men were entombed in the Alexandra Mine, New Zealand. They were rescued late on Saturday night, after lying for hours with only…

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Mining Notes. E. Sturtridge's Claim

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 4

THIS well-known and [?] mineral area at Surface Hill, situated adjacent to the Glen Innes road, about 2½ miles from town, and adjoining the "Y"…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 2
Also in The Uralla News

The Europambela copper mine is very promising. About 30 tons of stone have been sent away during the past three weeks, and more valuable…

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"Spotted Fever" Epidemic. Among German Miners

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 3
Also in The Inverell Times

The Dusseldorf correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 1st May:- An epidemic of "spotted fever." or…

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The Vast Future for Gold Dredging

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 4

Like most other inventions, the gold dredge is a development. A gold dredge was used od the Magdalena River twenty years ago; the device was further…

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Buried Treasure. (Continued from last Issue). Iii—piratu Gold

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 8

We could do nothing for him except shelter him from the son, and wet his forehead with sea water; nor could we think clearly for ourselves as…

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Mining Notes. Warren's Chutes at Reedy Creek

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1906 · page 5

OPERATIONS have been kept steadily going by the Messrs. Warren. since my last report of this rich group of tin producers, and: up wards of 66 tons of steno, averaging between…

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Romance of Gold. Mine Shareholders Receive Eight Millions in Eighteen Years

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 3

City company meetings as a rule, are pro[?] functions. But the gathering in the city on 18th March of the shareholders of the Mysore Gold Mining Company--one…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 2

It is said that there are indications of tin near Niangala. We are pleased to hear that Mr. S. Crane intends to collect local…

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Glen Innes Mining

The Tingha Miner and North Western Advocate · Saturday 28 July 1906 · page 1

A very important tin discovery has just been made one mile east of Murphy’s Success mine, near Mann River. The development is in the…

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Cyclone Bill's Yarn. a Mining Camp Story

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 August 1906 · page 8

It was fit a congregation of cattlemen in the Far West. A dead silence fell on the circle. Everybody shifted position the better to listen to the…

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Meeting of Miners

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 August 1906 · page 4

A PUBLIC meeting of miners, under the auspices of the Miners' Association, was hold in Fraser's sample room on Friday last. Mr. J. Hurley (V. P. of the association)…

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Some Safe Rules for Miners to Follow

The Inverell Times · Saturday 4 August 1906 · page 4

I. Thou shalt not slumber late in the morning, but shalt rise ore it is day, and break thy test, fer he that goeth late to the mine getteth no candles, causeth the…

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Reform in Mining Law

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 August 1906 · page 2

FOR the last quarter of a century each successive Government has promised to amend the laws in…

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Farmers and Miners in Conference

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 4

SIR,-- I beg a,little space in your well read paper he the above subject. The following motion was passed on July 14 : "That in the opinion of the Conference the Mining on Private Property…

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