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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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

Mine Accident

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 18 December 1906 · page 7

Two men working in the New Hillgrove Mine on Saturday were buried by falling debris. It took four hours to rescue one of them…

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Mine Accident

The Inverell Times · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 11

At Corrinal and Balgowrie Colliery the brake boy, named Leslie O'Connor, was caught in some machinery and his body severed below the abdomen…

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Mining Notes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 4

Dredging Enterprise. THE completion of the first portion of the huge construction works of "Y" Waterholes dredging enterprise, viz, the large dam, road…

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Miscellaneous Articles. Gold in Red Clay

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 2

IT has been discovered that the common red clay of which bricks are made contain gold at the rate of nearly a shillingsworth to the ton. In the houses of London there…

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Steve Reddy's Wish, and How It Was Realised. (Original.) How a Change of Luck Came to an Old Gold-digger in the Good Old Times. An Australian Christmas Story by Paul Twyford. COPYRIGHT

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 7

It was one of those old-fashioned winter nights, when, for weeks at a stretch, snow and rain followed each other…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 22 December 1906 · page 2

Owing to an explosion in the Baker's Creek mine, Hillgrove, H. Andrews and G. Webb were greatly knocked about by falling stone. Both men…

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Mining in Queensland. Review of the Year. Report by the Under Secretary for Mines

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1906 · page 8

The following is an advance copy of the annual report of the Under Secretary for Mines (Mr. A. R. Macdonald) on the Queensland mining, industry for the year…

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Gold-Robbeps at Kalgoorlie. Walk Into a Trap

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 December 1906 · page 2

An attempt at robbery took place at Tower-bill Mine, Kalgoorlie, at midnight on Monday night. It appears that the watchman was…

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New Mining Act Delayed. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 5

THE now Mining Act will not come Into force for tome time, as two or three months st the least will be occupied in the preparation of regulations…

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Mining Notes

The Uralla News · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 2

It is very satisfactory to know that the old Phomix gold mine, Rock vale, has been taken up again; 20 acres were applied for as a lease, on the 27th…

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