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Mining & the mines, 1906

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Mine Disaster. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 4

A [?] mine dimaster is reported from the Rand, S.A. It appeared that hravy rains [?] the Redd sheft of the South R[?] Deep, with…

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Tingha Mining

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 3

M'Leod and party, tributing in M'Lean's a paddock, have washed up with satisfactory results. M'Lean and party, working the adjoining block,…

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A Mining Matter

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 4

A SUIT by August Beil, against Valentine Sachs, Munro, and others, to have it declared that he is co-owner with the defendant, Sachs, in the Kingsgate Molybdonito Mine, situated near Glen…

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Mine on Fire

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 4

A fire has occurred in the Broken Hill Junction mine. The men were withdrawn. The extent of the outbreak is unknown…

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A Mine on Fire. SYDNEY

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1906 · page 2

A FIRE has occurred in tha Broken Hill Junction mine. The men were withdrawn. The extent of the outbreak is unknown…

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Explosion in a Mine

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 4

Daniel Sheeby and Georga Boggon were working at the Great Southern mine, Bendigo (Vic), yesterday, when an explosion occurred. Sheeby, who…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 2

Mr. J. H. Barbour has now won 100 ounces of gold from 300 tons of tailings at Niangala. He is about to open up a much-fancied reef at Terrible…

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Mining at Huntingdon

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 2

The mineral lodes at Huntingdon seem to be attracting some considerable interest both locally and in other parts of the State. On Monday last…

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The Madagascar Goldfields

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 5
Also in The Inverell Times

A Reuter telegram from Paris, dated 24th November, states that the decree making further regulations with regard to the gold mines in Madagascar…

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Coal Hewing Rats. NEWCASTLE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 February 1906 · page 5

THE several lodges of the Northern Miners' Federation have approved of the Proposal to demand on increase of eight pence per ton on the bowing rate…

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Mining Museum

The Tingha Miner and North Western Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 2

THE importance of the mining industry in this State seems to be very imperfectly understood by the Successive…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 4

The aggregate value of all the mineral won in New South Wales to December 31 last is £164,322,805. Probate has been granted in…

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That Mining Reserve

The Tingha Miner and North Western Advocate · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 1

SIR,—There has been a lot of talk lately in Tingha re the above, and as most of the talkers, have “an axe to grind,” a certain amount of earnestness appears to be forced…

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Bundarra Copper Mine

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 6

Operations in the Bundarra Copper Mine continue to be carried on in a most satisfactory manner, and generally…

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Mining

The Inverell Times · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 6

Advices from Solferino state that at the Horseshoe Bend, 16 chains have been pegged out and measured. Some fine prospects have been obtained in one claim from the bottom,…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 2

We hear that the copper mine at Europambela is being worked again Mr. Ellesmere, of Tamworth, put two men on during the week. Messrs…

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Mining ca[?] LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 5

'A [?] expla[?] has been [?] by a [?] at a depth of the fect in the [?] mi[?]s in France. In all [?] miners were bu[?]rd of whom [?]…

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Terrible Disaster. Coal Mine on Fire. [?] London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 3

The most terrible mining disaster for many years has occurred at Ceurrieres, France, 1219 lives being lost. Recent heavy rains in the north of…

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Cablegrams. London, Monday. Colliery Disaster

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 4

The latest estimate of the deaths in the French colliery disaster stands at upwards of 1100. The disaster has caused a profound…

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