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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

329 stories in New England's papers · page 4 of 17

Mining

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 2

The Clive dredge cleaned up 27cwt of tiu for the week and is now removing to a new paddock. It was reported (says the Bun darra…

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Colliery Explosion

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 4

Two hundred lives were lost by a colliery explosion in Japan…

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Mining

The Inverell Times · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 4

The tin sent away from Inverell by train last month 113 tons--constitutes a record. The dredges are still going strong. The Wylie Creek dredge is now on…

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Where Are the Miners?

The Tingha Miner and North Western Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 1

ON two occasions [?] N. J. [?] appeared to [?] workers in Tingha to attend a meeting having for its object the…

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True Story of a Coal Merchant's Dog

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 4

A coal dealer had a large Newfoundland dog of wonderful sagacity, named Rover Rover spent all bis time in the coalyard, and whenever a coal-cart was hauled…

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Alleged Gold Stealing Hillgpove. (By Wire).—Friday

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 4

L. B. Evans, Assayer at the Propnetary Mine, was arrested about one o 'clock yesterday by Sen.—Sergt. Bank, for alleged gold stealing…

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Official Correspondence. Department of Mines and Agriculture. Sydney, 21st March, 1906

The Uralla News · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 2

SIR,—With reference to the letter of the 19th October last, presented by yon from the Council Clerk, Uralla, respecting the dangerous state of…

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A Colliery Subsidence. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 2

An extensive subsidence took place at Carrington, near Newcastle, today, in the old workings of the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery. A number of…

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Alleged Gold Stealing. [By Telegraph.]

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 5

HILLGROVE, Thursday Night. AT the Police Court, to-day, Lancelot B. Evens, assayer at the New Hillgrove Proprietary Mine, was charged with the alleged…

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Mining Notes. Y Waterholes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 5

The tributors upon the Y Waterholes tin lead property, numbering about 30 parties, are all doing fairly well, the high price of tin enabling them to work poor ground…

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Electioneering Gold

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 3
Also in The Inverell Times

In America everything can be done by means of money. In England nothing can be done without money. The two things are quite different…

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Allened Gold Stealing

The Inverell Times · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 7

At the Hillgrove Police Court, on Thursday, Luncelot B. Evene, assayer at the New Hillgrove Prep[?]etary Mine, was charged with the alleged stealing of £300 worth of…

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Hillgrove Police Court. Thursday, April 5.—(Before Mr. W. Corbett Lawson, P.m.). Alleged Gold Stealing

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 4

Lanoplot Bawden Evans was charged with [?]ealing gold to the value of about £500, the property of the New Hillgrove Proprietary Mine,…

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Aiieged Gold Stealing

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 April 1906 · page 4

AT the Hillgrove Police Court on Thursday, before the P.M., Lancelot B. Evens, on bail, was charged with stealing about £300 worth of gold the property of the New Hillgrove…

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Emmaville Mining

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 10 April 1906 · page 3

THE tributors upon the Y Waterholes tin lead property, numbering about 30 parties, are all doing fairly well, the high price of tin enabling them to work poor…

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Mining Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 11 April 1906 · page 4

An outburst of gas from the fire area in the Broken Hill Proprietary mine yesterday caused the death of two men named John Farquhar and…

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Mining

Guyra Argus · Friday 13 April 1906 · page 6

Mining in this part of New England is somewhat slack at present. Bath and party are still driving on the Aberfoyle, and report fair…

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The Discoverer of Australian Gold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1906 · page 7

MOST people are cinder the impression that Mr. E. H. Hargraves was the first discovered of gold in Australis, and probably his name will…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 2

It is said that the Bowman mines, near Gloucester, have been floated into a strong company. 40 men were put on on Monday…

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