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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

329 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 17

Miners from the South

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 2

THERE was a contingent of South Australians and Ballaratites in town on Tuesday, a party of 33 having arrived by the morning's mail, en route for Howell, Borah Creek, where the men have…

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Drake Mining

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 2

MINING matters in this district for some time past have not been, very brisk, although a good deal of energy has been displayed in carrying out development…

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Mining Prosperity

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 2

A REVIVAL in mining has undoubtedly set in, influenced to a great extent by the remarkable prices that…

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Emmaville. [By the "Examiner's" Local Reporter.] Mining Notes. Surface Areas Near Town

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 7

I LEARN that the surface areas held by Messrs. C. H. Scherf, A. Wesley, and Thos. Sims, adjoining the main road to Glen Innes, about three miles from town, as…

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Mining

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 2

At Nuggety Gully, near Nowendoc, three sluicing claims are working, with payable results, besides several fossickers. A tunnel is being put in…

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Gold Stealing

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 4

The Mining Warden of West Australia estimates the losses by goldstealing from the local mines to amount to upwards of a million…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 2

Carnotite has been found in South Australia. The ore is a greenish yellow, of a powdering nature, and contains, uranium, vanadium and potassium…

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Mining Items

The Inverell Times · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 4

Prospects at the Sunlight mine, Hillgrove, continue favourable, but the mine has practically, ceased working, most of the men having left to take up…

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The Courrieres Mine. Causes of the Disaster

The Inverell Times · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 3
Also in The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record

Writing from Paris on the night of 14th March the correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" reports:— Pending the results of the Judicial and…

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On The Gold Coast. (Written for the Uralla News.)

The Uralla News · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 2

The departure from New South Wales some time ago of several miners for the above malarial and sickly portion of the great continent of Africa,…

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Mine Romances

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 30 May 1906 · page 3

Every Plate and territory in which gold and silver have been found in any quantity has its stories of discoveries which, while they seem like romances when told, are…

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The Tin Mining Industry. (To the Editor of the TIMES.)

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 30 May 1906 · page 2

Dear Sir,--By your courtesy I crave a small space in jour widely circulating paper. Now that tin is commanding an…

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Creep in a Mine. Broken Hill

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1906 · page 5

THERE was a Creep at the Central mine, Broken Hill, yesterday, when the foundations of the machinery sank three feet, and was thrown out of gear. The creep…

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Mining Notes. Bouveret and Son (Graveyard Creek.)

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1906 · page 5

AFTER many vicissitudes in mining specs, old "Gus" Bouveret has apparently at last secured a fairly lucrative and permanent area of the ground in the lower portion of…

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Mining Regulations

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 June 1906 · page 4

The amending mining regulations gazetted gives the Minister power to issue special gold leases of increased area at reduced rental…

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Mining Appeal

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 June 1906 · page 3

The New Hillgrove Proprietary Co, appealed against the decision of the Mining Warden, at Hillgrove, in regard to the conflicting claims of the…

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Mining Notes

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

Rev. Father Curran recently inspected the country about Woolbrook and was greatly pleased with the prospect of gold there…

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Mining Act

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

AN amending mining regulation gazetted gives the Minister power to issue special gold leases of Increased area at…

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On The Gold Coast. (Written for the Uralla News.)

The Uralla News · Saturday 2 June 1906 · page 2

Another striking object I noticed in the Castle courtyard was an enormons stack of ancient and long-obsolete guns and firearms of all descriptions…

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