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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

329 stories in New England's papers · page 8 of 17

Mining Items. Glen Innes District

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 6 June 1906 · page 2

Tin mining operations continue to be brisk, and large quantities of ore are at grass waiting for rain. Speculators are also met with, and a number of good claims have…

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A Gold Miner's Plain Siory A Victim of Indigestion, and Mother Seigel's Syrup was Worth more than Gold to him

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 6 June 1906 · page 5

W. C. Cousins, of King Street, Bendigo, Victoria, is a gold miner by [?]cuption, and is widely known in that city, where he was born perhaps 30 years ago Some years ago be was…

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Mining Notes. The Kangaroo Plat Lead

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 5

THIS celebrated old lead is situated about 12 miles north-west of the town, and forms portion of the immense belt of basaltic mineral bearing country extending from the…

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River Bed of Gold. Alaskan Prospectors' Golden Treasure

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 3

IN the winter of 1899 1900 four men camped on the Upper Porcupine River about 400 miles above Rampart. It was their purpose to, prospect the next season on the…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 2

At Limbri prospectors are getting a little gold on the flats at Golden Gully, where some good patches were obtained a few years back…

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

The Uralla News · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 2

By the bye at Ascension a pet monkey we had on board died, his complaint being a surfeit of whitelead. We were giving the hull of the…

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Drake Mining. Payable Mineral at a Depth. an Impetus to Deep Mining

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1906 · page 3

SINCE writing my last report, good progress has been made in the Pioneer mine, the tunnel being in now over 600 feet, and recent development has revealed a…

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Rich Gold Find

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 June 1906 · page 4

Two miners secured five ourices of alluvial gold near Mudgee, the result of a week's work…

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Mining Notes. Tin Chutes at Reedy Creek. Warren and Sons

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 5

"IF I could only have the look to drop on to a show like the Warrens,'" is a remark one now hears on many occasions, and although we cannot all expect to strike such a…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 2

With tin at over £200- - on [?] alleled price-- New England is in ford a big room. Prices will rise even higher, and many of our far- bock town…

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Mining Items

The Inverell Times · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 4

The Hanging Rick correspondent of the "Tamworth Observer" writes:--An exceptionally fine reef of scheeli[?]e has been taken up at the Folly. The reef is in diorite…

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Tin Mining at Bald Nob

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 June 1906 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT informs us that the first machinery, consisting of a Huntingdon, Mill and Woodbury Imperial Concentrator, has been put in position on the property of Severn…

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The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier. AND Fairfield & Wallangarra Advocate Tuesday June 19, 1906. Mining Regulations

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1906 · page 2

AMENDED mining regulations have just been gazetted. They contain a new and liberal provision in respect of special leases for gold-mining. Under conditions…

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Mining [?]

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 20 June 1906 · page 5

[?]..at A place [?].. about 10 miles [?]..Grove tin lodes in [?].. district. They are…

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Gold in Sheep's Teeth

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 20 June 1906 · page 8

When first it was stated that the jawbones of sheep had been discovered covered with gold, aeoeptical smile crept over the face of this continent…

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News of the Day a Mining Magnate

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 20 June 1906 · page 2

A gentleman from Northern Queensland passed through Inverell the other day. He is taking a tour round, and may have a look at the gold bearing country in the Barraba…

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The Rand Mines. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 June 1906 · page 5

MINE owners on the Band are engaging unemployed in England to work in the brines at 7s. 6d. a day. The Radical newspapers regard this as…

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Mining Notes. Dredging, etc

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 June 1906 · page 2

QUITE a number of speculators have been visiting the district within the past month for the purpose of inspecting properties, with a view of purchase for dredging…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 23 June 1906 · page 2

Water is badly wanted at Tingha. Tin has fallen in price and is now quoted at £110. Europambela Copper mine is putting…

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Enormous Coal Deposits

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1906 · page 3

The 'Stahl and Eisen' has recently published some figures bearing upon a portion of the world's coal deposits of which the paper seems…

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