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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

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Elsmore Valley Tin Mine

The Inverell Times · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 9

It is indeed pleasant and gratifying for us to learn that the Elsmore Valley. Tin Mine will soon be in full working order again. Residents of Inverell will…

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Mining Notes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 7

F. FOSTER & PARTY.-- Prior to the sale of the "Y". Waterholes property this party were making good money form a drain there on tribute, and like others, upon getting…

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Blown to Pieces Trying to Make Gold

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 5

M. Capl, a distinguished chemist and alchemist, who has long been trying to manufacture gold, brought about the death of himself -and his family last month…

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Bats as Gold Mines

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 3

IT is a common practice for the boys in some watch and jewellery factories to kill the rats which infest the buildings, end barn the bodies…

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Rand Gold

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 2

THE dividends of the Rand gold-mining for last year amounted to £5,605,000--a record. The gold output for 1000 was valued at £24,570,987. an increase of nearly four millions…

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Wonderful Gold Find

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 4

An extraordinary find of gold is reported from Meekatharra, Western Australia, where stone weighing 2351bs yielded 1181oz…

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German Colliery Disaster. a Terrible Holocaust. [?] LONDON

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 7

AN expolision occurred in the coal pit at Reden, in Khenish Prussia. Four hundred and twenty-five miners were entombed, and 125 bodies have been…

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Extraordinary Gold Find. PERTH

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 5

AN extraordinary gold find has bean made at Meekatharra, West Australia. 235lbs. of stone yielded no less than 118[?]ozs of the precions metal…

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Reden Mining Disaster. LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 5

TWENTY-FIVE more bodies have been rescued from the Reden mine. The party of resoners, which was feared had perished, is safe…

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Miners Entombed

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 4

Eighty miners have been entombed by a fall of earth in a Virginian mine…

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Mining Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 4

Rufus Falkner, aged 72, fell 62 feet down a shaft near Wellington, N.S.W., and was killed…

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New Mining Act

The Uralla News · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 2

The 'Inverell Argus' says: One of the most urgent measures of reform in this State was a new Mining Act, framed on lines dictated by practical…

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Telegraphic. [Through of Metropolitan Agents.] The Poseidon Gold Bush. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 February 1907 · page 5

MORE large nuggets have men discovered at the Poseidon rush, Victoria. It is rumoured that one weighing 206oz. mis found at a depth of 12 feet…

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Realms of Gold. Three Great Questions. the Monarch's Search

Guyra Argus · Thursday 7 February 1907 · page 6

It once occurred to a certain King that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen…

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Miners' Institute

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1907 · page 5

THE half yearly meeting of the members of the above was held in the reading room on Thursday evening, the 31st ultimo, and in spite of unfavorable weather there was a…

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Mining Notes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1907 · page 5

WEDD'S SILVER MINE.--The well-known silver-lead property known as Webb's Silver Mine, or "The Little Plant," situated in the parish of Strathbogie north, about eight…

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The Gold Yield

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 February 1907 · page 4

The gold yield for January showed a comparative decrease of 2763oz…

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Goose Picking up Gold

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1907 · page 2

A PECULIAR find of gold has, it is said, been made by a resident of Linton (Vic.) A goose was killed, and on being opened, rough specs of gold were found, the lot being about three quarters of…

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Westralian Mining

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 February 1907 · page 4

Dividends paid by the West Australian Gold Mines Coy. Inst year, amounted to £1,992,000, making £16,214,000 to date…

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Mining

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 19 February 1907 · page 7

The Broken Hill South Company during the past half-year, made a net profit of £999,007. The North Broken Hill Company's nett profit was…

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