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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

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Gold in the Road

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1907 · page 2

WHILE walking along a road at Kingston, near Creswick (Vic.) on a recent Sunday, a young man named James Richard observed something glittering among the quartz top dressing of the…

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Munificent Mines

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 20 February 1907 · page 4

The Broken Hill South Company during the past half-year made a net profit of £99,970. The North Broken Hill Company's…

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Food From Coal

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 6

Coal is henceforth good food. Dr. Emil Fischer, the winner of the Nobel prize in 1902, professor of chemistry in the University of Berlin, and…

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A Mining Case

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 4

IN the Warden's Court on Tuesday, be[?] Mr. Warden Allnu[?], William M'Kinley Armidale) William Smith, and C. W. Wa[?] (of Newcastle), holding a prospecting area…

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Mining Notes. the "Y" Waterholes Company

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 4

THIS enterprising company are vigorously getting through with completion of the large initial construction works in connection with their enterprise, the first portion…

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Mining Notes

The Uralla News · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 2

Mr. T. W. Edwards has made application for a dredging lease on Kentucky Creek; area, 50 acres. Mr. Edwards has a company ready to start…

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EMMAVILLE. Mining Notes. Burke's Hill Tin Sluicing Company

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 2

THE acquisition of the well- known alluvial formation, comprising what is known as Surface Hill or Burke's Hill, on the Emmaville- Glen Innes road, has also fallen to the…

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English Goldfield. "Reef 31 Miles Long."

The Uralla News · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 4

For some time past rumors have been afloat as to the discovery of a gold-field in England within 200 miles of London. It has been stated in whispers that the…

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The Poseidon Gold-field. MELBOURNE, Monday Night

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

ANOTHER nugget of 40 ouncses of gold has been found by Wragge Bros. at the "Poseidon" rush, near Tarnagulla(Vic.)…

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Mining Dispute

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1907 · page 3

MR WARDEN ALLNUTT was cocupled yesterday in taking evidence of the defendants in regard to the mining case in which M'Kinley, Smith and Walker objected to…

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Looted Gold Mines a Series of Robberies

The Inverell Times · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 8

A series of amazing robberies are reported from Nevada, where a hundred miners in the goldfields have been looting several mines and stealing large…

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Gold Dredging

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 2

THE Worra Gold Dredging Co. has commenced operations at Mogg's Swamp East Mount Mitchell The excavation are proceeding and operations will be started…

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An Important Mining Case

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 12 March 1907 · page 5

A mining case of some importance was before the Warden last week. It arose over the disputed right to a copper lease on Top Bingara. The lease in dispute…

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Exodus from Poseidon Gold Field. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1907 · page 5

A GREAT exodus of miners from the Poseidon gold field, Victoria, has taken place. No lees than 300 men have left during the last few days…

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Auckland Gold Robbery

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1907 · page 4

Two more persons have been committed for trial in connection with the robbery of gold from the steamer Navus…

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A Mining Slump

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1907 · page 4

There was great excitement in the Melbourne Stock Exchange yesterday, when it became known that the yield from 342. tons of stuff at the…

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Looted Gold Mines. a Series of Robberies

Guyra Argus · Thursday 14 March 1907 · page 8

A series of amazing robberies are reported from Nevada, where a hundred miners in the goldfields have been looting several mines and stealing large…

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Mining Case

Guyra Argus · Thursday 14 March 1907 · page 3

At Glen INnes Warden's Court last week an inquiry was held i to m. application, No 21, Kookabookra lodged by Messrs Sachs and Munro,…

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The Navy's Coal Cellars

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 2

SCATTERED about various parts of the globe are dozens of John Bull's coalcellers, the places that are kept specially and almost entirely for his…

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The Lost Mines of Mexico

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 4

The murder of two American prospectors in the Sierra Madre Mountains, State of Sonora, Mexico, by a band of Yaqui Indians has prevented,…

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