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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1909

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Sleeping on Gold

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 2

The practice of hiding money away in all manner of out-of-the-way corners is by no means modern. In the old days, according to "Gleanings…

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Mining Accident

The Inverell Times · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 11

A miner named Charles Peavous was killed and his companion Charles Woosman injured by a water bucket knocking some material down the shaft…

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The Sulphur Mines of Sicily

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 4

The earthquake which has desolated Messina will doubtless seriously affect the sulphur industry of Sicily, which is not only the oldest, but…

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(All Rights Reserved.) The Mine Master's Heir or the Real John Smith. Introductory

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 3

John Thompson, of Witton House, in the heart of the northern colliery country, is a hard, unsentimental mine-owner, whose one ambition has…

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Mining Fatality

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 28 August 1909 · page 5

A miner named Charles Peavons was killed, and a companion, Charles Woos. man, injured by, a water bucket knocking some material dow the shaft of a…

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Disastrous Mining Accident

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 31 August 1909 · page 2

Through the breaking of a Cable, on Friday last, a mining cage containing 30 persons fell to the bottom of one of the pits in the naval colliery at…

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South African Gold. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 31 August 1909 · page 5

A shipment of gold valued at £1, 143,271 has arrived at Southampton from South Africa. This is the largest shipment of South African gold…

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Mine Flooded

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 September 1909 · page 5

Twenty-six miners were drowned by the flooding of a mine in Poland…

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Mining

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 4

The Britain property has proved a first-class paying investment, and the mee[?]s of its operations to date is reflected in the shares…

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Gold Production

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 4

The gold yield in this State during July was 27,557oz. crude, equal to £2,447oz. floe, valued at £95,349. The value of gold produced during…

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Fortune From a Dream. a Coolgardie Gold was Discovered

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 7

Dick Whittington is not the on by person whose imagination went far Towards making his fortune. one are many authentiated…

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Gold Yield

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 7 September 1909 · page 2

The State gold yield for the eight months of the present year shows an decrease of £110,000…

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Stann[?] Mining

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 7 September 1909 · page 2

Stannifer Freehold Deep Lead Tin Brines Ltd., August 14.—Thirty-four feet of driving was done during the week, and 60 yards of wash dirt were…

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I E L E G R a M S. SYDNEY, Tuesday GOLD

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 8 September 1909 · page 4

The State gold yield for the past eight months of the-present year shows a decrease of £110,OOO in valne. MARGARIE…

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Sleeping on Gold

Guyra Argus · Thursday 9 September 1909 · page 6

The practice of hiding money away in all manner of out-of-the way corners is by no means modern. In the old days, according to "Gleanings…

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Newcastle Colliery Troubles. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 10 September 1909 · page 5

In regard to the colliery troubles at Newcastle, although no figures are yet available, it is understood that the ballot which has been in…

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Fortune's Smile in Mining

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 10 September 1909 · page 4

A writer in the Dusedin "Star" relates an incident which shows that fortune played strange [?] Le days of the diggings. A callow youth…

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A New Gold Find

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 13 September 1909 · page 4

A gold rush has set in between Mount Ohalmers and Cawarral, in the Rockhampton district (Q.) A man named Albion, one of a party of…

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Miscellaneous Articles. Gold and Silver Coinage

Glen Innes Examiner · Friday 17 September 1909 · page 6

The trial of the Pyx, or testing of the gold and silver coinage, just concluded, was the first occasion on which the coinage of the new…

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(All Rights Reserved.) The Mine Master's Heir or the Real John Smith. Part 7

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 17 September 1909 · page 3

Jack looked round. "I don't understand," he said. "Then I'll put it straight. I was crossing the moor, and I saw a man…

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