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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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South African Gold

Manilla Express · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 2

The Transvaal gold output last year totalled £20,802,074 sterling…

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A Wonderful Mine Of Oak Forest

Manilla Express · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 5

A Russian timber dealer has discovered a valuable mine of oak. It exists in a river in South Russia, and has layers three or four feet deep, scattered over one hundred…

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The Toll of the Mines. a Year's Grim Record

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 3

Official figures show that 877,037 persons were employed in the mines of the United Kingdom last year, and that 639,967 of this total worked…

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Golden Horse Shoes. An Incident in Early Mining Days

Manilla Express · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 3

THE death of Mr. Daniel Cameron, who in the early fifties represented the Ovens in the Victorian Legislative Council, and as to whom it has often…

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The Western Coal Contract

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 6

The Railway Commissioners say there will be nothing in reference to the Commissioners' report on the western coal contract, until they have…

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A Bag of Gold in a Tram-car

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 2

It is not every tram-car passenger who casually leaves a bug containing nearly £1000 in notes and gold behind him on the seat when he leaps from…

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A Bag of Gold in a Tram-car

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 4

It is not every tram-car passenger who casually leaves a bag containing nearly £1000 in notes and gold behind him on the sent when he leaps from…

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Assessment of Mines

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 5

Some dissatisfaction having been expressed in various quarters with the provisions of the Shires Act in regard to the assessment of mines, it has been…

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A Promising Goldfield

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 6 February 1906 · page 3

THE Minister of Mines has received the following report from the warden (Mr. T. A. Smith) at Trunkay, respecting a rich reef being worked at…

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Suilt From Coal

The Moree News · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 4

A [?], after the [?] type of [?], will [?] mining industry at the St. Louis Expe[?] The [?]…

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The Madagascar Gold- Fields

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 3

A Reuter telegram from Paris, dated 24th November, states that the decree making further regulations with regard to the gold mines in,…

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Protection for Miners

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 6

The Tamworth Land Board (writes the "Evening News" correspondent) has just concluded a three, days' sitting at Nundle to inquire into several…

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Diamond Mining

The Moree News · Tuesday 20 February 1906 · page 3

Diamond mining at Kinbeeley is the suh iect of an illuatrated article in the "being- neenng Magazine. from which It apperas that the accient, laborious methods of part…

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Gold in Sheep's Teeth

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 5

An unusual application was made to the Clerk of Petty Session at Hay last week for two miners' rights. The incident which led to the application is…

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Stanford-merthyr Colliery

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 27 February 1906 · page 3

ANOTHER bore has been sunk into the Stanford-Merthyr Collier, the scene of the mining disaster on October 29 last, to test the temperature. This is the third bore sunk,…

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With Regard to Mining

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 27 February 1906 · page 2

A WRITER in a Gunnedah paper has discovered great mining possibilities in the Attunga district. I agree with that writer, every time, because the week I was there…

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The Madagascar Gold-[?]

The Moree News · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 3

A Renter telegram from Paris, dated 24th November, Dates that the decree making farther regulations with regard [?] the gold [?] in Madagas…

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Gold Discoveries

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 6

It is reported that gold has been discovered in several places along the Thane-Goondiwindi railway route. The proposed track lies through a large…

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Reach Mining on the North Coast

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 6

The Murwillumbah correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." writes:— "The enterprise of Mr. Argles in erecting a plant for the extraction of gold from…

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Cablegrams. London, Monday. French Colliery Disaster

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

FROM the scene of the fearful mining disaster at Courriers (France), a great number of the corpses have been recovered, many of them headless…

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