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

Mining & the mines, 1907

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Opal Mining Amenities

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 7

Notice.--It having come to my knowledge that miners are afraid of being brutally assaulted when offering their opal for sale, I beg to assure them that…

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England's Backbone Report of the Coal Commission

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 7

By way of preface to the evidence taken by them between Jan. 27 and Oct. 21, 1903, the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the extent and probable…

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Sulphur Mines. a Sicilian Official Speaks. Child Slaves

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 2

Mr Hall Caine's drama at Drury Lane has had no more Interested spectator than Commendatore Leono Testa, Inspector-general of the sulphur mines in…

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Gold-Lined Well

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 4

At Nishima in Japan, there is a wonderful castle possessing a gold-lined well, which affords the garrison an abundant water supply. Not only…

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Showers of Gold. a Street Distribution. Amazing Scenes

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 7

Of all the strangers who have over come to london none can he found to rival tho nice old gentleman from [?]ld who has been going about…

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Tower Hill Mine Sensation

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 6

The hearing of the charge of unlawfully wounding Edward Marley, preferred against Gerald Browne, in connection with the mining sensation at…

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Lost Live Mines. Discovery of Leads to Tragedy

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 2

What is believed to have been one of the lost live mines now floating about the English Channel was seen on Wednesday, October 17th, off Selsey…

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Murrurundi Shale Mines

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 5

WITH reference to the Shale Mines at Ardglen, which for the past twelve months have been in course of opening up by the Australian Shale Syndicate,…

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A Drifting Mine

Manilla Express · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 3

Owing to the use of mines in modern naval warfare, there is great danger to neutral shipping, as tho mines are apt to break loose from their moorings and drift…

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

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 7

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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Dead Man's Gold. the Chancellor's Good Fortune

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 7

Mr George Herring's estate, which has just been sworn for probate, will assist the Chancellor of the Exchequer very materially in his efforts to provide a…

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Hall's Creek Gold

Manilla Express · Wednesday 6 February 1907 · page 4

A GOVERNMENT Inspector (Mr. James), who last month inspector claim at Hall's Greek, held by [?] and Party, having furnisher a…

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Looted Gold Mines a Series of Robberies

Manilla Express · Saturday 2 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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Coal at Boggabri

Manilla Express · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 4

As Messrs Free Bros. were boring for water in the Boggabri district the bore went through a seam of coal four feet thick.--Gunnedah…

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English Goldfield. "Reef 31 Miles Long."

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 5 March 1907 · page 3

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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Accident at Curlewis Coal Mine

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 12 March 1907 · page 4

ON Thursday morning last a man named George McIntosh, employed at the Carlewis Coal Mine was crashed between a skip and a post. He was…

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Robbery of Gold. SYDNEY

Manilla Express · Wednesday 13 March 1907 · page 2

Two more persons were committed for trial at Auckland in connection with the robbery of gold from the steamer Navua…

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Looted Gold Mines. a Series of Robberies

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 3

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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Looted Gold Mutes a Series of Robberirs

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 3

A aeries 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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Pallamallawa Bridge. a Deputation to the Minister for Mines

The Moree News · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 4

On Wednesday last whilst Mr J. W. Moore, Minister for Mines was passing through on the train for Wa[?]da, a deputation of residents of Pallamallawa…

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