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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1904

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Satisfactory Gold Yield

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 4

IT is a matter for congratulation to learn from the return furnished by the Mines Department that the gold yield for the past year shown a considerable…

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Mining in the Transvaal

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 2

The Transvaal gold output steadily increases month by month, and during October reached £l,208,669, which was at the rate of £14,000,000 per annum. In the…

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Export of Gold and Shipments of Butter

Northern Star · Wednesday 20 January 1904 · page 3

The P. and O. steamer Himalaya from Victoria, took one of the largest shipments of gold which has left Melbourne for some time, the shipment being as follow:—…

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Mining in West Africa. As Australian's Impressions

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 8

Mr. FRED. COTTELL, who is well known among mining men in this State, and in West Australia, having some years ago managed the Cobar…

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Mining Development. To the Editor of the Northern Star

Northern Star · Wednesday 24 February 1904 · page 7

SIR,—Looking at the depression in the labor market here, which is accentuated by the retrenchment spirit prevailing in every direction, I thought that perhaps it might be…

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Ocean Coal-mining

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1904 · page 8

MANY people are unaware of the fact that a great deal of the coal hewn in the Newcastle district comes from under the sea. The coal miners of the…

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A New Coal Field

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 8

THERE is every prospect that before very long an important coal deposit at Burragorang in the Picton district, will be developed in a practical…

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Won Her Weight in Gold

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 6

A ROMANTIC story—which is none the less true because it sounds like an incident from a sensational novel—is being told of a Texas girl, who recently won a…

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Mine Robbery at Kalgoorlie

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 2

ANOTHER daring slimes robbery, similar, in many respects to that committed a fortnight ago at the Croesus South mine, and evidently the work…

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A Gold Discovery near Rockhampton

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 2

A DISCOVERY of gold is reported on Oaks station, 45 miles front Rockhampton, and 10 miles from the old Canoona field. Thomasson and party…

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Accidents from Falls In Mines

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1904 · page 4

UNDER the head "Points from the Inspectors' Reports," "Science and Art of Mining," says Mr. Ronaldson, H.M.I.M. (West of Scotland), has…

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Extracting Gold

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 29 April 1904 · page 8

THE Hicks process of gold and silver extraction from refractory ores was explained to about 20 gentlemen interested in mining, at the Hotel Australia, by Mr…

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Drake Mining

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Tuesday 10 May 1904 · page 4

Last week (says Friday's Tenterfield "Courier") Mr. A. P. C. Seymore, representing a Melbourne mining syndicate, and a gentleman of…

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Beach Mining Revival

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 5

BEACH mining is shortly to be entered into very extensively by a syndicate, the principal being Mr. Peer, an American gentlemen. The whole…

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Daring Attempted Mine Robbery

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 5

A SENSATIONAL attempt was made to rob the battery of the New STirling Gold Mining Company, Stirling, Victoria, after the clean-up last week…

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Alluvial Gold Discovery

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 4

THE Under-Secretary for Mines is in receipt of a report from Mr. J. Polkinghorne, inspector of mines, respecting the recent discovery of alluvial…

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Big Supply of Coal

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 17 June 1904 · page 7

THE President (Mr. T. W. Keele) and the Engineer-in-Chief (Mr. J. M. Smail) of the Water and Swerage Board, submitted an exhaustive report in reference…

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Making Gold From Silver

Northern Star · Saturday 25 June 1904 · page 7

Mr. Hunter—American of course—says he has discovered the secret of making gold. He can make it, he says, from silver, and has frequently done so to his own profit and…

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The Value of Gold

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 26 August 1904 · page 6

THE old economists—as far back as Aristotle, defined money us "a ticket," "a token," "a counter," "an evidence of debt," &c. And considered solely from…

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Boy Labour in Mines

The Richmond River Express and Tweed Advertiser · Friday 2 September 1904 · page 8

A CASE affecting mine managers, and the first of its kind to come before a Court in the State was beard by Mr. M'Kensey, P.M., at Wyalong on…

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