Gold From a Mud Lake. the Man on the Spot
Some comic letters, written on the banks of a lake of mud in the Republic of Colombia, South America, by. the managing director of a treasure-seeking…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1906
93 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 5
Buried Beneath Coal
A party of coal trimmers had a weird experience in Barry Dock on the steamer Italiana. What was believed to be the sound of a human voice, followed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal in the Tropics
The loss of caloric value in steam coat stored in the tropics [?] for some times engaged the attention of the Admiraity. Experts have stated that the best method…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Turning Iron Into Gold
The "Financial Times" (says "The English Mechanic") gives currency to a story, according to which a genial Glasgow doctor has discovered how to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →About Mining Matters
THE most interesting venture in the district at the present time is that of Messrs. Withers, Wall and Co., at Basah Hill, near Pretty Gully, where they have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labor in Gold Mines. Australian Prospector's Story
If you keep on asserting an error often enough and strongly enough it stands a very good chance of becoming accepted as very gospel. Over and over again it has…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining at Drake
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Drake says :—The old White Rock, Phœnixlike, appears to have risen from its ashes, and may be classed ns one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →World's Gold Output
During the year 1904 the total amount of coal produced throughout the world was 886,497,722 metric tons, valued at over £295,000,000, according to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Gold Miner's Plain Story. a Victim of Indigestion, and Mother Seigel's Syrup Was Worth More Than Gold to Him
W. C. Cousins, of King Street, Bendigo, Victoria, is a gold miner by occupation, and is widely known in that city, where he was born, perhaps 80 years ago. Some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Bendigo Mines. Gold at Nearly a Mile Deep
It says much for the marvellous regularity of the reefs in the Bendigo mines that after working for half a century the quartz formations still continue to go down, until…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold Sugery Instruments
It is hoped that risks of blood-poisoning following upon operations may be minimised by an invention, just perfected, by which instruments made of gold will take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Silver Into Gold: What Will Happen
The transmutation of metals—so much ridiculed a few years ago—is now thought to be taking place in nature, but the modern alchemist is still as powerless as was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Luck of Mining Story of a Deserted Shaft
At Scabby Hill, near Appletree Flat. Mudgee, Sergeant, and party have obtained 500oz. of coarse alluvial gold. Three huckets of dirt yielded 11oz. of course gold…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining at Drake
FROM the White Rock mine 74 tons of stone treated at Cockle Creek yielded an average of 82oz. of silver to the ton. There are now 20 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poetry. a Glint Of GOLD?
UNMINDFUL of the wintry cold, The snowdrops peep above the mould, And show an inner glint of gold. To eyes that care to ses…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Elysium Gold Mines (Limited). Chapter I.
Will Guthrie sat at his breakfast table in his dingy lodgings gazing thoughtfully at a letter which the postman had just delivered. A somewhat bitter smile…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gold in Fiji
THERE has been quite a sensation in the capital during the last few days (says the Western Pacific "Herald" of June 5), it having been rumoured that a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →French Miners' War. Fight with the Troops
At a conference of the Prefect o the Pas de Calais, the Public Prosecutor, the consulting engineer to the Courrieres Mines, and Dr [?], it…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bendigo Gold Mines
The wonderful vitality of the Bendigo mines in shown by the gold yield for the first six months of the present year. The field has been working half a century, and,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Beach Mining
THE black sands of the N.S.W. North Coast are to be exploited for gold and platinum. A Melbourne syndicate has secured an option over 50 acres, and has…
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