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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1898

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Dredging for Gold

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 3

DURING the last few months the subject of dredging for gold in onr rivers has been discussed by numbers of people interested in mining, and as I have often…

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Mining Dispute in West Australia Kalgoorlie

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 3

The Premier, on his arrival at Coolgardie, was booted by the crowd to his hotel. He afterwards received a deputation [?] the 10-feet regulation…

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Gold-miners' Riot

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1898 · page 3

As briefly stated in our telegrams in last issue, a serious riot occurred at Kalgoorlie on Friday. Further particulars show that a deputation of aliuvial miners waited on…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion. Near Newcastle

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 30 March 1898 · page 2

A terrible explosion occurred at the Dudley colliery, near Newcastle, on Mon day morning, and 15 men were entombed. Search parties have worked night and day…

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Rich Gold Discovery

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 30 March 1898 · page 4

The following message has just been received by the Barraba Gold and Silver Fields Exploration, Limited, from their assistant manager at Crow…

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Riot Amongst Gold Miners

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 1 April 1898 · page 3

PERTH, Friday.--Messages are pouring in from all parts of the colony condemning in strong terms the assault on the Premier at Kalgoorlie. A great, deal of sympathy has been alienated…

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Cobar Mining

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 1 April 1898 · page 3

THE first statutory meeting of the Wild Wave Gold Mining Company was held on Monday afternoon last, when there was a good attendance of shareholders. The business comprised…

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Stuart Town Mining. (From Our Own Correspondent.) March 30

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 3

The Post Office Reef is now down 424ft, and cut the reef at that level. [?] stone looks well. [?] did not ascertain the width of the reef; [?] it is a grand thing for…

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Gas Without Coal

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 6

AFTER recent events in Sydney the public are likely to look askance at inventions claiming to develope a high standard of illumination at a very moderate cost (says Friday's Melbourne…

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He Went to the Rush. a Good Goldfields Yarn

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 April 1898 · page 4

Many a good yarn is told by miners of the old digging days in Victoria, when money was thrown about like water, and when scarcely a fort[?]ght…

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The World's Gold Production

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 29 April 1898 · page 3

THOUGH finality is not possible in estimating the gold yield of any given year, it has already been made apparent, by the enhanced of the three leading mining countries that the…

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Forbes Mining News

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 29 April 1898 · page 3

The old adage, "It's a long lane that has no turning," is applicable, to almost every business or speculative venture in life, but to nothing can it be more justly applied than to the mining…

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The Golden Klondike. an Enormous Rush of Gold Seekers Going In. Sound Advige From an Inhabitant

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1898 · page 4

In the rush towards the golden fields of the Klondike, there are thousands who are ill-fitted to stand the strain of hardship and exposure,…

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He Went to the Rush. a Good Goldfields Yarn

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 10 May 1898 · page 3

MANY a good yarn is told by miners of the old digging days in Victoria when money was thrown about like water, and when scarcely a fortnight passed without some phenomenal had…

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The Kloxdyke Rush and Other Ways of Finding Gold

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 13 May 1898 · page 4

THE world, as everybody knows, is now busy talking of what threatens to eclipse any rush for gold known in history. Even many Australians have taken a practical interest in the…

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Export of Gold

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 17 May 1898 · page 4

THE Moana's shipments of gold for San Francisco total half a million sterling exactly, including the following : -- Union Bank of Australasia, £150,000; Bank of New South…

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Overflow Silver-mining Company

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 20 May 1898 · page 6

THE legal manager of the Overflow Silver-mining Company, No Liability, has received the following report from the tinning manager:--"April 30, Cyanide Treatment.--For the first clean up…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1898 · page 3

The Newcastle Miners Delegate Board carried resolutions yesterday in favour of securing an increased Belling price for coal and increased miners' wages. The miners'…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. Lock Out in the Coal Trade. Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 27 May 1898 · page 5

A DISASTROUS lock out in the coal trade appears to be inevitable, owing to the miners insisting that the weighing regulation shall be adhered to in its entirety…

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Mine Ventilation. Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 4 June 1898 · page 3

Some 180 inventors competed for the prize offered by the Victorian Government for an improved system of mine ventilation…

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