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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1898

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Mining News

The Western Herald · Saturday 15 October 1898 · page 4

M[?] as the chief gold producer of [?] H[?] is one of great [?] Spain [?]…

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France's Coal Supplies. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 19 October 1898 · page 3

The French Minister of Marine has given order for the storage of 30,000 tons of coal at Biserts, Tunis,…

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Gold Near Bathurst

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 November 1898 · page 3

SULLIVAN'S syndicate at Chambers' Creekhas " struck it rich." The party numbers eight, and they have been working on the claim since January 9th. They put down…

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Rich Gold Discovery. Sydney, November 4

The Western Herald · Saturday 5 November 1898 · page 2

An enormously rich discovery of gold has been made at Chambers Creek, near Hill End. The reef is described as like a jeweller's shop, pieces of gold the size of a man's…

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Colliery Fatality. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 3

A colliery disaster occurred at East Greta this morning. Three miners were entombed. A search party is now it work. The roof of the tunnel caved in, it is…

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Monkeys as Gold-Finders

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 28 December 1898 · page 3

Captain E. Moss, of the Transvaal, tells the following story of the monkeys who work for him in the mines. ‘I have twenty-four monkeys,’ said…

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