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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1899

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Colliery Strike London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 5

Forty-eight thousand colliers are out on strike in Belgium…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 2

On Tuesday last the water in the Copper mine reservoir gave out and the pump from O'Gorman's Tank was started. The syndicate now get…

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Wrecking Mining Property. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1899 · page 3

A thousand masked and armed miners seized a train in Idaho, America, and loaded it with dynamite, which was exploded, with the result that mills worth 250,000…

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Gold Dredging in New Zealand

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 6

ALEXANDRA, on the Molyneux River, Otago, New Zealand, is the Mecca of the gold dredger. It is there that inquirers journey from snowy Siberia…

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Mining Casualty. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 2

Dawson and Stewart, step-brothers, have been found dead in a drive of an alluvial claim at Sofala. The roof had fallen in, smothering the men. Dawson…

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Monkeys As Gold Miners

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 3

Captain E. Moas, who has just returned from the Transvaal, tells tko story of the monkeys who work for him to the minos! "I hare twenty-four monkeys," said he…

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White Coal

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 3

"White coal" supplies motive power to nearly every town in Switzerland; we call it snow in England. It in, of course, the melted snow that comes tumbling over the mo[?]…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 6

At a meeting of the Directors of the Drysdale Company, held this week, it was decided to erect a cyanide plant on the field to treat tailings out there…

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Sundown Mine

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 27 May 1899 · page 4

The Stanthorpe paper publishes the following information regarding the Stanthorpe mine, in which local men are much interested:—"This mine…

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Gold Dredging

The Wellington Times · Monday 29 May 1899 · page 2

It seems to be now generally recognized in this colony that there is a great future here for the gold dredging industry. At the present time there is unprecedented…

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Important Gold Find

The Wellington Times · Monday 29 May 1899 · page 2

An important alluvial [?]d of gold is reported from Wunluman. Mr. John P. Schons is the holder of an authority to mine on portion 67 (parish of Wuuluman) of Mrs…

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Gold Dredging in the Macquarie

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 31 May 1899 · page 3

THE Hon. Mr. Cook. Minister for Mines and Agriculture, has expressed his intention of leaving town by the Western mail train on Friday evening, June 2, with a…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 3 June 1899 · page 2

Mr J. M. Scott, mining broker, Cobar, reports :—Business in the share market during the week has been much better than for some time past…

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"A Mining Scandal."

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1899 · page 5

The CATHOLIC PRESS, under the above heading, says:— " Dredging for gold is the latest dodge of the mine promoter. Syndicates are in…

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Gold Stolen

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 6 June 1899 · page 3

On the arrival of the Alameda at San Francisco a box containing 5000 severing was missing…

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River-deredging for Gold. Ministerial Inspection

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1899 · page 2

ON Saturday last, the Minister for Minns (Hon. J. Cook) and a number of Departmental and other visitors Attended at the junction of the…

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Gold Dredging in N.S.W.

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 June 1899 · page 2

An article with the above heading, appearing in a recent issue of the "Times," and setting out the important results achieved in New Zealand, and the success which may be predicted from the efforts…

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Big Gold Robbery

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 9 June 1899 · page 4

WHEN the R.M.S. Alamoda arrived at San Francisco from Sydney, via Auckland, N.Z., it was discovered that a box of sovereigns, value £5000, was missing from the strong-room…

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The Gold Robbery

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 9 June 1899 · page 5

The Union Company has offered £500 reward for information loading to the recovery of the sovereigns stolen from the Alameda…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 10 June 1899 · page 3

Mr J. M. Scott, Mining Broker, Cobar reports: Owing to the break in the weather and the appearances of a good rain, stocks had better inquiry during…

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