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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

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Rich Gold Discovery

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 8 August 1900 · page 3

It is reported that two miners have found a rich reef at Major's Crock, near Braidwood. Twenty-two ounces of gold were dollied from two buckets of stone…

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Gold From America

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 11 August 1900 · page 4

That portion of the British war loan which was taken over by America was covered twice over with gold, thereby greatly relieving the strain upon the Bank of England's coin and…

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Gold Discovery at Gundagai

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 15 August 1900 · page 3

The latest from Gandagai states that the gold token out of the mine on Friday and Saturday is valued at £3000. It is almost pure and resembles lumps of coral…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 2

The Occidental cleaned up for 1193 ounces 10dwts of smelted gold, valued at £4500. The battery was running 40 stamps for five weeks and the…

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Gold at Gundagai

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 5

There has been a further sensational yield at Robinson and Rice's mine near Gundagai. A vein of almost pure gold runs through the claim. One heap of stone weighing 10 pounds is…

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A Colliery Shut Down

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 4

Owing to a trival dispute at the Hetton Colliery, the works have been closed down, and over 500 men thrown out of employment…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 2

Messrs Scantlebury and McLeod, of the Bulletin, visited the Cobar and Drysdale mines this week, The "pussy" page of the red-robed weekly…

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Russia Buying Coal

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 3

Russia is negotating for the purchase of 3,000,000 tons of American coal…

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District Mining

The Wellington Times · Thursday 30 August 1900 · page 2

The Bodangora correspondent of the "Evening News" writes as follows:—For some time past mining operations have been carried on by a syndicate, consisting of…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 1 September 1900 · page 2

We understand that the Cobar Gold mines intend erecting filter presses for the treatment of slimes as they come from the mill. About…

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Gold-Mining Leases

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 September 1900 · page 2

Notice is given that the rent is due and owing upon the undermentioned gold-mining leases and unless paid within 30 days from the date thereof, such leases may be cancelled…

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District News. Bodangora and District. The M. C. Mine

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 September 1900 · page 5

Matters at the M.C. Mine are progressing satisfactorily, and the further deepening of the No. 2 shaft is being pushed on with encouraging results. It is generally…

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Cobar Copper Mine

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 4

Great Cobar Copper Co.: Royalty received for half-year, over £29,000, of which £24,000 has been paid in divs. The tributors have now an…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 2

The Occidental battery cleaned up on Friday, obtaining 233ozs for a three weeks run. On Friday evening the Occidental…

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Bodangora Copper Mine

The Wellington Times · Monday 10 September 1900 · page 2

A Bodangora correspondent writes as follows to the "Evening News":—A good deal of local interest is being centered in the mining operations at the Bodangora…

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Four Barrels of Gold

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 4

Once a man of the labouring class who had often wished to be rich was offered all tin money he wished for if he would accept, without a murmer…

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Foodstuffs in a Mine. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 5

One hundred tons of foodstuffs and a quarter of a million cartridges have been discovered in a Lydenburg mine…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 3

The Occidental cleaned up on Friday. The battery returned 230oz and the cyanide 463oz, the lot being valued at £2620…

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The Transvaae Mines

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 5

Owing to the stoppage of the Transvaal mines, the world's supply of gold has diminished by £15,000,000 sterling the post year…

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Terrible Fatal Accident. At Cobar Gold Mines. Two Men Killed. And Five Injured

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 2

Tho hows of the fatal accident at the Copper Mine bad hardly spread around town when the news was received by telephone from Cobar Gold…

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