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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1904

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Commonwealth Mine Mail Service

The Wellington Times · Thursday 24 November 1904 · page 4

A tri-weekly mail service to and from the Commonwealth Mine will be instituted from the first of December next. The mail days will be…

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Street Gold Hunt. Discovery of Coins

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 25 November 1904 · page 3

Romford is in the throes of a gold rush. Even children are excitedly agitating the auriferous earth with sieves. The finds have varied from a farthing to a…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 2

THE Occidental Mine is looking well. THE boundary shaft at the Premier G.M. Syndicate's mine at the Peak is now down 110 feet. The syndicate…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 6

The Fort Bourke mine is reported to be running short of oxidised ire and it is significant that only 50 bead of the battery have been running…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 2

The Queen Bee directors visited the mine on Wednesday last, and spent the day at Bee Mountain. Mr. Bevan was installed in charge of the…

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Big Find of Gold

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 5

Party tributers at Spring Gully, Victoria, have found a pocket of solid gold weighing 250 ounces…

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Miners Drowned

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 December 1904 · page 2

Two young miners named William and Alfred Hicks were drowned at Avoca River, near St. Arnaud, Victoria, on Saturday…

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Gold-mining Leases

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 December 1904 · page 4

By notice in the "Government Gazette" of 6th instant, the following leases have been cancelled and are now available for occupation under the…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 17 December 1904 · page 2

A return furnished by the Undersecretary for Mines shows that the gold yield recorded for the month of November was 29,480oz., valued at…

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Mining on Private Property

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 17 December 1904 · page 7

In more than one of the States of the Commonwealth there is a great dissatisfaction in regard to the lack of facilities afforded prospectors for…

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Mining. Queen Bee Mine

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

The mine manager's report of the above mine up to the 10th December states as follows:—"At the 150ft. level the main north drive is being…

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The Coal Mining Dispute. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 5

A special sitting of the Arbitration Court will be held on Wednesday, to hear the application of the northern miners for an injunction to prevent the reduction of the…

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Prize Essays Dr. Burkitt's Gold Medals

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 3

THE following are the essays which gained first prize at the schools named, in the competition for the gold medals presented by Dr. Burkitt:—…

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A Gold Medal for an Aggressive Nose

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 7

PARIS, we learn, is in a "fervent of anticipatory excitement" over the forthcoming cock-crowing contest. 'Cocks from all countries will complete in a crowing…

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The Commonwealth Mine. How Things at Present Stand

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 December 1904 · page 4

Affairs in connection with the proper working: of the Commonwealth Mine are still comparatively at a standstill, owing to the failure of the…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 31 December 1904 · page 5

Occidental, Cobar, (N.S.W.), on the eve of closing down for want of water, got an undeserved respite from a thunderstorm. Remarkable that…

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Interesting to Miners. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 31 December 1904 · page 5

An interesting mining case was heard at Woqllongong yesterday, concerning the alleged breach of the rule "The last to come the first to go." The defendants…

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