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Mining & the mines, 1892

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The Mining Horoscope

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 6 December 1892 · page 2

FOR three years mining has been causing excitement in the Gundagai district; many from a distance have visited the place on account of the glowing reports of the abundance of gold supposed…

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Gold Production of the World

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 6 December 1892 · page 3

THE Times gives some very interesting and important figures as to the gold production of the world. The yield is yearly increasing and that of 1891 was the largest ever…

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Reminiscences of the Gold Fields. a Free Ball and Sutter Is the Sixths

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 7 December 1892 · page 6

To the men and women of to-day, the whole hearted hilarity which charactorished life on the goldfields thirty year age, may not commend itself without itself without giving rise to…

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A Convict's Experiences in a Siberian Lead Mine

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 10 December 1892 · page 4

THE Berlin correspondent of the Daily Newt sends some extracts from a recentlypublished book, in which, in letters to his relatives, a convict in Siberia relates his…

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Important Gold Discovery

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 13 December 1892 · page 3

AN Albury telegram of Saturday says: News came to hand to-day that an important discovery of payable. gold has been made about 20 miles from Barmedman…

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Troubles at the Home Mine. Another Shocking Outrage. Wholesale Poisoning of Free Laborers. Forty Dead and Sixty Dying. London, Dec. 12

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 15 December 1892 · page 2

A Dalziel's telegram reports that a shocking crime has been perpetrated at Mr. Andrew Carnegie's Homestead mine, near Pittsburg, where the desperate fighting…

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Mining [?]Ent

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 17 December 1892 · page 8

THE excitement [?] wonderfully rich discoveries which [?] and are being now made in [?] country is waxing warm [?] to generally…

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Shocking Mining Accident. Malmsburby

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 20 December 1892 · page 4

At the O'Connor's Freehold mine, Maimsbury, this morning between 3 and 4 o'clock, a miner named Archibald Collins was killed. Collins, with Geo. Bates, his mate, was…

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