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Mining & the mines, 1894

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Our Goldfields. WYALONG

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 16 June 1894 · page 5

SEVERAL of the [?]erding claims at the Wyalong goldfield report important fresh developments. At Clements' well known show they have now five distinct lines of…

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Mining oil Private Property Act. the Regulations

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 June 1894 · page 2

THE regulations under the Mining on Private Property Act which have been prepared by Mr. Harrie Wood, Under. Secretary for Mines, have been published…

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The Wyalong Gold Field. Work Proceeding Briskly. Wyalong

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 June 1894 · page 2

A MEETING of shareholders in several of the claims is to be called for the purpose of taking steps to induce the owners of Gough's battery to crush only small lots of stone…

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The Wyalong Goldfield

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 19 June 1894 · page 4

A meeting of the shareholders in several of the claims is to be called for the purpose of taking steps to induce the owners of Gough's battery to crush only small lots of…

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The Garangula Gold Rush

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 21 June 1894 · page 4

MR. A. H. Barclay, who (Tuesday's Sydney Morning Herald says) has just returned from a visit to the new alluvial rush at Garangula, writes: The field is about 17 miles from…

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The Wyalong Gold Field. Wyalong

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 21 June 1894 · page 2

ON the goldfield proper, King and party in the Eureka claim have a fair reef, averaging from 6in. to 10in. wide at 60ft. It runs north-east, and is a supposed leader of the…

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The Mount Huxley Mine. Proceedings for Conspiracy. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 21 June 1894 · page 4

Mr Samuel, who is prominently connected with the Mount Huxley mine, to-day received a telegram from his representative in Tasmania, stating that a man named Barker…

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The Mount Huxley Goldfield. Reports by Experts. Collapse of the Scheme. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 23 June 1894 · page 4

A MEETING of the shareholders in the Mount Huxley mine was held to-day, and was of a most sensational character. The object of the meeting was to receive the reports of…

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Wyalong Goldfield. WYALONG

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 23 June 1894 · page 3

AT the Pine Ridge, two miles out of Wyalong township, one of the latest and most important developments of the field, Kegan and party, at the prospecting claim, have four…

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Colliery Explosion in Wales. Eight-six Lives Lost. London, June 23

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1894 · page 2

AN explosion occurred to-day in a coal mine in Pontypridd, in South Wales, and it it feared will result in serious loss of life. When the explosion occurred 260 miners…

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The Mount Huxley Mine. Return of Mr. Montgomery

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 26 June 1894 · page 4

Mr. Montgomery, the Government Geologist, has returned to Lunceston from Mount Huxley. He says that an erroneous empression has gained…

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The West Australian Gold Fields. Perth

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1894 · page 2

NEWS from Coolgardie is to date June 20:—Cosgrove's Bayley's South mine has been seized by the police acting as sheriffs' officers. The seizure was made under a…

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The Mount Huxley Goldfield. Tasmania

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1894 · page 2

MR. Samuel, the promoter of the Mount Huxley syndicate, accompanied by Mr. Fulton, expert, arrived at Launceston yesterday, and proceeded to Hobart…

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Wyalong Goldfield

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 June 1894 · page 4

A GOLDFIELD, like almost every other neighbourhood, has its season of monotony when news becomes scarce, and everything that gives rise to news which would be of…

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Colliery Explosion in Wales. London, June 25

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 June 1894 · page 3

THE rescue parties which are searching for survivors in the Taff-vale colliery, where yesterday an explosion of fire damp occurred while over 250 men were below, have…

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The Wyalong Gold Field. Latest Crushings. Wyalong

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 June 1894 · page 2

THE first crushing of stone at Gough's battery was completed on Friday, when 106 tons gave the gross yield of 178oz. of gold, or 1oz. 13½dwts. to the ton. This is…

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The Coolgardie Gold Field Perth

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 June 1894 · page 4

News from Coolgardie is to date June 23:—A splendid shoot of gold has been struck in Baley's South Extended in a parallel…

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The Wyalong Gold Field. Some Good Developments. Wyalong

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1894 · page 4

CLEMENTS and party at the 85ft. level to-day cut a vein of spongy decomposed quartzite carrying good gold. This peculiar formation is now coming into a great many claims,…

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The West Australian Gold Fields. Some Rich Discoveries. Perth

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1894 · page 4

NEWS from Coolgardie to 23rd June states that a splendid shoot of gold has been struck in Bayley's South Extended mine in the parallel reef, within 150ft. of the main shaft…

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The West Australian Gold Fields. the Londonderry Reef. the Most Remarkable Discovery at Coolgardie. (From the Daily Telegraph's Special Commissioner.) Southern Cross

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 5 July 1894 · page 3

ALTHOUGH the Southern Cross train was five hours late to-day it reached Perth before the news of the discovery of the second, if not greater, Bayley's. Nothing but a generally…

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