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Mining & the mines, 1896

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Shocking Mining Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1896 · page 4

A SHOCKING double fatality occurred at Lansell's Sandhurst mine, American Gully, Bendigo, this afternoon. The victims are Woodman Higman and…

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Mining. West Wyalong

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 13 June 1896 · page 8

An immense quantity of stone awaits treatment on the different workings on Neeld'e property. Sweeny and party, No. 3 North Homeward Bound, are driving at 150…

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The Prospecting Vote. Meeting of Miners

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 June 1896 · page 2

A meeting of persons interested in mining in the Wagga district met in the store adjoining the Australian Hotel on Saturday afternon for the purpose of enlisting the…

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Our Mining Industry

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 June 1896 · page 5

AN ill-advised and ill-natured to our contemporary of Gundagai, while loudly proclaiming the prosperity of that century old district—of which prosperity…

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Mining Returns for 1895

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 17 June 1896 · page 2

The interesting annual report of the Mines Department for 1895 has been published. It showed that there was a very marked decrease in the value of the…

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Mining. Wyalong. West Wyalong

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 June 1896 · page 4

Considerable excitement was caused yesterday by extensive pegging-out of ground north of Klink and party on the supposed line of their reef, and applications were…

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The Coal Strike. Miners' Terms Refused. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 June 1896 · page 2

An important meeting of all the Newcastle colliery proprietors, whose mines are laid idle, wai held to-day in Sydney to deal with the application of the Miners'…

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Miners' Rights

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 June 1896 · page 3

One little measure has got smuggled through all its stages in the Assembly, for which the working miner ought to be duly thankful. It proposes to reduce the price of the "right"…

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The Coal Strike. a Wage Loss of £71,285

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 June 1896 · page 2

Messrs. Stewart Reigbtly (Newcastle Coalmining Company), John Brown (of J. and A. Brown), and F.J. Doddimeade (W. Laidley and Co.) left on Monday for Sydney, to…

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Tee Coal Trade

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 20 June 1896 · page 2

It seems likely that the present crisis in the coal trade will be the last that will oyer take place through a strike of coal miners in the Newcastle…

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Mining. Wyalong. Wyalong

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 20 June 1896 · page 3

Hennessy and party crushed at Cox's Huntingdon, mill 12 tons of seconds from their claim at Stanley's Blow, for a gross return of 8½ oz. of gold. The Black Snake…

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Mining. Wyalong. Wyalong

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 20 June 1896 · page 7

The Welcome Stranger party are continuing stoping operations at a depth of 150ft. They have received the following returns:—Twelve tons treated at Footscray,…

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The Newcastle Strike. Decision of the Mine Owners

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 June 1896 · page 4

Definite information has been gathered concerning the resolutions arrived at by the coal proprietors in conference. It has been ascertained that they agreed upon a series of…

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Monkeys As Gold Miners

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 4

Captain E. Moss, who has just returned from the Transvaal, tells the story of the monkeys who work for him in the mines: "I have…

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Gold Mining in Gundagai. a General Boom

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 2

THE gold fever shows no sign of abating is Gundagai. The now find near the South Gundagai cometary is believed to be very rich. The direction trends north-west and north-east,…

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Removal of the Mining Warden

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 2

THE extraordinary decision of the Civil Service Board to remove the Police Magistrate and Mining Warden from Gundagai to Tumut has caused the most intense dissatisfaction in…

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The Newcastle Strike. the Mine-owners' Terms. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 2

AT the various Newcastle coal-pits yesterday official notices were posted, practically in the terms published on Thursday, informing the miners that their wages would…

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Terrible Mining Accident. a Father and Son Killed. Ballarat

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 2

A terrible accident, involving the death of Samuel Dower and Robert Dower, father and son, took place on Friday night at the Golden Gate mine, Elaine. The two…

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The Truth About our Chrome. An All Bound View. Geological Surveyor Carne on the Chrome of Gundagai. No. Iii. Keepss Mine

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1896 · page 4

BETWEEN Brungle and Bombow'e Creeks chromite has been discovered on Mr. Keefe's property, but little has been done to prove it. At this site a chromite bunch is…

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Important to Miners

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 24 June 1896 · page 2

The following circular issued by the Department of Mines end Agriculture relating to the Mining and Private Lands Acts relating to Wardens…

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