Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1897

226 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 12

The Temora Deep Lead Gold Mining Company

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 August 1897 · page 4

The objects of the company are to lake over front the protein owner, all that alluvial claim known as Stout and party's situated at Upper Temora and containing an…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Nugget of Gold Ore

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 August 1897 · page 6

"THAT," said my friend in reply to a question of mine, " is a very large and very rich nugget or gold ore. It was taken many years ago from a mine in Australia."…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

The Great Gold Rush in Canada. a Woman on the Arctic Field

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 August 1897 · page 6

Mrs Clarence Berry picked up ten thousand dollars on the Klondike as easily as a hen picks up grains of corn in a barnyard. She picked it up in shining golen grains and…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Mining. Cooma

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 4 September 1897 · page 5

Tuesday : Consequent on some stone containing very good prospects of gold being found near the Cooma railway station, there was great excitement yesterday evening, and…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Mining, Wyalong

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1897 · page 5

The Australian Star party has out a reef in its underlay from the 70ft., a few feet west of the eastern shaft, at the 100ft. level. It transpires that a party had previously cut…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Lucknow Miners' Strike. Proposed Arbitration

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 September 1897 · page 5

A deputation consisting of Messrs Backhouse, M.L.C., J. Cook (Postmaster-General Sleath, Haynes, Cann, Bavister, Travers Jones, R. Jones, Dick Waddell, J. C. T…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Mining at Pullitop

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1897 · page 2

IT will be remembered that recently Messrs. Peterson and Spent Bros, experienced miners from Charters Towers (Q.), purchased a mining property at Pullitop, which had…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

The Lucknow Mine Strike

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 4

STRIKE pay was issued to the miners on strike at Lucknow on Friday, the married men being paid 30s. each and the single men £1. Mr. Lock, the superintendent of the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Pullitop Mining

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 2

Gold mining prospects at Pullitop after a lenthened period of depression drifting at last into absolute slaenation and virtual cessation of work are, thanks to the advent…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Serious Fire at Broken Hill. Proprietary Mine Ablaze. Three Men Killed; Fifty Rendered Insensible

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 2

ANOTHER serious fire broke out on Sunday at the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill. Between 6 and 7 o'clock, Carroll and Bolitho, two shift bosses, and a watchman in Block…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mining. Bywong

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 September 1897 · page 3

Saturday : A rush is likely to set in at Nanima, as men from as far as West Australia are already upon the ground. No "poor man" should go to the field for the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Gold Craze in California. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 September 1897 · page 4

Despatches from San Francisco under date 19th August by the mail steamer Alameda show that the excitement there about Klondyke is still at fever best. Every…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Broken Hill Mine Fire. a Re-assuring Position

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 16 September 1897 · page 2

THE work of endeavouring to get at and extinguish the fire in the Broken Hill Proprietary Mine has been continued vigorously, and the outlook is now very re-assuring…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Arctic Gold Held Yukon River Frozen £1000 for a Sack of Flour. London, 13Th September

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 16 September 1897 · page 4

The Yukon River is now completely frozen and the stream is now longer navigable. There is consequently no possibility of sending supplies of food to the Klondyke gold fields…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Gold Rush in Canada. the Hatching of Wild Schemes. Serious Loss of Life. Remarkable Scenes on the Road. San Francisco, August 19

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 September 1897 · page 3

Since my last the excitement and feverish haste to reach the now famous gold diggings on the Klondyke River in the Yukon country have is no wise subsided. In fact the wild…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Klondyke Goldfields. Terbible Sufferings

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1897 · page 4

THE Californian papers received by the American mail in Sydney on Monday are full of news concerning the stampede towards Knoldyke. Ex-Governors of states…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Mining. Gundagai

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 22 September 1897 · page 4

Saturday: Negotiations were closed to-day for valuable mining property at South Gundagai by a Melbourne syndicate. About 7 o'clock on Friday morning a…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Lucknow Strike. Miners From Bendigo the Position Unchanged. Bathurst

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 23 September 1897 · page 4

A large number of miners bound for Luck[?] arrived by mail train at Kelso this morning where Mr. Tarleton the Sydney representative of the Wentworth Company…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Booths' United Gold Mines

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1897 · page 2

THE claim formerly known as Bo[?]ths Reward claim, Coolac, has been formed into a strong company under the above title. For some time past it has been proved and known to be a…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mining Reefton

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 5

The Enterprise claim has just cleaned up 75 tops of stone for 79oz, of retorted gold. Gormley and party are raising stone of excellent quality from 90ft. The reef averages…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →