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Mining & the mines, 1899

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Our Gold Mine. the Progress of Work

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 4

ROBINSON and Rice have crushed from their mine at Long Flat, 30 tons seconds at the Prince of Wales battery, for an average of ½oz. per ton. They…

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Hows This for Gold

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 2

A nugget, weighing 168oz. of pure gold, has been found at Kurnalpi (West Australia)…

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Mining

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 2

THE mine near Junee in which Lord Berkely holds an interest, was visited by him on Monday. It was owned by several persons…

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Adelong. Mining

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 2

ON Monday last a Mr Bryant, expert for the Jembaicumbeno Company, visited this town and inspected the Bardwell's Freehold and the local…

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Perth. Friday. Serious Mining Riots

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 2

Serious rioting has taken place at Kalgoorlic, where 300 miners rushed the Brookman, Boulder, and other lenses, and removed, a quantity of ore from each, in…

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This Boer Gold Seizure. London, October 5

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 2

It has been ascertained that £80,000, not half a million, as previously reported, was recently commandeered (appropriated) whilst the gold was in transit from the Rand mines…

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Terrific Dust Storm on the Barrier. Work Suspended at the Mines

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 4

A Broken Hill telegram of Wednesday says: The town was visited by a phenomenal duststorm to-day. Contrary to the usual custom, it began very…

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West Australia. Mining Riots at Kalgoorlie. Perth, Friday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 5

Serious rioting has taken place at Kalgoorlie, where 300 miners rushed the Brookman Boulder and other leases and removed a quantity of are from each…

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Seizure of Coal. London, Oct. 8

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 10 October 1899 · page 2

It is reported that the Orange Free State authorities have seized eight hundred tens of coal belonging to the Cape Railways. Mr. Schriener promised, when the matter…

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New Gold Discovery

The Temora Star · Wednesday 11 October 1899 · page 2

SOME stir has been created at Grenfell through payable gold being reported by Messrs. Campbell, O'Connor, and party on Toohey brothers' settlement…

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Adelongk. Mining

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 11 October 1899 · page 2

On Saturday steam was got up for the first time in the small boiler at the Jennings Mine. The 6 inch pump was given a short run, and seemed to…

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Bethanga-Albury Gold Escort. a Prison Plot

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 11 October 1899 · page 2

Every fortnight the gold from Wallace's Bethanga Mines, consisting of cakes of sometimes hundreds of ounces, is brought to Albury by Mr Martin,…

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The Transvaal Crisis. Another Gold Seizure. British War Preparations. [Reuter's Telegrams] London, Oct. 10

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 October 1899 · page 2

Parliament, which has been summoned to meet on Tuesday next, for the purpose of voting the money to defray the military expenditure incurred in connection with…

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Cullinga Mining

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 14 October 1899 · page 3

Consequent upon the splendid returns of the Christmas Gift claim during the past six months, mining at [?] has revived astonishingly, and at present the…

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Mining

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 2

The Caledonian mine has just put through 40 tons of seconds stone at the Reefer Battery for a yield of 66 ozs. of gold. A further instalment of…

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Fire in a Mine

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 2

A fire was discovered in the Vale of Clyde Mine, Lithgow, on Sunday, in an old working. its extent is not yet known. The mining manger was on a visit to Sydney…

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Adelong. Monday. Fatal Mining Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1899 · page 2

A miner named Parment wan killed at the Gibraltar Consolidated Mine on Saturday night through falling down a winze 100 feet deep. It is supposed he fell off a ladder…

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Abandonment of Coal Mines. London, October 17

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 19 October 1899 · page 2

The coal mines north of Glencoe, a station a few miles from Ladysmith, have been abandoned by the British…

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A Gold Hunter's Death

The Temora Star · Saturday 21 October 1899 · page 2

THE Commissioners of Police has received a telegram from Inspector Newland, Kalgoorlie, stating that the body of a man unknown was found…

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Romance of a Mine. a Discovery That May Make Cumberland's Fortune

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 October 1899 · page 2

Quite a romance encircles a mining discovery which, says the "London Daily Mail," has recently been made on the Cumberland Hills…

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