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Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

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Mining. Pyritous Ore Foe Cockle Creek

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

The Challenger Mine, Adelong Proprietary Mine (M. Bruce and party tributers), Scheme and party, and W. Merryfull, all have parcels of pyritous…

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Telegraphic. New South Wales. Coal for China. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 3

A private letter from [?] states that the Admiralty Office has been adv[?] on the home papers for a steamer to carry 4000 tons of coal from…

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Mining. Jennings' Mine

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 2

THE dredge at the Jonnings' Mine is now fairly into the wash and has got within 2ft. of the bottom, which it is anticipated, will be reached in the…

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Cullinga Mines

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 2

Over 100 ounces of retorted and smeltel gold left Cootamandra last week. It is the proceeds mostly of the Cullinga mines…

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Gold in Klondyke

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 3

A nugget of gold, weighing 77lbs and valued at about 137,000, has been found in Klondyke, Alaska…

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Mining News

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 2

Our mining correspondent writes:— On the Bushman's line of reef, Harford is still raising ore from his claim; 5 tons 12cwt were recently crushed at the…

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Mount Adrah News. Mining

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 2

REGARDING mining operations in these parts, we are still delving away at the reefs, principally following up odd colors of gold by looming, but alas, our hopes…

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Grains of Gold

The Worker · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 2

The only way to have a friend is to be one.—Emerson. Death is not half so horrible as life lived wrongly…

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The Queen's Gold Plate

The Temora Star · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 2

The Queen is the owner of a great quantity of almost priceless gold plate, the accumulated treasure of successive sovereignties. This plats is stored at…

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Mining. Coolac, May 26

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 3

BOOTH'S UNITED—No. 1 level, risen 6 feet, total 36; ore in rise and stopes same value as last week. No. 2 level north, driven 6 feet, total 11; ore 2 feet…

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Gibraltar Mine

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 2

The report of the Gibraltar Consolidated Gold Mines for 1899. which is now in process of digestion by the shareholders (says our London…

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Mining. Applications

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 2

GEORGE Norton Halloran, of Sydney, is applying for suspension of work on Lease No. 687, being portions Nos. 4 to 28, parish of Calafat Wvundham…

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Colonial Gold Return

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 6 June 1900 · page 2

Gold totalling 17,636 ounces was raised in the colony during last month, being an increase of 2995 ounces as compared with the corresponding…

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Mining. Cullinga, Saturday. the Gift

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 6 June 1900 · page 2

The new shaft has been completed, a whip erected, and preparations made for hauling ore from it. During the week a few specimens have…

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Gold Importation

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 7 June 1900 · page 3

A return prepared by the Customs department showa that the gold imported into the colony during May aggregated £248,708, of which all but £100,000 was bullion. The…

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New South Wales. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, Wednesday. the Export of Gold

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 June 1900 · page 2

The mail steamer Moana, which Railed to-day for San Francisco, took away gold valued at £150,000. A PRIEST'S LINEL CASE…

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The War Through R[?] Agency. Pretoria Occupied. Progress of General Hunter. an Unopposed March. Dutch Warship at Delagoa Bay. Departure of Mrs. Reitz. with £150,000. Afbikander Congress. Boer Shipment of Gold. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 7 June 1900 · page 2

The British have seized the dynamite factory at Modder[?] 25 miles south-east of Pretoria. It is reported that Commandant de la…

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Mining. a New Gold-savang Appliance

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 4

A small party of interested persons visited Clyde on Monday, at the invitation of the Webster Gold Elutriating Company of Australia, to witness a…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 5

Sixteen miles of the railway at Chillagoe have been completed. Another rich reef has been discovered at Woodlark Island, New Guinea…

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Grains of Gold

The Worker · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 2

A landless man is an unfree man.— Ancient Saxon Proverb. "Be a lamp in the chamber, if you cannot be a star in the sky!"…

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