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Mining & the mines, 1901

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 7

The manager of the Grassy Gully mine, Nowra, deposited a cake of smelted gold, weighing 35oz., in the local bank. The gold was the result of a fortnight's crushing from the dump,…

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Mount Morgan. the Greatest Gold Mine Ds the World

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 6

Of the gold mines of the world, Mount Morgan is the most remarkable, whether we regard it from an industrial or from a scientific point of view…

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Mining in the Gundagai District

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 2

Mining at Mount Adrah daring the put year has been arried on with moon greater success loan previously. The number of partice prospecting in the vicinity have…

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The Band Mines

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 2

Lord Kitchener is clearing the various districts, and has lesgered the inhabitante and Fauresmith at Edenburgh…

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Mining. Mt. Adrah

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 3

Last week G. K. Cole had treated, at the Reefer Battery, 15½ tons of stone from his prospecting show on the Yabtree Estate. The proceeds…

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Collapse of the Coal Arch

The Junee Democrat · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Advertiser

SHORTLY after 9 o'clock on Saturday night the coal rich, erected by the Newcastle authorities near the Sydney Domain gates, on the route of the Commonwealth…

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The Rand Mines. Damage at Boksburg

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 2

Further details are published of the recent attack made by 200 Boers of Boksburg, a mining townsh p 12 miles south-east of Johannesburg, which it supplies with…

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The Coal Strike. Early Termination Probable Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 2

Present indicrtions now point to an early termination of the severs coillery strikes st Newcastle, which by Friday night had caused 1000 men to leave work, and it appears…

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Telegraphic. New South Wales. Gold Shipment. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 3

The following shipment of gold has been despatched by the R.M.S. Ortona:—From the deputy master's mint, one box com, value £1968, to…

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Collapse of the Coal Arch. Two Persons Injured. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 2

At about half-past 9 o'clock hat night a portion of the coal arch at the entrance to the Domain, collapood, Mr. Phillip Maher and his daughter were walking underneath…

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Mining. Albury

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 2

The warden has refused to grant the application for a further extension of the time of the suspension of labor covenants over a large tin mining area at Dora…

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The Colliery Strikes. One Thousand Men Out. Newcastle

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 2

THE strikes of miners at the Wallsend, Stockton, Dudley, and Wickham and Bullock Island collieries still continue, and present indications do not point to an early settlement…

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Collapse of the Coal Arch

Coolamon Echo · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 5

Shortly after 9 o’clock on Saturday night the coal arch, erected by the Newcastle authorities near the Sydney Domain gates, on the route of the Commonwealth…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 6

Whilst engaged in sinking a shaft at Canowindra recently, Messrs. W. J. Clarke and party unearthed some fossil remains at a depth of 54ft. from the surface. A jaw-bone of large…

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Grains of Gold

The Worker · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 7

The only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition.—Archbishop Summer. What part soever you have taken upon you…

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Mining. Grenfell

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 2

The gold taken from the Warraderry goldfield last year, and purchased by Mr. T. Dodd, was 567oz. 18dwt. 2gs., valued at £2,186. There are about 30 fossickers…

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Gold in Trees

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 4

The impoeunions men may soon be seen grappling with the monarchs of the where withal to pay his way. In the " Zeits chirift for pracische Geologic " Herr…

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The Mining Returns

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 2

The Warden has also provided us with the return of gold and other minerals won in the district during 1900. Large as the figures are they disclose a remarkable…

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Mining at Mt. Adrah

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 4

LAST week G. K. Cole had treated, at the Reefer Battery, 15½ tons of stone from his prope[?]cting show on the Yabtree Estate. The proceeds…

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