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Mining & the mines, 1901

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Mining

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1901 · page 2

TOUCHING the recent gold find made at the Challenger mine, the Adelong " Express " says that the reports regarding it have been greatly…

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Mining. Cullinga

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 April 1901 · page 2

The Wallendbeen Syndicate tributers in the Federal have struck a lode, or what is probably a reef, some distance west of the Gift line, which promises to…

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Debate in Parliament. Sugar and Coal Duties Voted

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 April 1901 · page 3

When Sir Michael Hicke-Beach had concluded his Budget speech, Sir William Harcourt rose and congratulated him on his lucid and honest statement. He approved of…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 26 April 1901 · page 3

The Kurrajong mine has been temporarily closed down, but work will be resumed in a week or two. The crosscut is in 52ft. A vein-channel was…

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Modern Ocean Coal Gluttons

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 26 April 1901 · page 1

During the last ten years the race for the transatlantic record has been far more interesting than in any other period, for it has been in this decade that the great…

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Lagoon Hill. Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 26 April 1901 · page 2

In my last account of the progress of this mountain goldfield I confined my references to the workings on the eastern side of the ridge, following…

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Minesland Miners

The Worker · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

The Glen Elgin dredge commenced working on the 15th inst. Mr. F. A. Dibbs, who has been on the ground for some time keeping an eye on operations…

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Grains of Gold

The Worker · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

We walk fastest when we walk alone. —Napoleon. Be not simply good; be good for something…

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Mining. Gundagai

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

In December of last year H. Groth, a practical Miner, discovered gold on Messrs. McEvoy Brothers' Turrabandra Estate, between seven and eight miles in…

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Reserve From Sale for Mining Purposes

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 4

No. 32,558, county Harden, parish Coolac, containing an area of about 300 acres. The Crown lands within the following boundaries: Commencing on the right bank of the…

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Disagreement at Gibraltar Gold Mines. a Small Strike

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

A DISAGREEMENT has arisen at the Gibraltar Gold Mines. From information we have been able to glean, it appears that the management have been…

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Fatal Mining Accident. Adelong

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

A fatal mining accident occurred yesterday to a miner named George Price, at Cheeryhill. Deceased was a native of Adelong, 29 years of age. He was procuring timber for…

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Revocation of Part of Goldfield Reserve

The Junee Democrat · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 2

BY a proclamation issued on Saturday last by the Lieutenant-Governor, the reservation for mining purposes of the land hereunder described, is revoked: Ceutrai…

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Mining. Springdale

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 May 1901 · page 2

A quartz vein of about 12 inches wide has been discovered close to the southern boundary of the Reward lease, which is reported to prospect from 15 to 20dwt…

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J. Pierpont Morgan. and the British Coal Trade

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 2

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the American millionaire, has acquired a large interest in the Leyland line of steamers. It it feared that Mr. Morgan is…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 3

Mining matters generally are very quiet. Bell and McIntyre are pushing ahead with their water scheme, and…

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Mining News

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1901 · page 2

AT Reno the Diamond Drill has now reached a depth of about 500ft, and has recently pierced some calcite and quartz veins. The latter, from the…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 2

Queen Margaret (W.A.) are meeting with highly mineralized stone in the rise over the 40ft. level, and early developments are expected…

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Short Story. in the Mine

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 4

Driftwood Creek swayed with a new sensation. Not that inviting and engaging community wanted for sensations, as a rule. No day passed…

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Mining. Burrowa

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 4 May 1901 · page 2

A well-defined copper lode is reported to have been discovered on the property held by the West Walla Mining syndicate which is composed of local shareholders…

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