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Mining & the mines, 1901

488 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 25

Mining

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1901 · page 3

IN mining generally a steady progress is being made. On the Turn o' the Tide, G. Collingridge and party have succeeded in getting the water out after…

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Visit of the Minister for Mines

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 2 April 1901 · page 2

On Thursday, last the Hon. J. L. Fegan. Minister for Mines, visited Adelong, and met and discussed with many miners and other…

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Latest News. Return to the Mines. London, Tuesday afternoon

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 April 1901 · page 2

In consequence of Sir Alfred Milner's recent expression of concurrence in the contention of the Ontlanders' committes that a steady resumption of mining operations on the Rand…

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Hidden Gold

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 3

Gold for various reasons disappears rapidly in all countries, but nowhere also does it pass out of sight be rapidly as in India and China. So rapidly does the…

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Mining in the Tumut District

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 2

ON the 23rd ultimo we paid a Visit to Broken Cart Reef, and found the syndicate owning the property busily engaged in tunnelling and getting a…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 2

Craven's Caledonia Tributers (C.T.) have crushed 87 3/4 tons for 100oz. gold. New Golden Gate (Tas.) has crushed 500 tons, and obtained 669oz. amalgam…

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Hidden Gold

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 16

Gold for various reasans disappears rapidly in all countries, but nowhere else does it pass out of sight so rapidly as in India and China. So rapidly does the…

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Grains of Gold

The Worker · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 2

Reform delayed is revolution begun. No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.—Beecher. Experience discovers the shorter way…

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Mining. Cullinga

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 2

During the week what promises to be something above the average was met with by Ivy and party at the foot of Clark's hill, at a depth of 40ft. The reef…

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Modern Ocean Coal Gluttons. Remarkable Appetites of Great Losers

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 8

In the last ten years the race for the Trans-Atlantic record has been far more interesting than in any other per[?], for it was been in this decade that the…

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Mining

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 2

DONELLY and party, from the Mistletoe Bough Mine, crushed a parcel of 55½ tons at the battery of the Sybil Mine, Renc, for a gross yield of 13,05[?]…

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Shepardstown. Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 1

The party of men who are working part of the property owned by the Jennings Co. on tribute have bottomed on fairly good wash…

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Rich Find in Challenger Mine

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 12 April 1901 · page 3

IT is pleasing to bo able to inform our readers that the party working the above company's mine struck a rich vein of gold in a reef nearly 2ft. wide…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 2

At the second general meeting of the Lawn Hill Mining Company, held at 10 O'Connell-street on March 29, Mr. W. H. Armstrong in the chair, the report…

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Grains of Gold

The Worker · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 2

Death comes even amid pleasure and repose.—Mencius. Knowledge may not bring courage. New-born calves don't fear tigers…

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More Colliery Trouble. a Miner Compelled to Leave

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 3

"This is the true story of how I came to leave the old Bulli colliery," said Mr Robert Spinks, via ber contractor and orchards, Bulli, to a reporter who wished…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 2

It 13 currently reported that negotiations are on the [?] of completion for the purchase of the Jennings Mine and gold-sluicing machinery at…

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The Strike in the Challenger mine

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 3

REGARDING the chute of gold met with in the Challenger Mine last week and briefly noted in our last issue, we are informed that splendid gold was…

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Victoria. Gold Return. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 2

A return has been prepared by the Mines Department showing that the Victorian gold yield for March was 79,214[?]. or 8092[?] in excess of the…

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Local and General News MINING

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 2

There was quite a flutter of excitement in the town on Thursday evening last, on account of news flying around that the Challenger…

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