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Mining & the mines, 1903

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Pa's Pipe and Mine

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 2 January 1903 · page 6

Sometimes, just 'fore I go up to bed, My pa says to me with a smile, "Well, what do you say To a half-hour's play?…

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Mining Mems

Coolamon Echo · Friday 2 January 1903 · page 4

With the dawning of 1903 matters in the mining world, so far as this part of the Commonwealth is concerned promises to receive a fair amount of…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 3

All tanks at Gilgunnia are overflowing and water for crushing purposes is ensured for some time to come. The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway…

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Grains of Gold

The Worker · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 5

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.—Goldsmith. Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.—Lord Burghley…

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Late Mining

The Worker · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 5

The Broken Hill Proprietary Company shipped for the week ended Dec. 24 to Port Pirie 199 tons of oxidised ores and 2361 tons of mill products, including…

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A Colliery on Fire. Fifty-eight Persons Killed. London, Tuesday Afternoon

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 5

Telegrams from Russia report a fearful calamity at Uspensk. A large colliery there was discovered to be on fire whilst hundreds of persons were in the…

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America's Prosperity Enormous Gold Reserves. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 2

The Treasury of the United States, which has had several huge successive surpluses, has been accumulating gold reserves at a rapid rate. The Treasurer…

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Gold Find at Cowabbie. Five Ounces to the Ton

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1903 · page 6

On Friday, 18th inst. (says the "Narandera Argus" of Wednesday), Mr. Gr[?]venor Flood brought into the Commercial Banking Company the result of the first…

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Mining. Wyalong

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1903 · page 2

Operations are again in full swing at the principal claims, and the batteries are keeping fully supplied with material. From their last crushing the Barrier…

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Mining. Our, Asbestos Deposits

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1903 · page 2

QUITE recently the "Tumut Times" took us to task over lack of enterprise in developing our mineral resources, but particularly our asbestos deposits…

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Gibraltar Consolidated Gold Mines. i Story of Persevering Effort to Put the Company on a Paying Basis the Gibraltar

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 9 January 1903 · page 3

THE third ordinary general meeting of this company was held at Cannon Street Hotel London, E.C., on Tuesday. Mr. A. Hoffnung (chairman of…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 6

The bismuth-silver-lead ore of Duckmaloi, near Oberon, is receiving attention at present. The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co…

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Colliery Accidents

The Worker · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 5

The following are the terms of the letter forwarded by Mr. May to the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation:—"Referring to my letter of March…

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Grains of Gold

The Worker · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 3

Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.—Wm. Hazlitt. Agitation is the method that plants the school by the side of the ballot-box.—…

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Mount Kembla Colliery Disaster. the Royal Commission

The Worker · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 4

The Royal Commission appointed by the Government to inquire into the cause of the explosion which occurred at the Mount Kembla Colliery on July 31 last, resulting…

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Gold Rush at Kiandra

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 2

The mining warden at Cooma reports that a rush to the Nine Mile, near Kiandra, has occurred. Some parties appear to be making wages or better, but others…

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Illawarra Miners' Case the Award Criticised

The Worker · Saturday 10 January 1903 · page 8

A prominent Trade Unionist who was interviewed on Monday (says the "Daily Te legraph") with regard to the recent Arbitration case and the delegates' proposals,…

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Yorkshire Colliery Trouble. Wholesale Evictions. the Miners Determined. London, Sunday Afternoon

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 2

The colliery troubles at Denaby, Yorkshire, still continue, and up to the present 750 families of the miners on strike have been evicted from their homes…

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Gibraltar Mines

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 2

The following returns were obtained from the tributers' crushings in December 1902. - J. Ross & J. Cochiane, 210z 14dwts, of gold from 20¾ tons stone; W…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Tuesday 13 January 1903 · page 2

It will be interesting to our readers to learn that at present the new acquisitions of the Gibraltar Company, let on tribute, are returning good…

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