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Mining & the mines, 1905

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Russians Gold Reserve. Enormous Accumulations

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 21 March 1905 · page 2

It is officially stated at St. Petersburg that the Gold reserves in the State Bank amount to nearly £90,000,000 and the Russian gold reserve while abroad amount…

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Latest News. Revolutionary Arsenal at Moscow. Discovered by Secret Police. Headquarters of Society in London. Japanese Determination. Russian Gold Reserves London, March 19

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1905 · page 2

The secret police of Moscow have discovered a store of infernal machines, bombs, a quantity of explosives weapons, and printing presses…

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Mining. Junee Reefs Rush

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 3

On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Warden Wilkinson visitod the scene of the recent 'find' and dealt with five applications for leases. The business of pegging out the…

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Disastrous Colliery Explosions. Twenty Four Miners Killed

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 2

An explosion occurred yesterday at the Red Ash Colliery, Thurmond, West Virginia. Ten men were killed. A rescue…

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Colliery Explosion. London, March 21

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 2

The Redash colliery at Thurmond, in West Virginia, was the scene of a dreadful accident yesterday. An explosion occurred in the mine…

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Mining

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 2

On Thursday last Mr. W. H. Vale, acting for the Curtin—Daivs Proprietary Company, N.Z., of Melbourne, paid a deposit and had all the papers signed…

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Gold at a Depth

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 3

Quartz, carrying payable gold, has been struck at a depth of 4162 feet at Bendigo. It is believed this is the deepest point yet reached in the…

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Northern Coal Trade A.a. Co. Reduces Wages. an Illegal Act

The Worker · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 2

One of the most marked features of the late trouble between the coalowners and the wheelers and certain of the miners was the position of aloofness taken up by that…

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Jap versus Australian. After the War—what? the Coal-lumpers of Mogi

The Worker · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 9

Much has been written since the commencement of hostilities between Japan and Russia, not only in Australian journals, but in British and American magazines, respecting the…

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Master Magsmen. Mine Manipulators and Financial Fakirs. Scrip Sharks, Call Coppers, and Public Plunderers. Legalised Looters and Fr Eebooters

The Worker · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 3

So much has been said and written about the small fry magsmen, spiders, confidence men, and players of the great game of "Beggar My Neighbor" that the public…

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Russia's Gold Reserve. £132,800,000

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 2

M. Kokertsoff, the Finance Minister Russia, states that the Rusaian bullion reserve in St. Peterburg amounts to £88,8000,000. [?] £12,000,000…

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Mining. Byrmedman Lease

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 3

Notice is given that it is intended to declare the undermentioned goldmining lease void, and that notice of such voidance will be published in the 'Gazette'…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 3

The mining company who have secured a six-months option of the K[?]jong mine commenced development operation on Tuesday, giving…

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Gold-mining at Tarcutta

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 2

A very satisfactory report has been received regarding a parcel of goldbearing stone sent from Tarcutta to Newcastle for treatment. The…

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Illawarra Miners. the Coledale Matter

The Worker · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 6

At a well-attended meeting the other day of Coledale miners, attended also by a large number of the non-unionists, it was unanimously decided that in the best interests of…

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Kiandra Gold Discovery TUMUT

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 3

Our correspondent telegraphed as follows :— Splendid gold has been struck at Kiandra in a reef three feet wide,…

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Rich Gold Find. in the K[?]andra District

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 1 April 1905 · page 3

Kiandra, Tuesday.--A further rich development on M'Millan Brothers' Scotia gold reef has been reported. A stone weighing upwards of [?]…

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Mines Afloat

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 4 April 1905 · page 2

Owing to gales along the coast many of the Russian mines laid off Vladivostock became detached from their moorings, and have drifted to the Japanese…

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 4 April 1905 · page 2

A farther rich development on M'Millan Brothers' Scottia gold reef, Kiandra, has been reported. On Tuesday morning stone weighing…

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Mining Warden's Court. (Before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, P.M., Warden.) BURGESS V. GIFFORD

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1905 · page 3

Consideration of a complaint by T. W. W. Burgess against James Gifford, the owner of a mining tenement, under the Mining on Private Lands Act, of…

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