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Mining & the mines, 1906

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Rich Mines

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 2

The capital value of the Broken Hill mines has improved in value for the past year from four to eight millions sterling…

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 2

Mr. E. McMillan, of McMillan Bros., proprietors of the, Scotia Mine at Kiandra, returned from a visit to Melbourne on Thursday last, after…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 2

Antimony and scheelite mining continue to be brisk at Hillgrove (N.S.W.) Jembaicumbene (N.S.W.) dredge recovered 54oz. gold for 243 hours work week…

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Northern Territory Mining Prospects. Gold, Coal, and Tin

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 3

The Government geologist of South Australia, Mr. Brown, returned to-day from the Northern Territory, whither he set out on 13th April last with the…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 2

Last year N.Z. exported 520,486oz. of gold, valued at £2,[?] The discovery of extensive deposits of fuller's earth has been near Thames…

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Mine Explosion in Japan

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 3

An explosion has occurred in a mine at Innolakita, Japan. A hundred and one persons were incinerated…

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MINING FATALlTIES

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 2

Two Italians were killed whilst mining at Leonora (West Australia) yesterday, through the explosion of a dynamite charge…

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Big Gold Out-put

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 2

The Transvaal gold output last year was valued at £20,802,074…

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Shocking Mine Fatality Three Men Buried

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 4

A shocking accident in the Vale of Coolgardie mine, Bonnivale, on Tuesday, resulted in the death of three miners, members of a tribute party…

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Victorian Gold Yield

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

Although the yield of gold in Victoria for 1905 was not so high as in 1904, it was above the average of the previous ten years, and very much…

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New South Wales. SYDNEY, Monday. MINING

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

Hunter and party of Craiglea, near Trunkey, obtained 50ozs, of smelted gold from 12lbs. of specimens. COMMITTED…

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Russia Reformers Alarmed. Exhausting the Gold Reserve. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

The decision of the French banks to grant the Russian Government a further loan has alarmed the Russian reformers who foresee a continuance of the…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 2

General Manager Delprat, of the Broken Hill Proprietary, has been elected president of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers for the current year…

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Bogus Gold Bars. Copper and Golf Leaf. Arrests for False Pretences

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 4

The arrest at Kolgoorlie (W.A.) of two men, William Sherwin and Ben. Evans, on a charge of false pretences, at Freemantle, on Monday, furnished…

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Chinese Slavery in South Africa. South African Miners Talk Straight. Monster Meeting in Johannesburg Insists upon Stoppage of Importation and Repatriation

The Worker · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 2

THE WORKER is in receipt of a special report of a monster meeting convened by the Transvaal Miners' Association, and held on Market Square, Johannesburg, on…

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The World's Gold Yield

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 2

The past two years hare witnessed a small but steady and regrettable decrease in the Australasian gold yield, though a very large increase in…

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The "Gold Plant." It Grows Where No Other Vegetation Will Exist

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1906 · page 3

On the sandy and rocky wastes of Yusatan, where nothing else in the vegetable line will grow, the henequin plant, or Mexican sisal, as it is…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 25 January 1906 · page 7

Cope's Creek sent 4 tons tin ore to Sydney last week. Associated Dredging weighs out a dividend of 3d. per share on Jan. 30th…

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New South Wales. Railway Coal Inquiry Commission, Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1906 · page 2

Messrs [?] and Fehon state that they intend to reply to the Commission's findings in regard to the western coal contracts, when they will…

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The Trunkey Gold Field

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

Hunter and party, of Craiglea, have just completed a seven ton trial crushing, which returned 123oz of smelted gold. This crashing had all the specimens…

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