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Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 26 March 1907 · page 3

A nugget weighing 175ozs was found at the Poseidon rush on Wednesday. Mr. Robt Gregory, one of the chief…

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A Gold Robbery

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 26 March 1907 · page 2

William Hansen and John McGeehave been rach sentenced to five years amprisonment in cosnection with the attempted pied gold Tower…

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Wyalong Goldfield

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 March 1907 · page 2

The richest ore yet found at Wyalong was struck at a depth of 1,100 feet in the Brilliant shaft of the True Blue mine…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 28 March 1907 · page 11

Antimony mining is reported to be brisk at Lionsville (N.S.W.). A party of eight have formed a syndicate to work the old Pucka antimony mine…

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Sweating in the Mines. Royalty and Tributing

The Worker · Thursday 28 March 1907 · page 5

While Victorian gold-miners may perhaps earn 45s. to 50s. a week if they work full time, and anything more or less, but usually very much less, if they are on…

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Heroic Divers in a Flooded Mine. Sustain Entombed Man for Days Record Rescue in W.a

The Worker · Thursday 28 March 1907 · page 10

The annals of mining the world over shine with countless examples of splendid heroism, but those annals are surely enriched by the story of how diver F. Hughes,…

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Mining

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 2

A substantial deposit has been paid to Messrs Reekman and Frostram by a city syndicate for the purchase of their copper mine at Lobb's Hole, and it is…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 4 April 1907 · page 11

The directors of Ajax (Daylesford, V.) promises 3s. dividends in the immediate future, yet when the market closed last week for the Easter holidays buyers would offer…

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Mine Fatality

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 2

There was a terrible fatality at the Waroona mine, Kalgoorlie, yesterday. A cage was being raised, when it tilted against the skids and threw…

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Big gold Yield

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 2

The Gold yield for New South Wales ending March is valued at £157,053, the previous year being £95,470…

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Buried in a Tomb of Gold. Gorgeous Sepulchre Found at Thebes

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 4

Mr Theodore M. Davis has discovered at Thebes, the tomb of Queen Tele, one of the greatest names in the history of…

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Colliery Troubles. Boys on Strike. Two Mines Closed Down

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 2

More colliery labor troubles have arisen. At the Hebburn Colliery the wheelers claim to have been shore paid in that their wages were not made up…

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 9 April 1907 · page 3

Copper mining at Lobbs Hole has received a considerable impetus in consequence of recent visits to the field by mining experts, and the…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 11 April 1907 · page 11

Lord Nelson (St. Arnaud, V.) monthly crushing was 2275 tons, which gave, with cyanide and pyrites, 842oz. 4dwt. The Sunday School run of wash at Snake…

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Three W.a. Miners Killed

The Worker · Thursday 11 April 1907 · page 15

On Wednesday, April 3, a terrible accident, resulting in the death of three men— Owen Owens, Vincent Cntaneo, and Peter Andreloi—took place on the Waroonga mine…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 3

Mr. J. Pattisnson, manager of the Township hill alluvial mine at Kiandra, reports having driven 20ft for last week. The rock remains hard…

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Adelong. Mining

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 2

The Lady Clare Mine (Donkey Hill) crushed a parcel of stone at the Reefer Battery last week, but the result has not been made known…

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A Mining Fatality

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 2

Patrick Devitt, ex-alderman, and one of the most prominent unionists at Broken Hill, was killed at Block 10 thus morning by a fall of earth…

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Colliery Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 2

A great fire has occurred at the Pithead-Dodworth colliery, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, and 150 miners were with difficulty rescued through…

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Big Coal Combine. Ironmaster's View

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 2

A big coal combine, with a capital of a quarter of a million, is being formed in the East Midlothians (Scotland), Mr. A. F. Pease representing the Cleveland…

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