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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Mining Difficulties at Klondyke

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 27 May 1898 · page 4

A CANADIAN barrister, with a personal knowledge of the goldfield on the River Yukon, contributes to a London magazine some details as to the methods of…

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Mine Salting

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 15 June 1898 · page 4

The methods of salting adopted are almost as various as the mines doctored. The simplest, and probably one of the earliest, means of salting in the case of gold mines…

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West Australian Gold Yield

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1898 · page 3

A STATISTICAL, statement has been issued by the West Australian Mines Department, dealing with the year 1897. It shows that during last year 415,942…

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Mining and Agriculture

Moruya Examiner · Friday 24 June 1898 · page 2

PERHAPS nothing is more remarkable in the history of tins colony than the way leading items of export have been politically neglected. We are not of those who…

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Coal in China

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1898 · page 4

AN item of English mail news may be [?] the serious attention of [?] or indirectly connected with the coal industry of New South…

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Rough Notes on a Visit to the Ya[?]wal Goldfields

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 July 1898 · page 2

"Two lessons, Nature, let me learn of thee— Two blending duties harmonised in one; Of toll unsever[?]d from tranquility: Of labour…

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Wolumla Gold Fields. (From our Correspondents.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 July 1898 · page 2

WHAT has been asked for, and coming so long, has just been started in the form of making the road to the field, contractor Curran and his men having started the…

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Mining Notes

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 30 July 1898 · page 4

The Fanvel Gold Recovery Company has been registered in London with a capital of £150,000. The process claims patent rights for automatic roasting, the heat of the…

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A Yalwai Mining Appeal. Banco Court No. 2. (Before their Honors Mr Justice Stephen and Mr Justice Cohen.)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 6 August 1898 · page 2

Ex parte Francis William King, prohibition. Last Tuesday, in the above court, this case was heard. Sir Julian Salamons, Q.C., and Mr Ralston, instructed by Mr A. Nicholson…

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Help for the Mining Industry

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 August 1898 · page 4

THE news which has reached this Bide from Johannesburg to the effect that large caverns, foil of water have been struck at Zuur[?]kom, yielding an…

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A Gold Diggers Job

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 3 September 1898 · page 4

Some men always expect the worst to happen. These men get more joy than other out of good luck. On the contrary, there are other men who look continually…

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Four Barrels of Gold

Moruya Examiner · Friday 9 September 1898 · page 2

Once a man of the labouring class who had often wished to be rich was offered all the money he wished for if he would accept, without a murmur, the troubles and…

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Four Barrels of Gold

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 4

ONCE a man of the laboring class who had often wished to be rich was offered all the money he wished for if he would accept without a murmur, the troubles and…

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The Coal Crisis. Ten Thousand Men Involved

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 October 1898 · page 2

INDICATIONS at Newcastle point to a serious crisis in the coal trade, a situation evolved out of the conditions in the general agreement for the regulation of the trade…

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News from Klondike. Two Tons of Gold

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 October 1898 · page 2

THE latest Klondike news brought by the steamer Moana, which arrived in Sydney from San Francisco on Sunday last, states that the Steamer Michael reached San…

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The Coal Trade Difficulty

Moruya Examiner · Friday 14 October 1898 · page 2

THE situation, in Newcastle alternates between gloom and hope. Should another struggle take place between the mine owners and the men the result must be…

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Wolumla Gold Field

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 November 1898 · page 2

THOUGH a [?] of gold is being obtained on [?] there as [?] or no stir. The [?] Gold Mining [?]…

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A Visit to Mount Morgan. a Mountain of Gold

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 November 1898 · page 2

Probably no mine in the world possesses so many features of interest as Mount Morgan. Geologists and practical miners are puzzled, and make vague guesses as to the reason of the…

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Colliery Disaster. Three Miners Entombed. Greta

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 November 1898 · page 2

A TERRIBLE colliery disaster occurred at East Greta, at 7 this morning, when three miners named David Gronow, leader of the shift. Berlin Monteith, and Steven…

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The Lust For Gold. Terrible Story of a Prospector

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 November 1898 · page 2

A TALE of horrible suffering, ending in a tragic suicide, is brought by the mail steamer Warrimoo, which arrived from Vancouver on Friday. A young…

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