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South Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1899

189 stories in South Coast's papers · page 9 of 10

Mining

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 9 November 1899 · page 3

Application made by J. Wright in Sept. last year for gold-mining lease, 2a. lr. 6p. (portion. No. 32), Yalwal, has been approved…

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Mining

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 9 November 1899 · page 4

Tenders have been accepted by the Charleyong Dredging Company for 20 tons of loading for Nelligen. Considerable drawing is going on in…

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A Miner’s Claim. Keir’s Shaft at Grassy Gully

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 9 November 1899 · page 2

Patrick Balover sued William Keir in the Nowra Court yesterday for the recovery of a sum of money due on a contract for the sinking of a shaft on…

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Dredging for Gold. Possibilities of the Shoalhaven. (Daily Telegraph, Oct. [?])

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 9 November 1899 · page 4

Mining has its fashions, like everything else. Whim gold was first discovered in Australia about half a century ago, but one motioned was employed to win it, vis.,…

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Mining

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1899 · page 2

Tenders are invited by notice in this issue for the drawing of stone from Grassy Gully to Bomaderry. The boilers just landed for the…

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Mining

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 15 November 1899 · page 2

Messrs. T Stuart and party are sinking a new shaft on their claim at Major’s Creek, and have it timbered about 40ft. They have their new machinery nearly…

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Mining

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 16 November 1899 · page 2

Messrs. T. Stuart and party are sinking a new shaft on their claim at Major’s Creek, and have it timbered about 40th. They have their new machinery nearly…

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Mining

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 3

The Shoalhaven River Dredging Company has accepted a tender by the Clyde Engineering Company for the construction of a dredge and machinery…

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Mining Appeal Case. Be Falkner’s G.M. Company, M’kinnery Respondent

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 November 1899 · page 2

IN Banco, on Thursday, before the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Stephen and Mr Justice Cohen, an application was made by Mr O’Connor, Q C., and Mr. Pring…

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Mining

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 23 November 1899 · page 2

E. T. Brissenden has applied for permission to mine for tin on 80a., part of camping reserve, Lankey Creek, county Goulburn…

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Mining

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 2

Mining surveyors are very busy on the Upper Shoalhaven just now.C. St. Clair and John Ebsworth have applied for a water race and water…

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Mining

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 29 November 1899 · page 4

The Mount Lyell Co., Tasmania, have now raised their dividend from 4s. to 5s. per quarter. Mr. A. Chapman, M.L.A., is urging…

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Grassy Gully Mining

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 29 November 1899 · page 2

At the Prospecting claim good stone continues to be won, fully up to the standard of the last crushing. This is being taken from the bottom of the…

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Mining

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 30 November 1899 · page 4

The Mount Lyell Co., Tasmania, have now raised their dividend from 4s. to 5s. per quarter. Mr. A. Chapman, M.L.A., is urging…

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Grassy Gully Mining

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 30 November 1899 · page 2

At the Prospecting claim good stone continues to be won, fully up to the standard of the last crushing. This is being taken from the bottom of the…

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Gold-dredging Operations

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 December 1899 · page 2

Messrs. Tulloch and Huhan's dredge in Araluen was thoroughly completed last week and a trial run made on Saturday, when everything worked in…

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Mining. Gold Dredging

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 6 December 1899 · page 2

Shareholders in the St. Vincent Gold Dredging Company, Shoalhaven River, elected provisional directors at a meeting held in Nowra on Saturday…

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Water Eats Gold

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 December 1899 · page 2

It is not generally known, even in California, that millions of dollars in glittering gold are annually taken from rude heaps of base-looking quartz by the gentle flowing of crystal water…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 6 December 1899 · page 2

A miner named Muffet was killed in an explosion which occurred in the workings of the Oallen Mining Company on a claim known as Blacket’s on Wednesday…

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Mining. Gold Dredging

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 7 December 1899 · page 2

Shareholders in the St. Vincent Gold Dredging Company, Shoalhaven River, elected provisional directors at a meeting held in Nowra on Saturday…

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