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South Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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Miss Roosevelt. the U.s. Army's Present. a Rifle Made of Gold

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 7

From Washington on 5th February, the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:— It is announced to-day that Dr…

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Gold Hidden in India

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 May 1906 · page 2

It would be an [?]to all mankind if the states of gold now held by individuals in [?]be made available [?]…

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Progress in Mining

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 May 1906 · page 2

Perhaps in no line of human effort have modern developments brought more striking results than in mining. Lecturing the other day on modern…

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Gold From a Mud Lake. the Man on the Spot

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 2

Some comic letters, written on the banks of a lake of mud in the Republic of Colombia, South America, by the managing director of a treasure-seeking…

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Little River Gold

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 17 May 1906 · page 2

The “Express” slates that Nicholson and Moore on Thursday deposited in Braid wood a cake of smelted gold, weighing 49oz., being a return front 50…

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Gold From a Mud Lake. the Man on the Spot

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 6

Some comic letters, written on the banks of a lake of mud in the Republic of Colombia, South America, by the managing director of a treasure-seeking…

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Turning Iron Into Gold

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 4

The "Financial Times" (says "The English Mechanic") gives currency to a story, according to which a genial Glasgow doctor has discovered how to…

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Wolumla Gold Mines, Ltd. (From our Correspondent.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1906 · page 4

Mr. Chappie, general malinger of the Wolumla Gold Mines Ltd., is busily engaged constricting tramways to work [?] on the mine…

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The Courrieres Mine. Causes of the Disaster

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 30 May 1906 · page 2

Writing from Paris on the night of 14th March the correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" reports:—Pending the results of the judicial and…

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Labor in Cold Mines. Australian Prospector's Story

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1906 · page 7

On 21 March the London "Daily Telegraph" wrote:— If you keep on asserting an error often enough anD strongly enough it stands…

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Nerrigundaii Mining Division of the Southern Mining Disrict. Description

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 13 June 1906 · page 2

Part of the county of Dumpier: Commencing at the intersection of the northernmost boundary of the parish of Wandellow with the…

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Gobargo and Nerrigundah Mining Divisions

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 13 June 1906 · page 2

By proclamation in the Government "Gazelte" of the June, l906, the boundaries of the Cobargo and Nerrigundah Mining Divisions,…

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Elysium Gold Mines (Limited.) Chapter I.

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 7

Will Guthrie sat at Ms breakfast table in his dingy lodgings gating thoughtfully at a letter which the postman had just delivered. A somewhat bitter smile…

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N. S. W. Mining Exhibition

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1906 · page 3

Dear Sir,—In connection with the publication of the Mines and Minerals of New South Wales, to be issued ill connection with…

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Promising Gold Yields

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 12 July 1906 · page 2

A message from Morays states that returns just to hand from two tons of ore sent by Little Brothers, of Mornya, to the Cockle Creek melting works…

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Beach Mining

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 19 July 1906 · page 2

W. Webster, of Ballina, has applied for a gold dredging. lease of 50 acres, about one-third of a mile north of Black Head, facing the sea, about one…

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"Spotted Fever" Epidemic. Among German Miners

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 25 July 1906 · page 12

The Dusseldorf correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 1st May:— An epidemic of "spotted fever," or…

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The South Coast. Brisk Coal Trade

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 4

Authorities state that during the past twenty years the Illawarra coil trade has not been so brisk as it is at present, and there is said to be every…

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South Coast Gold. the Wagonga Felsite Lode

The Bega Budget · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 3

PUNKALLA, Saturday.-Auriferous ruining is continued at several points along the lower South Coast, from Yalwal, on the…

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Flooded Colliery. Entombed Mines. Graphic Story of Escape

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 7

All hope for the recovery of the six miners entombed in the flooded colliery of Cardoc Vale, Hendreforgan, is now, reports the "Daily News" of 28th June,…

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