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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines
11 stories in Southern Highlands's papers
WHAT appears to have been a deliberate and diabolical attempt to explode the Bulli Mine was fortunately discovered and frustrated on Friday night last, and probably prevented a similar catastrophe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Scotch counties in which gold is known to exist even now, are Lanarkshire and Sutherlandshire but there are also records at different times of gold-working in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENDERS are invited for the construction of a line of railway, 10 miles 53 chains long, for the Wingello Goal Mining Company, Limited, from the Southern Line near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pit-coal has been known for some hundreds of years. The discovery of its numberless products is confined, to the present century. Illuminating gas was unknown 100 years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queer things happen in Africa, no doubt; but a large amount of faith is necessary to the acceptance as exact history of an account given in the Tran[?]vaal Adecrtiser of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The history of one of the Ballarat claims called the Blacksmith's Claims, because its first owner belonged to that craft, reads like a page of romance. The blacksmith, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE aggregate yield of the Homeward Bound claim at Yalwal, since 1882, with right men At work, (says the Shoalhaven News), has reached in round numbers £27,000, of which sum nearly £12,000 has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the most remarkable wone of the present day is Miss Alics Cornwell. Born in England, she, at the age of 9, came over with her father and mother to New Zealand,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. E.T. KENNEDY, late manager, and now lessee of the Great Southern Colliery, advertises in our present issue the local agencies for the sale of the coal from the above…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following interesting report upon the state of mining in the Berrima District, was written by Mr. F. R. Wilshire, mining warden, report of the Department of mines, just…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AFATER living some time in a farming district and being accustomed to fences and lanes it seems strange to visit a proclaimed gold field and to ride for miles across open…
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