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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1892

14 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Amended Boundaries of Goulburn and Berrima. Mining Divisions

The Scrutineer · Friday 29 January 1892 · page 4

The boundaries of the Goulburn mining division proclaimed on the 11th September, 1891, and those of the Berrima division proclaimed on June 6th, 1890, have been…

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Down South. No. 5.—The Pa[?] Goldfield

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 30 January 1892 · page 4

A LITTLE more than two years ago the neighbouring [?]rmers would have hardly fenced in, at a gift, what is now the seat of the Painbula Goldfield. a suspession of steep rocky ridges and deep gullies…

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Important Mining Operations

The Scrutineer · Tuesday 9 February 1892 · page 4

Few people are aware perhaps of the importance and magnitude of the mining operations being carried on at Bungonia. There is every presp[?] of a rich mining centre being established there. Mr…

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Better than a Gold Mine

The Scrutineer · Friday 12 February 1892 · page 4

Few people realise the immense wealth which its being dug out of the Proprietary Mine at Broken Hill. A ton of silver every day! It is a veritable Bonanza. The…

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Better Than a Gold Mine

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 13 February 1892 · page 3

FEW people realise the immense wealth which is being made out of the Proprietory Mine at Broken Hill. A ton of silver every day! It is a veritable Bonanza. The thirteenth half-yearly meeting of the…

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Bundanoon. MINING

The Scrutineer · Friday 26 February 1892 · page 3

This little township is at present in a great state of excitement, caused by the report that our mines are going to start at once. A Melbourne syndicate is negotiating for the purchase of Mr. Tooth's mine…

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Better than a Gold Mine

The Scrutineer · Tuesday 1 March 1892 · page 4

Few people realise the immense wealth which is being made out of the Proprietary Mine at Broken Hill. A ton of silver every day! It is a veritable Bonnanza. The…

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Terrible Mining Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 9 March 1892 · page 3

A TERRIBLE mining, disaster occurred on 7th January, in a mine near Krebs, in Indian territory, United States. At 5 o'clock in the evening, just before the day…

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Who Owns the Gold?

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 2

AT the close of a raining inquiry at Temora, before Mr. Warden Baker, the warden remarked that it seeded that a very common idea existed that the gold found on a…

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Berrima District Mining Report

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Friday 8 July 1892 · page 2

Mining matters in the division under my charge have been very slack during the past twelve months. Regarding goal-mining—beyond some extensive operations by several companies on the…

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Sinking for Coal at Mittagong

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 30 July 1892 · page 3

IN reference to calling for tenders for sinking a twelve feet shaft to the coal on the property of the Mittagong Land Company, we (the Mittagong Express) waited on Mr. E. G. Larkin (the company's…

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The Mittagong land Company. Sinking for Coal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Tuesday 2 August 1892 · page 2

The company have accepted the tender of Mr. D. Bradshaw, of Sydney, but the amount of such has not yet been disclosed. This will be welcome news, inasmuch as the…

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A Visit to the Araluen Gold Fields

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 10 August 1892 · page 4

THERE are many alluvial gold-fields, once bustling with the excitement incidental to "rushes," that have settled down into semi-pastoral and agricultural towns or quiet villages, whose buildings show…

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Coal

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 31 December 1892 · page 2

So far as the coal is concerned, it is there no doubt, and it is scarcely possible to overestimate the influence it would have on the prosperity of the district if it is…

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