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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

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The Balmaih Coal Mine. Sydney Stock Journal. Chapter II

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Wednesday 20 November 1901 · page 1

By the time this is in print I hope they will have struck the coal at the bottom of the Balmain shaft. As soon as they do there will be a lot of talk about the coal,…

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The Balmain Coal Mine. Sydney Stock Journal. Chapter 8

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 27 November 1901 · page 4

When they strike the coal at Balmain, all the country will be discussing the nature and the origin of coal. Most of my readers must have a fair idea by this time of what coal is and how…

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The Balmain Coal Mine. Sydney Stock Journal. Chapter 4

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 4 December 1901 · page 1

The idea of quoting Father Curran is a bit of a novelty, but, having once started on it, the results have pleased me greatly. He is a better writer than I am, and he…

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Mining Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 December 1901 · page 1

Albury, Saturday Afternoon.—An accident happened yesterday at Betharga Gold Mines Company's mine in Victoria, when a fall of lode…

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A Mining Boom

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 18 December 1901 · page 1

Information is to hand of preparations on a gigantic capitalistic scale in London for a mighty mining boom in South Africa. Sixty of the biggest…

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