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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

25 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 2

Traveller. a Trip to the Ruby Mines

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 24 January 1903 · page 6

NOW, the Inspector-General of Police looked grave when he heard that two English ladies were suggesting the possibility of…

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Sketcher the Care of Coal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 February 1903 · page 5

COAL being nowadays an article of value,it is a difficult duty on the part of every housewife to take all care of it…

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Traveller From the Goldfields of Alaska

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 February 1903 · page 5

THE winter postal service in Alaska is fully of hardships and danger in the winter of 1899 two carriers started with the mail from juneau…

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Varieties the World Coal Supply

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 25 February 1903 · page 6

ACCORDING to a return just issued the total coal production of the united kingdom during last year was 219,047,7000 tons the total…

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American Miners on Strike

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 March 1903 · page 6

The employee! on tome of the Virginian (soft coal) mines, to the number of 250 men, have gone out on strike, and occasioned a serious disturbance at…

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Mining Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 March 1903 · page 1

Broken Hill, Friday.James callaghan,35 miner,who was employed at the junction mine at the 775ft level,lost his life through a blasting accident…

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Gold Declining in Value

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 11 March 1903 · page 4

Until recent times both gold and silver have been used as measures of values, says Mr. C. L. Redfield in the " Engineering Magazine, " and…

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Traveller. Turquoise Mining

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 March 1903 · page 5

FROM earliest ages the gem now known as the turquoise, has re-tained, an enviable popularity and at then present time it still…

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Powdered Coal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 April 1903 · page 5

A great deal, of interest has been aroused in railway circle in England by the possibility of using powdered "coal on locomotives, and thus doing away with all…

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Lost in a Shale Mine

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 2

Ratoombs, Monday. -Great excitement prevailed at the mines ruined Castle when it became known that Mr. M'Millco, one of the managers, and…

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Coal Won by Ice

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 18 April 1903 · page 4

To freeze the way down to fuel which is to banish cold sounds absurd, but it is at least a "slim" way of circumventing the enemy;…

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Hidden Gold

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 22 April 1903 · page 2

Melbourne, Monday.—The removal of a quantity of earth at the base of a tree in a paddock in Woodford, in the Warrnambool district, by the recent…

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Football. Mittagong v, Moss Vale. a Brilliant Victory for the Gold and Blue

The Mittagong Argus · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 3

Hurrah ! hurrah, our colors are gold and blue ; Hurrah! hurrah, the ball we’ll carry through ;…

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New Gold Discovery

The Southern Mail · Friday 12 June 1903 · page 3
Also in Robertson Advocate

A new gold discovery has been made about five miles from Tuena, in a creek in the mountains Several parties pegged out claims early on…

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Closing Down of the Joadja Mines

The Mittagong Argus · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 3

After successfully working for over a quarter of a century, the famous Joadja Shale Mines ceased operations last Saturday. The closing down of…

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Meerschaum Mines of Anatolia

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 14 October 1903 · page 4

In a recant number of the "Journal" issued by the Society of Arts there was published au admirable article upon the rich deposits of meerschaum found…

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The Tongarra Coal Mine

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 3 November 1903 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

At last meeting of the Shellharbor Council, a letter was read from Mr. Percy Owen, who is opening up a coal mine on his property at Tongarra,…

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Correspondence. Mittagong Coal. (To the Editor.)

The Mittagong Argus · Saturday 7 November 1903 · page 2

Sir,—As some doubt existed, and still Exists, that the Diamond Drill bore put down on the Mittagong Land Company’s property here did…

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