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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1898

716 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 36

Mining at the Turon

National Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1898 · page 2

A correspondent writes to say that a good deal of feeling has been created on the Turon at the proposed "grab" of the river bed and course for dredging purposes by a large…

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The Yukon Gold Fields. Trouble Between Canada and the States. London

National Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1898 · page 3

A denial has been given to the report that United States troops had been ordered to lower the Canadian flag, which was recently hoisted at the White Pass,…

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The Burraga Copper Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 7

Comparing the surface plant on this property with that of many other copper mines, one marvels how so much copper has been produced to pay with such an outfit, obsolete in every way…

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Mining News

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 4

The Mt. David return for the past month's crushing is given at 313oz. retorted gold, from 400 tons of stone. A meeting of shareholders in the Cobar Mining…

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Mining Brevities

The Gulgong Advertiser and Western Districts Representative · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 8

The monthly escort from Sofala on Tuesday LUST took 370[?]Z of gold. Very few miners are at work at at Cudgebegong. Alluvial gold is…

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A Meeting of Colliery Proprietors. SYDNEY

National Advocate · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 3

A meeting of Colliery Proprietors in the colony was held this afternoon, to consider the question of the existing method of weighing. It was resolved to…

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Mining. the Shellback

The Gulgong Advertiser and Western Districts Representative · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 8

The ShellbacK co. cleaned up on Saturday last, the result being a return of 2ozs per ton. The stone was taken from No. 3 shaft. The co, has…

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The Coal Companies and the Weighing Clause. Deputation to the Minister

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 5

Yesterday nearly all the colliery proprietors of the Northern, Southern, and Western districts were represented at a conference held in Sydney to consider the rece it decision regarding the weighing provision…

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The Yukon Goldfields. Trouble Between Canada and the United States. the British Ambassador Intervenes. London

National Advocate · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 3

Sir Julian Pauncefoote, British Ambassador at Washington, has promised President M'Kinley to satisfactorily adjust the trouble with regard to the…

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Mine Concentrates

National Advocate · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 3

The manager of the Ballarat Co. reports that only three feet has been sunk during the week. Water is making at the rate at 8000 gallons an hour…

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A Colliery Difficulty. SYDNEY

National Advocate · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 3

A deputation representing the collieries of the colony waited on the Minister for Mines to-day, to ask that certain concessions with regard to the weighing…

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Mine Concentrates

National Advocate · Monday 14 March 1898 · page 2

The crushing of 39 tons of Tarcombe ore just completed gave the satisfactory yield of 53 ounce 1dwt. of gold. The mine is still looking very well…

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The Mount David Gold Mine

The Bathurst Post · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 4

THE above mine, better known to residents as Crozier's, has caused a flutter of excitement during the last few months. Some two years ago there…

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Fatal Colliery Accident. a Mine Flooded. London

National Advocate · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 3

The Muldhouseburn colliery, at Muirkirk, has been flooded, and many of the miners entombed. Sixteen of the men were rescued after being imprisoned for…

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MINING. In the Burraga 'District

The Bathurst Post · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 1

Close up Mr. Lewis Lloyd's copper mine and Barraga would be a village of the past, as its copper production is its mainstay. For the past twenty years…

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Mine Concentrates

National Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1898 · page 2

There is considerable mining activity on Messrs. Anderson's estate, near Byng, in the Orange district. The Witney Green mine is on the property, which is situated but a few…

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Mine Concentrates

National Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1898 · page 2

Notice is given in the Gazette of the cancellation of the lease of 10 acres held by J Hade and another, under the Mining on Private Property Act, in parish Mount Lawson;…

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Mine Concentrates

National Advocate · Friday 18 March 1898 · page 2

A wire from Cobar says that the application for three months suspension on the Chesney leases was heard before Mr. Warden Gibson. Mr. Hogan, solicitor, appeared for…

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Mining News

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 18 March 1898 · page 4

SOFALA, Tuesday. -- Mr. H. Wiederscher, late manager of the Mount David company, has taken up 300 acres of land along the Turon River, extending from Mushroom Flat, West Wallaby, to Big Oakey, Turon…

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Only the Coal Man

Molong Argus · Friday 18 March 1898 · page 5

Some time ago I met with a most ludicrous adventure while delivering coal at a private lunatic asylum just outside Dublin. Having been admitted by the lodge-keeper, I led my…

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