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

Mining & the mines, 1899

1,428 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 72

Mining Company's Steamer. LONDON

National Advocate · Monday 2 January 1899 · page 3

The steamer built to the order of North Mount Lyell Co., has been launched at Newcastle…

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The Adelong miners. SYDNEY

Leader · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 2

A mass meeting of miners at Adelong on Saturday afternoon decided that the £2 5s per week offered by the Gibraltar Gold Mines, Ltd., should be accepted by all miners…

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Telegraphic News. The Coal-weighting Trouble. SYDNEY

Leader · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 2

As some of the miners' delegates at a recent conference between representatives of the Southern Coal Company proprietor and miners left under a wrong impression, and…

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Mine Concentrates Sunny Corner

National Advocate · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

Considine and party have just finished a crushing at Murray and Lean's battery of 58 tons from their lease on Big Hill for a return of 43oz. 6dwts of gold…

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The Gold Yield. SYDNEY

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

The gold returns of the colony for the year show a substantial increase in the value of the metal obtained. The total gold yield of the year was 341,722,02…

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Mining Fatality. PARKES

National Advocate · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 2

A miner named Pringle fell into a sump six feet deep, alongside, the well-hole in the Koh-i-noor mine here and was killed. He is supposed to have had a…

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The Mount David Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 4

Manager's report for the week ended December 31.--100ft. level: South drive in monkey winze extended 9ft. for week, all in gossan, carrying good prospects in places. Appearance of the gossan leads…

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Mining News

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 4

This wire appeared in Saturday's Telegraph, headed " Windsor, Friday " :--" The Capertee Shale Company intends carrying its oil in pipes down the Colo Valley to the Hawkesbury, to be shipped thence…

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The Coal Weighing Difficulty

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 4

Those coalmine proprietors who have consented to meet the representatives of the miners in conference at Newcastle on Saturday next have (says the Herald) decided to themselves meet and confer on…

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The Australian Gold Yield

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 4

Mr. Cook's figures for the gold yield of New South Wales during 1898 enable us to put into tabular form an approximate statement, in the case of the other colonies estimated only, of the precious mineral…

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Sunny Corner Mining

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 4

From the Lagoon district I made my way to the once famous Mitchell's Creek. This ranks among the early, discoveries in the good old goldfield days, and as gold produced, both for alluvial and quartz…

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Late Telegrams Sydney, Thursday. Gold Yield

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 13

The total gold yield for the past year in N.S.W. was 341,720½oz…

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Mining in New South Wales. an Interview with Mr. Louis Janin, Junr. Mining Law Reform

National Advocate · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 3

Hearing that Mr. Louis Janin is about to return to America after a lengthy stay in this colony, a representative of the "Herald" interviewed that…

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Drowned in a Mine

Leader · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 4

On Wednesday afternoon George Pringle and his mate, Wm. Payne, started work on contract at the Kohinoor [?] Parkes. Shortly afterwards Payne missed his mate,…

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Mining. Sunny Corner. Sunny Corner

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 2

In mining there is nothing fresh to report. The majority of claims have not resumed work since the holidays. The late rains have given ample water for crushing, and results…

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A New Gold Field. Important Find Near Temora

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 2

A very important find, which is expected to open up an entirely new goldfield, is reported from "Yarran Jerry, county Bourke, on conditional purchase land owned by Messrs. Hewett…

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Open Column. Mining Versus Agriculture. To the Editor of the Bathurst Daily Free Press

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 2

Sir,-Bathurst is the centre of an immense mineral belt of country, and if it is over to become a large and properous place it must from the circumstances of its…

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Mine Concentrates. Leases Approved

National Advocate · Monday 9 January 1899 · page 3

Notice has been given that the application of S. H. Gannon and other for mineral lease of 40 acres [?] West[?]land parish [?] has been…

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Mine Concentrates. Sunny Corner

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1899 · page 2

A report from Sunny Corner states that Odgers and party, who recently opened up a hew vein on the Little Hill, have had two crushings, both of…

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Gold at Beaudersert

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Tuesday 10 January 1899 · page 2

Some of the claims in the Beaudersert paddock at Cullenbone are on good gold, and we hear that they are washing up for a yield of 9 to…

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