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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 10 of 72

Mining News

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 4

SOFALA, Thursday.--The montly gold escort left to-day with 230oz. of gold. Copper is quoted in London at £71 5s and tin at £107 10s per ton…

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Mining Notes

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 3

BLAYNEY, Tuesday.-- Hemsley and party have sent four trucks of high-grade ore to Lithgow as a bulk test. A correspondent, writing to the Telegraph the…

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Mining for Copper

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 11

We recently commented on the fact that copper was not included in the list of minerals which can be mined for under the Mining on…

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In the Land of Gold

Molong Argus · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 3

In "The Land of gold: the narrative of a journey through the West Australian Goldfields," Mr. Julius M. Price gives some graphic sketches of stones and incidents of Australian…

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Airly. the Mining Trouble

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 4

The A.K.O. miners are still out on strike, and as Friday is pay-day with them something fresh may turn up. The men seemed very determined, at a meeting held during the past week, to adhere to…

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A Letter to the minister for Mines

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 4

I have this week addressed the following letter to the Minister for Mines:— Legislative Assembly,…

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Barrier Miners' Complaint. Employers' Black-books. Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 3

A deputation of Parliamentary representatives of the Barrier complained to the Minister for Mines today of the system under which the names and…

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Sunny Corner Mining. to the Editor

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 6

Sir,--My mining report in a previous issue has roused Mr. Hurley's [?]re, and he rushes into print with a lengthy letter. He is hurt because I reported that the old Tonkin mine had been taken up by some…

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A Cake of Gold. Found in a Train

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 4

Mrs. Grenfell is a resident of Footseray, and on Wednesday journeyed to Melbourne by the 2.30 p.m. train (says the Melbourne…

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Mining Wardens' Court. FRIDAY, March 8bd. (Before the Mining Warden, Mr. G. E. Smith, P.m.) Suspension of Labor

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 2

William Wiley, W. J. Wilson and William Hunter applied for total suspension of labor conditions on a 20 acre mineral lease, copper lode, situate at Wiseman's Creek…

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Notes in the Hargraves District. Two Promising Mines. The Hampden and the Homeward Bound

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 7

There are scores and hundreds of people in the district who know but little of the mineral wealth won in the past, and pay but too little…

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Hill End Mining. Important Public Meeting. The Tunnel Scheme Discussed

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 7

When I was in Margraves last week I decided to push on to Hill End. I had heard that a public meeting was to be held in…

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A Victorian Gold-Mining Company. LONDON, Wednesday afternoon

National Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 2

The Consolidated Goldfields Company of Victoria has been floated. The capital of the company is £275,000 in 275,000 shares of £1 each, of which…

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Mining

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 7

Mining at the Iron Clad Golden Mines seem to have taken a new lease of life, for the batteries are now running night and day with three sets of hands. The Bluff now brought to the…

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Mine Concentrates. Red Hill

National Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 2

This mine is shut down for a week, pending negotiations for a change of ownership. Tenfeet has been driven on the lode without touching the walls. Four tons of ore are…

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Rich Strike of Gold. Adelong

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 1

Stone from the new find in the Caledonian mine, broken down to-day, was a glittering mass of gold. The stone has been lodged in the Bank of New South…

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The Mining Industry. the Blayney District

The Blayney Advocate and Carcoar Herald · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 4

The mining reporter of the "Daily Telegraph" writes as follows:—The mining districts surrounding Newbridge are well-high deserted. This has been the area of the…

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Correspondence. Copper Mining. (To the Editor of the Orange Leader.)

Leader · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 6

Sir,—Go where we will, we regret to hear tho staguant topic of the working community, the existing depression. On enquiry we find that the unemployed are…

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The Consols Mine. a Sensational Development Broken Hill, Saturday Afternoon

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 6 March 1899 · page 2

A most Important developments has occurred in the A. B. H. Consols Mine, beside which all previous developments— and Borne of these have been sensational…

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The Declaration of Gold Yields

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Tuesday 7 March 1899 · page 2

In some notes on a trip round Hargraves and Hill End, the special reporter of the "Guardian" commented to the difficulty of…

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