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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 12 of 72

Dreyfus and Foreign Gold. Alarm of the French Press. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 20 March 1899 · page 3

The French Premier has given an official denial to the report, that the movement in favor of Captain Dreyfus' release was supported by foreign gold…

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Mine Concentrates. Gold Find Near Mudgee

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 2

A report has been received by the Mines Department from Mr. Wilkinson, warden of Mudgee, in reference to the discovery of alluvial gold in the parish of Gaiambine,…

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Belara Copper Mine

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 2

Mr. Henry J. Cork writes to us correcting a statement which has recent been published to the effect that a large number of men…

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The Hampden Mine

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Tuesday 21 March 1899 · page 2

Mr. J. W. Duesbury, one of the principal shareholders in the Hampden mine, Hargraves, received word on Saturday from the manager,…

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Mine Concentrates. Parkes

National Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1899 · page 2

The Kohinoor cleaned up a run for a yield of [?]832oz, from the battery and cyanide plant, which is considered a highly satisfactory return…

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Injured While Mining

National Advocate · Thursday 23 March 1899 · page 3

On St. Patrick's Day at Mt. David, Harry Rogers, aged 21, met with a painful accident. He was working in a shaft with a mate, about a mile form Mt…

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Gold

The Gulgong Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1899 · page 8

On Wednesday last Murn and [?] finished washing 52 loads of dirt from their claim at Beryl, the return £23 a man. They have a big face of…

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Mine Concentrates. Orange

National Advocate · Friday 24 March 1899 · page 3

The latest crushing from Palmer's Bulga was 40 tons of stone from Griffiths and party, treated at the Golden Gully battery, for 91oz. 7dwt amalgam, returning 48oz…

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Westralia Gold Yield

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 24 March 1899 · page 13

A hundred tons of sulphide ore from the Lake View Consols, West Australia, returned a net yield of £9821…

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Mining News

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 24 March 1899 · page 4

OBERON, Wednesday.-- Bainbridge and party are actively engaged erecting a four-stamper battery at their claim in Lambert's paddock. An American copper trust, with an immense…

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The Coal-weighing Question

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 24 March 1899 · page 4

The further period of grace 'allowed to mineowners for complying with the provisions of the weighing clause of the Coat Mines Regulation Act will (says the Herald) shortly expire. This Act…

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The Mining Laws. Mr. W. C. Wall Slashes at the Chamber of Mines. An Appeal for Genuine Mining as Opposed to Speculative Companies

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 24 March 1899 · page 14

Mr. W. C. Wall writes:—"I your issue of to-day there appears a report of a deputation that waited on the Minister for Mines,…

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Sunny Corner Mining

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 24 March 1899 · page 4

Brown and party are pleased with, their claim. The vein is getting larger and richer as they go down. Mr. Cooper, who is working the old Federal property, with Mr. Holman, crushed half-a-pound…

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Gold in the Mudgee District

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 24 March 1899 · page 4

The Under-Secretary for Mines is in receipt of a report from Warden Wilkinson, of Mudgee, stating that discovery of alluvial gold, in new ground, has been made by a party of three prospectors on Mr…

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The Log Paddock Mine. A Peculiar Formation. Mr. Carne, F.G.S. Revisits the Mine

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 24 March 1899 · page 12

As we briefly reported last week, Mr. Higgins, the manager of the Log Paddock mine, easily beat the water, which did not prove nearly…

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A Gold-saver

National Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1899 · page 2

A number of gentlemen interested in mining assembled at Messrs. Angus and Sons' factory, Castlereagh-street, to witness a trial of Mr. Owen Blacket's gold-saving…

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Mine Concentrates. Great Cobar Copper

National Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1899 · page 2

Messrs. Leonard Dobbs and Co. report the sale of 80½ tons of Great Cobar copper, at £63 10s per ton for the copper, and the usual price for gold and silver contents. A cable…

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Three Inches of Gold

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 March 1899 · page 2

A special dispatch to tho San Francisco Call from Denver (Col.), January 29, says:—"The recent strike of the Isabella, at Cripple Greek, has rendered the Colorado mining…

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The Minister for Mines on Methodist Union

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 March 1899 · page 3

Mr. J. Cook, speaking at the opening of a Primitives Methodist bazaar at Parramatta on Thursday, had something to say on a topic that is just now causing a good deal of…

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Alleged Mining Frauds. LONDON

National Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1899 · page 2

Claude Vautin, late of Bassinghill-street, London, consulting metallurgist and director of mining companies, formerly of Melbourne, who was recently…

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