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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1898

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MINING. The B. H. Proprietary

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 February 1898 · page 2

THE past fortnight's shipments to Port Pirie comprised 297 tons crude sulphides and 3969 tons oxidised ores It is anticipated the northern nest of furnaces will be closed down…

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The Yukon Goldfields. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 February 1898 · page 4

Captain Ray, the Ca[?]ian Government Commissioner at Alaska, recommends that immigrants should be prevented from entering the Yukon goldfields unless they take…

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MINING. The Broken Hill North

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 2

THE half-yearly meeting was held in Melbourne this week, Mr. A. E. Clarke, chairman of directors, presiding. The report of the directors stated that the plant at the…

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A Whisky Mine

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 February 1898 · page 3

AFTER prospecting with long steel rods over more than a hundred acres of land by the side of the course of the Missouri Siver, some miles above St Louis, a company of…

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MINING. Block 14

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 February 1898 · page 2

The mill ran slowly for the first three days last week, treating 2162 tons crude sulphides for 556 tons concentrates and slimes of the usual fair silver and had…

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The Bendigo Miners and the Engineers' Strike

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 February 1898 · page 2

AT the meeting of the Miners' Association committee last evening (says Friday's Bendigo Independent) it was incidentally mentioned that, according to Press reports, the…

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MINING. The North

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 February 1898 · page 2

THE mill ran quietly last week, treating 570 tone crude sutphides, assaying from the trommiels 2[?] per cent. lead 6 507. silver, and 164 per nent. zino, returning 133 tons…

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Copper Mining in South Australia

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 February 1898 · page 2

In reply to inquiries the Commissioner on Crown Lands in South Australia has received the following information from the secretary of the Wallarce and Moonta…

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MINING. The South

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 February 1898 · page 2

THE mill did fair work last week, treating 1599 tons crnde sulphides, assaying from the trommels 18 5 per cent. lead. 6oz. silver, and 11 4 per cent. zinc, also 93 tons zincs…

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Down the Deep Mines. "Not Fit for White Men."

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 February 1898 · page 2

THE Hon. H. Foster, Minister for Mines, who has been in Bendigo prosecuting inquiries into the disagreements between the mineowners and the A. M. A. with…

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Mining Fatality at Yackandandah. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 February 1898 · page 2

Edward Hamilton, a miner, has been smothered by the collapse of a wall in a claim at Yackandandah, while engaged in sluicing…

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The Mines Dams Filled

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 February 1898 · page 2

Three of the dams in the Proprietary paddook were rapidly filling before noon. The fourth dam was being cleaned out, but the obstructions have been removed, and it…

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Endangering Miners' Lives

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 2

AT the Lambton Police Court on Saturday Hugh Humphries, manager of the Dudley Colliery, proceeded against one of the miners named Walter Peel, a young man,…

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MINING. The Junction

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 2

THE mill did fair work last week, treating 670 tons crude sulphides, as saying from the trommels 11 5oz. silver, 25.1 per cent. lead, and 16 5 per cent zinc, producing 140 tons…

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The Central Mine

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 2

Mr. E. K. Beaumont, C.E., who has for the last two years been civil engineer and mining surveyor at the Central, has been promoted to the position of mining manager,…

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Gold and Blood

Western Grazier · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 4

MANY years ago 1 know a man who expended a gives part of a large fortuns in baying golf, in coin and in bars. This be corited, and with human b[?] and other unique ingredients,…

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The Co-operative Colliery. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 4

The whole of the mining lodges in the northern district have adopted the recommendation of the delegate board that unless the men discharged by the…

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MINING. Junction North

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning the Junction North broke a main pump rod, to keep the deep workings dry had to resort to baling. It is anticipated that the damage will be…

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The Co-operative Colliery. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 February 1898 · page 4

The whole of the mining lodges, in the northern district have adopted the recommendation of the delegate board that unless the men discharged by the…

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MINING. The North

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 February 1898 · page 2

RUNNING full time last week on two shifts, the mill treated 664 tons crude sulphides, assaying from the trommels 19 5 per cont. lead, 6.7oz. silver, and…

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