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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

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[By Telegraph.] Japanese Coal Supply. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 29 June 1900 · page 4

Information has been received in Newcastle that the supply of coal from the Japanese collieries has been stopped…

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The Coal Trade. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 1

The miners in the Newcastle district are jubilant at the arbitration, Miners' Accident, and Regulation of the Hours of Work in Mines Bills introduced into the Assembly last night,…

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Mining

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 July 1900 · page 1

MR. HAL. SHEPPARD, chairman of directors of the Junction North mine, arrived in Broken Hill by this morning's express. Mr. Herbert Daly, a director of the North, is…

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MINING. [REUTER's MESSAGE.] The Metal Market. LONDON, Friday Night

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 July 1900 · page 2

The latest prices quoted for bar silver (standard) is 2s. 49-16d. per ounce. Lead is quoted at £17 7s. 6d. per ton…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] New Tasmanian Inspector. HOBART

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 July 1900 · page 2

The Government has decidid to appoint an additional inspector of miens, who will commence duty in January next. The appointment is deemed necessary on account of the…

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The Mines' Water Supply

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 July 1900 · page 2

THE agreement between the Broken Hill Water Supply Company and the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Limited, has at length been executed. The Proprietary Company…

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MINING. The British

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 July 1900 · page 2

FOR the nine days ending June 30, closing this mine's official half-year, the plant treated 3100 tons crude su plides. This yielded 125 tons first-grade concentrates, bulking 626 per…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] South Australian Ore Transport. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 July 1900 · page 2

Owing to the impassable state of the roads for horses from the White Range reefs to the [?]nga Cyanide Works, a team of 20 camels has been engaged. The camels will transport…

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The Coal Trade

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 4

A SPECIAL meeting of the miners delegate board for the Northern district was held at Newcastle on Wednesday to consider the refusal of the combined colliery proprietors…

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MINING. Block 10

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 1

THE mill did extremely good work for the week ending June 27. The quantity of crude sulphides treated was 2867 tons, and this yielded 509 tons concentrates, assaying…

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MINING. The London Market

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

THE following quotations, dated London, July 5, have been received by Messrs. Clarke and Co:— Associated, £3 7s. 6d…

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Mining Fatalities. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 July 1900 · page 2

A fatal accident occurred in the Great Southern mine, Rutherglen, on, Saturday. George Falco[?]bridge was riding on a truck drawn by electricity along the level when his…

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Mining. [Reuter's Message.] Broken Hill Shares. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 July 1900 · page 2

Broken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted in London at 48s 9d…

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Mining. [Reuter's Message.] The Price of Silver. LONDON, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 2

Bar silver (standard) is now quoted at 2s. 4 9-16d. per[?]ounce…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 3 P.M. the War. a Cape Boycott. the Johannesburg Mines. [Reuter's Message.] London, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 4

The Afrikanders of Cape Colony are organising a company, with a capital of £200,000, so as to assist in the boycott of British trade…

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Mining. [Reuter's Message.] The Price of Silver. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 2

Bar silver (standard) has fallen a point, and is quoted to-day at 2s, 4½d. per ounce…

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[By Telegraph.] The Tarcoola Goldfield. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 2

Some private persons recently offered to put up water condensers on the new goldfield in the North, Tarcoola, if the Government gave a loan. The Government has now agreed to…

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Mining. [Reuter's Message] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 July 1900 · page 3

Bar silver (standard) is now quoted at 2s. 3 7-16d. per ounce…

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Barrier Miner. Thursday, July 12, 1900. Coal and Arbitration

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 July 1900 · page 2

IF some people might reasonably be expected to work harder than others on behalf of the Industrial Arbitration Bill, those people are surely the people of…

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The Mining Balance Sheet of the World

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 July 1900 · page 3

"ENGINEERING" says that the workers burrowing far into the crust of the earth, day after day, to recover the great riches stored by…

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