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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

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The Victorian Collieries

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 February 1903 · page 2

THE situation in connection with the strike at the coal mines is unchanged (a correspondent at the Gippsland coal mines writes) Steps are being taken…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Tasmanian Mines. HOBART

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 February 1903 · page 2

Mr. John Mayne has sold a tinmine at Helmakirk for £10.000 cash and one-eighth interest in the company to be floated…

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Colored Mine Labor

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 February 1903 · page 2

A NEW feature in connection with the colored cheap labor question was referred to to-day by the general managor (Mr. D. Wardle) of the…

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Yorkshire Miners' Strike. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 2

The executive of the Yorkshire Miners' Association has condemned the Denaby Main strike and has ordered 5000 men, who have been [?]…

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MINING. Block 10

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 February 1903 · page 2

MR, ALFRRD HARVEY, chairman of Block 10 directors, with Mr. John Brandon, the secretary, arrived in Broken Hill on Saturday, and left…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Record Gold Yield. PERTH, Tuesday Evening

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 2

The January gold yield was 21O,450oz; this is the highest recorded by the State…

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The Mount Browne Goldfield

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 February 1903 · page 2

Our Milparinka correspondent writes:—At Mount Browne Pat Glover has had another washing. He put through 82 loads for 30. z. of gold…

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Mining. [Bt Telegraph.] New Alluvial Diggings. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 2

A Wellington telegram states that new all[?]vial diggings have been discovered on Comobella, on private land adjoining Mitchell's Greek. During…

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Queensland Mining. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 February 1903 · page 2

The gold yield of Queensland for the month of January reached 57.613oz The new lode at the 750ft. level,…

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New South Wales Gold Yield. SYDNEYU

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 February 1903 · page 2

The gold yield of New South Wales for January totalled 30 361 z…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] The North Central. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 February 1903 · page 2

Mr. Leonard Dodds, the legal manager, states that the Broken Hill North Central mine has been purchased by a member of the Sydney…

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MINING. [By TELEGRAPH.] Tasmanian Mines. HOBART

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 February 1903 · page 2

All construction work at the Crotty reduction works, North Mount Lyell, has been temporarily suspended, and large numbers of men including some…

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New Gold Find. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 February 1903 · page 2

A new gold discovery has been made at Dawen Range near Gladstone. Assays go from 15dwt to 3oz to the ton. The quantity of ore in sight is…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] a Fine Gold Yield, WELLINGTON

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 2

The Walhi Gold Company in the last four weeks treated 17,587 tons of stone for a yield of ballion valued at £50,444…

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Miners' Wages Increased. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 2

The collieries of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, in the United, States, have offered the miners a 12½ per cent, increase in their wages,…

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Opal Mining in Queensland

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 2

IN a report on the opal-mining industry in Qaeensland, Mr. C. F. V. Jackson, Assistant Government Geologist, states that after a short era of…

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The Gippsland Collieries. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 2

A conference is being held discussing a proposal to submit the Gippsland colliery trouble to arbitration…

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Mi[?]parinka News. MINING

Western Grazier · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 2

Since the break-up of the drought and the consequent improved condition of the country and water supply, a steady increase in the production of gold is…

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A Broken Hill Miner Strikes Gold

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 3

MR. W. SMITH, of Abbot-street North, Broken Hill South, has just had stroke of excellen[?] luck. For years he has worked in a local mine,…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] a White Cliffs Opal. "The Largest in the World." White Cliffs

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 2

Thomas Waters [?] 20[?], below the surfac on Block 5 [?] [?] a lamp of [?] [?] (I the gangue rock) 13 b The block…

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