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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Scottish Australian Mining Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 October 1898 · page 3

The half-yearly report of the directors of the Scottish Australian Mining Company, Limited, shows a profit of £4040. The directors recommend the payment of a divided at the rate of 2 per cent…

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The Mining Broker's "Tip."

Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 October 1898 · page 2

MARK WAIN is credited in saying " Take all the advice you are offered, and then do as you please." This terse axioum generally applies, and the public have found…

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Gold Amid the Snow. Chapter Viii. Gaining Time

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 October 1898 · page 9

Even in that first instant of the descent when it seemed as if he were dashing on to certain death, King thought of the damage to all his plans that would follow from the…

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A Mining Catastrophe

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 1 November 1898 · page 4

A DREADFUL catastrophe occurred at the Band and Albion lease, Ballarat, last Friday morning, when two fine young men, named Henry Baxter, 25…

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A True Mining Romance

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 1 November 1898 · page 4

THE details of the genesis of one group of West Australian mines show what can be done by a well-directed union of a little capital, some brains, and…

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Coal-Weighing Difficulty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 November 1898 · page 3

At the meeting of the coalmine proprietors held in Sydney on Thursday last to discuss the circular issued by the Mines Department intimating that unless the provisions of section 38 of the Coalmines…

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Illawarra Coal Lands. Deputation to the Minister of Mines. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 November 1898 · page 3

A deputation from the Illawarra district waited on the Minister of Mines to-day, to ask that the Government should put down bores on Government land south of Port Kembla, with a view to proving…

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The Coal Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 November 1898 · page 2

Yesterday the conference between representatives of all the principal collieries in all parts of the colony was resumed at the offices of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company in Bridge-street…

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Mining Notes

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 November 1898 · page 2

A STEWARTS BROOK correspondent writes:—The claims are all doing fair work. A trial crushing from the new find of Adams and Armstrong is…

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Coal-Weighing Difficulty

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 November 1898 · page 14

At the meeting of the coalmine proprietors held in Sydney on October 27 to disease the circular issued by the Mines Department intimating that unless the provisions of section 38 of the Coalmines…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 November 1898 · page 7

In the Australia East lode, Kalgoorlie, a seam. of pure gold, a quarter of an inch thick, is said to exist. The Minister of Mines has instructed his officers…

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An Alleged Mining Scandal. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 November 1898 · page 2

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Claude Vantin, a well-known consulting metalurgist, and director of a number of West Australian…

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Gold Amid the Snow. Chapter Ix. the Ice Breaks

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 November 1898 · page 9

"We'll find out about that soon enough," declared the lender of the party emphatically; "I 'low that you're bound for Circle City or somewhares up that way."…

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THE Muswellbrook Chornicle O, sacred weapon, left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice and insolence, Reverent we touch thee! but with honest zeal To rouse the henchman of the public weal Saturday, Nov. 5, 1898. Gold

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 5 November 1898 · page 2

IN more ways than one the position of the king of metals in mundane matters is being discussed with great interest just now. The export of gold from…

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The Gold Communion Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 November 1898 · page 3

Dean Gregory declares that he will not surrender Hooley's gold communion plate…

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Can We Spare Our Gold?

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 9 November 1898 · page 2

1 am glad to see that the immense and unprecedented export of gold from Sydney is beginning to arouse general attention. Since the beginning of the…

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Mining Notes

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 November 1898 · page 2

The manager of the New Royal Standard mine reports having sunk the shaft a farther depth of 3[?]t, making it 167ft, during the past week,…

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The Land Tax and Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 November 1898 · page 3

Hearing of the appeal by the Taxation Commissioners against the judgment of the Court of Review in the cases of the Broken Hill Proprietary Block 10 Co. and the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. was…

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About Catching Gold

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 3

Of course, it goes without saying that whosoever has reaction strong enough to take the cold morning tub all throughout the winter will possess to a great…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 7

A party of Chinese tributors on the Woolugie field, S.A., lately thrown open for alien labour, have crushed 7 tons of stone from Giles' claim for 40oz. of gold…

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