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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

316 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 16

Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 5

The gold yield of the Ivanhoe Gold Corporation, Kalgoorlie, for the month of August, amounted to 8409oz. A rich find of gold has been made a few miles…

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Coal Strike in America

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 3

One hundred thousand miners of [?] coal in Penneylvanie, United States have struck for an advance in wages. The [?]owenrs refused to go to a[?]bitrstion on the question…

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The Price of Coal. (By Telegraph) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 September 1900 · page 2

IT is understood the proprietors of the Newcastle collieries intend to raise the price of coal from the beginning of the year to 12s per ton, instead of…

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The Great Mar Copper Mine. a Government Claim

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 September 1900 · page 4

The Attorney-General on behalf of the Crown was the plain[?] yesterday in an action brought against the Great Cobar Copper Mining Company limited in the Banco Court before the Chief…

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Gold Mining in New Guinea. Excellent Yields Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 September 1900 · page 2

Mr. W.E. Armit goldfields warden of New Guinea who has received three months leave of absence recruit his health arrived at Towneville yesterday. In an interview with a Herald…

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Selling Price of Coal

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 September 1900 · page 2

THERE appears to have been some misconception On the subject of the holding of a meeting of the Northern colliery proprietors in Sydney on…

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Gold Mining in New Guinea. Excellent Yields. Brisbane

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 2

Mr. W. E. Armit, goldfields warden of New Guinea, who has received three months' leave of absence to recruit his health, arrived at Townsville yesterday. In an interview with a Herald…

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A Coal Contract

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 4

It is stated that Messrs Minto, Elwin, and Co., of Rix's Creck, have obtained a small coal contract with the Railway commissioners for the supply of coal to a…

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Matrimonial Amenities. That Wife of Mine

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 1
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

She met mo at the door last night, All dainty, fresh, and smiling, And threw her plump arms round me tight In manner most beguiling…

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The Export of Offer and Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 3

8858 boxes of butter were shipped by the mail steamer Rome, which sailed to-day for London. The vessel also took away coin and bullion valued at £63,000…

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The Great Cobar Copper Mine. a Government Claim

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 10

The Attorney-General, on behalf of the Crown, was the plaintiff on Tuesday in an action brought against the Great Cobar Copper Mining Company, Limited, in the Banco Court, before the Chief…

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The Coal Outlook. Probable Prices Next Year. Will Twelve Shillings be the Standard Rate?

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 5

THERE is an impression gaining ground that a rise in the price of coal beyond what has already been fixed, as from the beginning of next year, will shortly…

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An Enormous Yield of Gold

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 1

When the Boer War began, the Transvaal was yielding annually about six million pounds' worth of gold, or more than one-fifth of the world's…

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Largest Piece of Gold Ever Found

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1900 · page 1

The largest piece of gold ever, found was discovered by two poor miners at Hill End, New South Wales, on May 10th, 1872.' It weighed 640 pounds,…

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Royalty on Gold

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 2

A very important case is pending in which the Government are claiming royalty from the Great Cobar. Copper Co. in respect of gold won from their…

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Four Barrels of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 3

Once a man of the labouring class who had often wished to be rich was offered all the money he wished for if he would accept, without a murmur the troubles and anxieties that wealth usually…

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Gold for America. (By Telegraph) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 27 September 1900 · page 3

THE American mail steamer Alameda salled to-day for San Franeiscd and takes gold to the value of £800,000…

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Coal Supplies

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 3

The British Admiralty has ordered five thousands tons of American coal for delivery at Bermula, and two thousand five hundred tons at Halifax, for British warships on the station…

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Mining Notes

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 September 1900 · page 2

AT Stewarts Brook, the Pride of the Brook party (14 men) had a very satisfactory crashing last week, 62 tons giving a return of 66ozs., which…

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