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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

316 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 16

Mining Notes

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1900 · page 2

ANOTHER excellent crushing is reported from old Fuller's Reef, Moonan Brook, from which E. Williams and party have just cleaned up 56 tons for a…

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The Coal Trade Brisk. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 15 May 1900 · page 2

THE coal trade at Newcastle is very brisk now, and the miners think this a good opportunity to seek" an increase in their wages…

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Grains of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 5

Never take a crooked path while you can find a straight one. Hope is the word which the finger of God has inscribed upon the brow of every man…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 3

The coal production of Japan has increased from 3,168,875 tone in 1891 to 5,019,687 tons in 1899. Very rich tin, estimated to go 1½cwt., to the load, has been struck at Gilgol, in the Inverell district,…

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The Coal Supply

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 May 1900 · page 5

The coal question in Great Britain continues to be a very serious one (says the Argus). Last year the production amounted to 220,085,000 tons, against 202,042,000 tons for 1898, and 202,119,000…

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Grains of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 May 1900 · page 6

There are three crowns; the crown of the daw, the crown of the priesthood and the crown of royalty; but the crown of a good name is superior to thorn all…

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Gold Weather

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 May 1900 · page 2

Winter is once more paying us her annual call, and as the evenings are long, you can pass the same with pleasure, if you buy a good concertina, accordeon,…

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Transvaal War Kruger Exhibits Humility the Progressive Party Seek Submission. Destruction of Mines Again Threatened. Unconditional Surrender Demanded. Surrender of Prisoners and Arms. Defence of Johannesburg. Transvaalers Issuing Paper Money. Use of Expansive Dullets. London, May 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 May 1900 · page 3

The Express reports that President Kruger has personality telegraphed to Lord Salisbury in an exceedingly humble strain, and has proposed certain terms of peace…

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Coal Creek

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 23 May 1900 · page 2

The ball held here on Friday, the [?]th May, under the auspices of the Coal Creek Cricket Club, was a decided success. There were a goodly number…

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The Price of Coal

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 23 May 1900 · page 2

The much be-badgered colhery proprietors of Newcastle have at last undertaken to raise the price of coal a shilling a ton as from the first of…

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The Coal Supply

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 12

The coal question in Great Britain continues to be a very serious one (says the Argus). Last year the production amounted to 220,085,000 tons, against 202,042,000 tone for 1898, and 202,119,000…

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The Gold Mine of Kamschtka

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

The Russian Minister of Finance, Mr. De [?] has [?] to hospitably [?] and [?] English [?] and of here to upon out and [?] the rich gold mines in [?]…

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The Band Mines. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 3

Mr Klimke, the Transvaal State Mining Engineer, who recently OpPased any Boer interference with the Johannesburg mine?, has been…

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Transvaal War Invasion of the Tr[?]nsvaal. the [?]Ing Movement Irnesistible. Lord Methuen Over the Border. Doers Out-maneuvred. Enemy Concentrating Near [?] Destruction of Collieries Prevented Doers Will Not Surrender. Further Boer Deception. the Enemy Again Repulsed. the Gatrand Mountains to Be the Boers' Last Stand. Rapid Marching by the Colonials. London, May 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 3

Fioid-marchal Lord Roberts has his head[?] at Ver[?]niging, on the northern bank of the Vaal, 77 miles from Pretor is and 50 miles from Johannesburg. The steady march and the enveloping…

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The Gold Mine of Kamschatka

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 12

The Russian Minister of Finance, Mr. De Witte, has decided to hospitably receive and encourage English capitalists and others to open out and work the rich gold mines in Kamschatka, recently…

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The Accident at Gunnedah Colliery

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 4

As a formal investigation of this accident and of its causes and circumstances appeared to the Minister for Mines (Mr. Fegan) to be expedient,…

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Mining Notes

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 3

IN reference to the Dry Creek part of our auriferous district, a correspondent, signing himself "Miner," writes:—"It may interest some of…

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New Goldfields

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 2

GOLD 13 now being found IN large quantities at Hokkaido, in the province of Kitami, in Japan. A territory embracing 650 squaro miles, tha…

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New Goldfields

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 4

GOLD is now being found in large quantities at Hokkaido, in the province of Kitami, in Japan. A territory embracing 65O square miles, the…

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Shipping of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 June 1900 · page 3

The mail steamer Mo[?] which sailed to-day for San Francisco, took away thirty boxes of gold valued at £150,000…

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