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Mining & the mines, 1904

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 August 1904 · page 6
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

At the Cockle Creek works during the week 1247 tons of were treated, producing bullion and matte containing 427 ounces gold, 32,217 ounces silver, and 520 tons of…

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State of the Coal Trade

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 August 1904 · page 12

Japan as a coal producing country is attracting a good deal of attention among men who have invested their capital in the coal mining industry in New South Wales…

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Tumberumba Robbery. Gold in the Strong Room

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 August 1904 · page 3

A report has been received by the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Garvin, which contains some additional particulars regarding the robbery…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1904 · page 5

A nugget of gold, weighing between 80z. and 40z., found on the surface by a prospector at Woodcutters Hill, Junction Reels near Mandurama, in the Carcoar district, on…

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The Very Latest. London, Monday afternoon Mining Troubles

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1904 · page 5

The Cripple Creek (U.S.A.) trouble have been [?]summed. The Citizens are expelling sympathisers with the unonists…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 August 1904 · page 6

At the last quarterly meeting of the miners' delegate board at Newcastle, it was shown that the funds of the federation amounted to £5039 16s 3d, and that the…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 August 1904 · page 2

In no department of industry has the influence of compulsory arbitration—compulsory arbitrariness, it might more appropriately be termed—…

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The War. Assault on Port Arthur. a Tremendous Conflict. Appalling Mine Explosions. the Neutrallty of Shanghai. a Reference to Peking. Russian Stay Extended. London, Aug. 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 August 1904 · page 5

A witness of the explosion of the minefield over which the Japanese passed on their advance on Port Arthur, declares that while the Japanese advanced not a single…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1904 · page 13

At the Dee River rush, Q., last week, Townsend and party got a nugget of gold, weighing be 70 and 80 ounces. A few minutes before making this handsome find, they unearthed a smaller nugget…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 August 1904 · page 6

A parcel of gold weighing 3 ounces 12dwts. has just been disposed of at Harden as the result of a week's dollying in Jones and party's claim at Rumble's Blind Creek, near…

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Goldfield in Japan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 August 1904 · page 3

The Government of Japan entirely reserves to itself the recently discovered goldfields in the prefecture of Iwate, northern Japan. The total yield of the field is officially…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 August 1904 · page 7

[?]uyra paper says :—Last week a representative of his journal visited the coal [?] recently supposed to have been dis[?] near Black Mountain, but as a…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 September 1904 · page 2

At a meeting of the colliery proprietors of the Northern district, held in Sydney [?] Wednesday if was decided to reduce the declared seiling price of coal to 9s per ton…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 September 1904 · page 2

The mining warden at Cobar, Mr. Treatt, has just concluded a two days' inquiry under the Mines Inspection Act into the conduct, of Charles Ross, who was ono of the engine…

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The Sketcher The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 September 1904 · page 4

Only within a very recent period bun mention been made of Cripple Greek, Colorado, although it is doubtless the greatest gold camp on earth…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 September 1904 · page 12

The Transvall gold production for the first half of this year was valued at £7,710,534, as compared with £5,579,743 for the corresponding period last year. The output…

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Japan's Gold Fields

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 September 1904 · page 5

A Japanese export, estimates that Iwate Goldfield (in tho northern portion of Japan)' will yield [?]400,000,000 if the whole of the field is equal in richness to the fourth of it…

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Saturday, September 3, 1904. the Coal Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 September 1904 · page 4

NOTICES have been posted at a number of the coalmines in the Newcastle district, of a reduction in the standard hewing rate from 3s lOd to 3s 6d per ton, while the soiling price…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 September 1904 · page 6

Mr. S. Lake and his son have just brought to Moruya, and placed in the local bank, 107 ounces of pure smelted gold, the result of a crushing of eight tons of stone from…

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