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Mining & the mines, 1891

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Leviathan Gold Mines Estate Company

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 6

A further step in developing the Ballarat belt of gold-bearing lodes was made yesterday (says the Ballarat Courier of January 19), when arrangements were entered upon for boring and…

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Mining Gossip. Richmond River Coal

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 19

THE Coraki HERALD says .- "Matters in connection with the Coraki coal mine are in a very healthy condition, and the floating of a big company has advanced to a certain stage, and in a…

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Bendithera. Gold and Silver Mines. Beautiful Caves. No. 2

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 24

The peculiar formation of the enormous outcrop of argentiferous and auriferous gossan on the leases taken up by the Bendithera Proprietary Co. is that there are two lodes, which, so far as…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 6

Statistics published by the Silver Age show that during 1890 182,[?]60 tons of ore were smelted by the Broken-hill Proprietary Company, yielding 82,848 tons of bullion[?]…

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The Barrier Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 6

BROKEN-HILL, Friday. -- There is no char[?] to report in the Block 10 mine, which [?] visited as usual to-day. The stopes look exceedingly well. The kaolin ore is chiefly…

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Newcastle Coal Export

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- The export of coal from Newcastle to foreign and intercolonial ports during the past week has been: -- Victoria 20,450. Chili 4779, South Australia 6090,…

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Late Mining. Bingera

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 211

Grosbernd and party sold their 80 acres of the Cinnabar lease for £400. BROKEN HILL, WEDNESDAY. During the week the South mine has despatched 322…

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Mining Opinions and Assays

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 188

H. A. (Meranbairn).—It is impossible to say from a small piece like the one forwarded whether it is worth sinking on or not. The specimen itself is simply iron. There does not appear to be any other metal…

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The Barrier Mines. Broken Hill, Jan. 15

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 214

The Australian Broken Hill Console Mine has again got on to rich ore, being a continuation of the vein from which 80,000oz. of silver were taken in four weeks. To-day 70lb. weight of silver additional has…

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Nominal Capital Value of Leading Silver Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 4

The coarse of the market during the week has been downward and business closed with a very lifeless tone and little or no disposition to operate. Of the Barrier stocks almost the only…

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Mining Companies and the State

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 14

SOME months ugo we pointed out that the State has a stronger claim on the mines than on the land, though the former were ignored by the Single-tax visionaries. The Sydney DAILY…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 25

Tin and Copper—Sydney Prices.—The market for tin ore is unchanged in value at 15s 6d per unit. The copper market has been quiet since the last sales report. The quotation is about £55 per…

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Splendid Returns. Mining Near Canowindra. Canowindra

The Australian Star · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 5

Thirteen tons of stone from Hayes' reef has yielded 25½oz. of gold, and 36 tons of stone from the London Claim. Boney'e Rooks, has yielded 126oz. of gold…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued From Page 25.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 41

Price of Bar Silver.—Our cablegram from London, January 19, reports that bar silver has risen [?]d per oz. Mudgee.—Our correspondent writing on January…

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The Two Detectives; OR, Mountain Mag. a Goldfield Story

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 29

There was a little stir at the opposite end of the table, and then the men fell back, and a roughly-dressed, bearded fellow stood out from among them…

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Colliery Explosion in Westphalia. Sixty Miners Killed. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Jan. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 5

A disastrous colliery explosion has taken place in Westphalia, Prussia. Sixty miners have been taken out dead, and 40 others were seriously injured…

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American Miners' Strike

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.--It is expected that about 260,000 miners in the United States of America will go out on strike in May next unless the mine-owners concede the…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 7

During the last few days shares in the Central, South and Junction Broken Hill companies have decreased in value to an unusual extent, the cause being it is said the attention now being paid by…

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Mining Intelligence. Reports

The Australian Star · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 2

Mount Sheba G.S. Co., No Liability.--The mine manager reports under date January 21: "Nozzle ran 157 hours; work is progressing well; all the ditches' are being…

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Mining. the West Australian Fields

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 January 1891 · page 6

PERTH, Sunday.--A trial crushing of 100 tons of stone from the West and Left League-hold, Ruby Creek, Kimberley, has yielded 208oz. of smelted gold. At the first clearing up…

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