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Mining & the mines, 1891

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Newcastle Coal Export

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 8
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The following was the export of coal to foreign and intercolonial ports for the week ending June 12:—Victoria, 17,659 tons; New Zealand, 44[?]7 tons; West Australia, 1800 tons; West Coast, 4468 tons; Queensland, 22[?]1 tons; South…

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Lambton Miners. Newcastle

The Australian Star · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 11

The above miners held a special meeting the other evening in Ralph's Hall, Mr. Hanlon in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed…

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The Euriowie Tin Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 1342

Euriowie township is 60 miles north of Broken Hill, and was the centre of some tin excitement some three years ago. Of the multitude of claims pegged out and leased for speculative purposes, only two are now…

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Mining Gossip

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 20

THE Sofala gold encort took away 203oz. of the precious metal last week. Another crushing at the Occidental, Cobar, has given 80½oz. gold from 80 tons of stone…

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Coal Crops near Coraki

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 1342

A report has lately been furnished to Mr. Sydney Smith, the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, upon the coal-measures of the Clarence and Hicmond districts, by Mr. T. W. S. David, a geological surveyor…

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The Leigh's Creek Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Friday.--The Commissioner for Lands to-day received a telegram from the Government Geologist, who is at Parma, with respect to the Leigh's Creek bore. The…

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New Gold Discovery at Burrowa

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 9

BURROWA, Tuesday.-Some excitement has been created by the discovery of rich gold-bearing stone on private proper by in. the vicinity of the Wallah silver field. Prospecting silver blocks,…

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Mining Opinions and Assays

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 1306

L. B. (Bundarra).—The sample forwarded is quartz, with iron. It assays—gold or silver, nil. R. M. (Kangaroo Valley).—The mineral, respecting which an opinion was published last month, is…

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Mining in Lower California

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 24

Consul Viosca of La Paz, writing to the State Department, describes the condition of Lower California as very backward. He says, although the Republic of Mexico has enjoyed of late years…

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Coal. Our Foreign Export From Newcastle

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 3

WITH the first issues of THE DAILY COMMERCIAL NEWS. we publish several useful tables dealing with the "Black Diamonds," and trust the information will be found useful to our many friends in the coal and shipping trades. The period chosen, owing to the disastrous strike, is in some respects an unfortunate one, but we are inclined to…

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The Barrier Mines. Broken Hill, June 5

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 1342

A rich development has taken place in Block 10, kaolin, carrying rich native silver, having teen struck in the winze at a depth of 497ft from the surface. This is the deepest point on the field at which native…

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Late Mining. Broken Hill

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 1316

No. I winze at the 445ft. level of Block 10 is down 30ft., and the bottom continues in rich kaolin and iron. The mine was visited to-day by a crowd of people. The winze in the Central mine at the…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 25

Fairfield.—Thirteen days' work from the Lady Jersey Mine, Fairfield, gave a yield of 175oz 3dwt gold. Sunlight Gold-mining Co.—For fortnight…

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Northern Coal Measures. Clarence and Richmond Districts. Official Report

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 28

Mr. T. H. E. David, Geological Surveyor, has furnished the Minister for Mines and Agriculture with the following report on the coal measures of the Clarence and Richmond River districts: These…

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Latest Mining Nows. (Continued From Page 25.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 45

Cooktown.—No. 1 Weat Anglo Saxon Limestone cleaned up on June 6 for 120 tons stone, whick yielded 206oz gold. Burrowa.—Rich gold-bearing stone is reported…

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The Miner. Our Mining Letter. (Written for the " Town and Country Journal.") Mining pursuits having obtained such magnitude and importonce in the colony, and reliable information respecting them being so much sought by the public, we have engaged the services of a gentleman who will from personal inspection contribute to our columns a series of letters on the gold, silver, copper, tin, anti, mony, and other kinds of mining as carried on in the various mining districts. Our special mining correspondent is a gentleman of over 30 years' experience in mining in its various branches and forms, and in the smelting of ores and minerals; and, in addition, he has held important official positions in the colony in respect to mining for many years. Tenterfield District. the Mascot Mine. Tooloom, Boonoo Boonoo. the Boorook Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 24

If all the mines at present being worked within a radius of 50 miles of the town of Fairfield were to be described, some pages of an ordinary-sized newspaper would be required. It is, therefore,…

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General Cable News Gold Payments in the Argentine Republic

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--The Senate of the Argentine Republic has passed a measure suspending payments in gold for a term of six months…

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The Argentine Republic. Payment in Gold Suspended. London, June 12

The Australian Star · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 5

The Senate of the Argentine Republic has passed a measure suspending payment in gold for a period of six months…

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Ascot Heath June Meeting. the Gold Cup. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, June 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 9

The contest for the Gold Cup, the leading event on the programme for the third day of the Ascot June Meeting, took place to-day, with the following result:—…

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