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Mining & the mines, 1893

5,138 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 250

The Coal Exports

Evening News · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—The exports of coal from this port this week has been 35,145 tons, this districted [?]…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 13

Yesterday being a public holiday, the Exchanges were closed. The following additional sales were reported on Thursday is Gympie and Charters Towers…

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Mining Gossip

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 20

THE Lithgow coal trade is still quiet, the average not exceeding two or three shifts weekly. It was reported that work was to be resumed at Hartley Vale last Monday. The shale mines there have…

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Twelve Gold Medals

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 9

Have, after the severest public tests, been awarded to St. Jacobs Oil for its marvellous power to quickly relieve and conquer pain…

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An Alloy Resembling Gold

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 649

This alloy, by the Menden works, might be substituted for gold, not only because of its colour, but also by reason of certain properties that it possesses. It remains unalterable, without any modification of its…

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Mining Opinions and Assays

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 669

PROSPECTOR (Narrandera).—The sample forwarded by you is "brown iron ore." Its component parts are:—Iron oxide, 83dwt. 3grs.; Silica, 5dwt. 6 grs.; moisture, 11dwt. Total 99dwt. 9grs. The above figures…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 10

The coal trade has been fairly brisk considering the present state of affairs. The export this week has been 35,145 tons, thus distributed:—Victoria, 12,490 tons; United States, 8873 tons; New Zealand, 5703…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 25

New Emerald Proprietary Company. —Mr. D. M. O'Donnell, the local director of the New Emerald Proprietary Company, has 6000 carats of emeralds on hand, also a large quantity…

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Run. Alexander Brown and Miners Strikes. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 4

Sir,—In the course of his speech on the Newcastle Pasturage Reserve Bill, Mr. Alexander Brown took occasion to say that "strikes were not always duo to employees; "sometimes they were cased by the…

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Hon. Alexander Brown and Miners' Strikes. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 10

Sir,--In the course of his speech on the Newcastle Pasturage Reserve Bill, Mr. Alexander Brown took occasion to say that "strikes were not always due to employes…

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The Helensburgh Mining Award. a Statement of the Case

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 4

The Helensburgh minors employed in the Metropolitan Colliery have withdrawn the notice which would have resulted in the men leaving the mine during the coming…

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Law for the People. Mining Act (Pegging a Lease)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 45

As I was looking through some volumes of the law reports I was surprised to find a large number of cases in which the title of original applicants to gold-mining leaaas had been upset on the ground…

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The Helensburgh Dispute. Award of the Arbitration Court Adopted by the Miners. HELENSBURGH

The Australian Star · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 6

The Helensburgh miners have withdrawn the 14 days' notice given by them to the manager, and have agreed to continue work on the terms of the arbitrators…

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Book Iii.—a Land of Gold. Chapter Xxiv.—murderer's Gully— Six Mysterious Sailors

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 13

Pass we over a few weeks of time, and change we the scene to a Victorian goldfield called M'I vor,, a dismal flat, or nearly so, surrounded by hills, and with a small…

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Mining at Gundagai. M'inerney's Claim. Deep Alluvial Workings. No. 2

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 24

I next left, accompanied by Mr. White, the police magistrate of the Gundagai district, upon a visit of inspection to the great alluvial mining property known as M'Inemey's. Passing over…

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Mining. the Hillgrove Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 7

HILLGROVE, Saturday. -- West Sunlight Gold-mining Company: The contractors started sinking the main shaft on Monday last, meeting with the usual good working…

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A Colliery Disaster. Explosion in an American Mine. Twenty-five Persons Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.--New York telegrams report a disastrous explosion at the Shamokf Colliery in the State of Pennsylvania. The explosion was caused by gases…

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Coal and Shale Export

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 7

On the last day of March the Burns line iron barque Altcar cleared with 13[?]7 tons shale for Liverpool and a quantity of tallow, copra, and sundries, details of which are given elsewhere. There are loading shale, or to load,…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 9

To-day being a holiday, the mining exchanges were closed. Mr. Herbert Douglas, New South Wales director for the Rockvale Freehold Gold-mining…

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Mining in New Zealand

Evening News · Monday 3 April 1893 · page 4

LONDON, April 1.—Mr. Merricks, a partner in the firm of Edward Riley and Company, metallurgists, mining engineers, &c, of London, is about to visit New Zealand, in…

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