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Mining & the mines, 1893

5,138 stories in Sydney's papers · page 69 of 250

Tasmanian Mining. London, April 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 April 1893 · page 5

The report that the Rio Tinto Copper-mining Company is about to acquire tho Mount Lyell property, Tasmania, is now declared to be untrue…

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Tin and Gold Fields. London, April 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 April 1893 · page 5

The Great Southern Tin and Gold Fields Company, of Victoria, has been registered, with a nominal capital of £100,000. The working capital will be…

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General Cable News. a Victorian Tin and Gold Company

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 April 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night. -- The Great Southern Tin and Gold Mining Company, of Torra, near Western Port, Victoria, has been registered with a capital…

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Victory Gold-mining Company

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 6

An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Victory Gold-mining Company, Limited, was held yesterday at the offices of the Company, Exchange,…

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The Newcastle Coal Mines. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 10

During the fortnight ended on Saturday last the various pits worked as follows:—Brown's collieries, Nos. 2 and 4, 11 days each; Duckenfield tunnel and Stockton, 10 days; Wickham and Bullock…

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The Western Collieries. Reduction in Hewing Rates at New Vale Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 5

LITHGOW, Friday. -- Considerable excitement was created here to-day by a notification to the miners employed at the New Vale pit that hewing rates are to be reduced by…

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Newcastle Notes. Raising the Castor. Sailors' Stabbing Affray. Mining Fatality--The Coal Mines Act --Prosecution of Stockton Colliery Manager. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 6

The Harbors and Rivers Department is engaged in trying to raise the steam hopper barge Castor, which was sunk in the harbor by the s.s. Time on Wednesday…

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Mine-hoisting Machinery. Safety Mining Cages

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 24

A correspondent at Walcha writes asking for information in regard to safety cages for use in the shafts of mines, and we, therefore, take opportunity to give illustrations of some mining cages…

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Mining. Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 6

The half-annual meeting of shareholders in the Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company, Limited, was held at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Mr. J. F. Burns,…

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The Barrier Mines. One Furnace Shut Down at the South Mine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 24

For the week ended April 20, the different Broken Hill mines show crushings as follow:—Block 14: Ore treated 1091 tons, producing 235 tons bullion, containing 23,241oz…

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The Barrier Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 6

BROKEN-HILL, Thursday. -- It has been definitely decided to experiment with hyposulphite of soda, instead of ammonia, in treating the silver-bearing sandstone of the…

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The Western Collieries. Reduction of the Hewing Rates

Evening News · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 4

LITHGOW, Saturday.—A notification to the miners employed at the New Yale pit that hew­ing rates are to be reduced by 6d per ton caused considerable excitement here yesterday. A written…

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Gold in Ecuador

Evening News · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 2

Mr. Haggard, the British Minister in Quito, in his last report mays that hardly a stream issues from the lower elopes of the Andes, either to the Amazon on the east, or…

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Twelve Gold Medals

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 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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Gold for Australia

Evening News · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 4

LONDON, April 28.—The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney has shipped £250,000 sovereigns for Sydney in the Britannia, Fifty thousand pounds in gold…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 12

There were no sales in the Mining market yesterday. Sydney Stock Exchange.—The latest quotations were:…

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Mining Items

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 889

The fifty-ninth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Waratah Coal Company was held this week. The report showed that the expenditure for the half year had been £15,936 7s and the revenue…

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Mining Gossip

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 20

COMPLAINTS are general at Hill End with regard to the holders of Bundry large mining tenements not complying with the labour conditions. Carver and Riley are getting ready a…

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Coal. Newcastle Shipments Intercolonial

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 6

To Victoria ... 791,960 Tons ... New Zealand ... 154,276 ... ... South Australia ... 138,186 ... ... Tasmania ... 69,042…

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A Mining Grievance

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 17

Our Hillston correspondent writes: Owing to the Errehenderry Gold Field not being officially proclaimed as such, much inconvenience and annoyance is experienced by those at work on the field who…

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