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Mining & the mines, 1895

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General Cable News. West Australian Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday Night.--The West Australian Gold Exploration Company offered £23,000 to the public, and the amount is stated to have been…

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Intercolonial Mining News New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 26

MUDGEE, February 14.—Laing's Perseverance Battery of 15 head was started at Hargraves yesterday by Mr. Robert Jones, M.L.A. There was a large…

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Mining on the Barrier. Smelting Returns

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 26

Central Broken Hill Silver Mining Company, week ended February 14.— 258 tons ore treated, yield 87 tons 10cwt bullion, containing 5143oz…

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Latest Mining News. Wyalong. Latest Crushings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 18

WYALONG, February 14.—A decision was given in Barmedman a day or two ago by Sir. Warden Clarke which has given general satisfaction to the busines…

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Tasmania. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Important Gold Discovery. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 9

An important gold discovery has been made at Black Bluff, 30 miles from Ulverstone, the prospectors, Moon and Alcock, finding near the Golden Cliff property a 10ft. reef of friable stone…

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The Straw, the Coal, & the Bean. (An old fairy tale, sent by Maude Shelley.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 13

In a village there lived a poor old woman, who had one day gathered a dish of beans, and was going to boil them. So she laid a fire on her hearth, and to make…

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Newcastle Miners. The Minmi Ballot. Duckenfield and Back Creek. West Wallsend and Seaham--Future Meeting's--Present Difficulties. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 6

Complete returns of the ballot at Minmi for or against accepting the proposals made by the management of Duckenfield and Back Creek collieries give a majority of 77…

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West Macquarie. Jottings by the Way. Mining in the District. Back Crook and Rookley--Rominiscences of the Old Days

The Australian Star · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 7

"BACK CREEK, Rockley, 2nd February, 1895.--Dear Doctor,--I have found you at last. Come up here after receiving this. I have a splendid gold property, equal to…

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Father Curran on the Wyalong Goldfield

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 16

WEST WYALONG, Wednesday.— The Rev. J. Milne Curran, who is inspecting the Wyalong goldfield, Gays that the discovery of artesian water is impossible, but that an ample supply of pure water will…

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[By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) the Garangula Goldfield. Murrumburrah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 10

Manley and party have finished crushing and cleaned up yesterday morning. Only a small lot of stone was put through—16 tons, from which 39oz. 3dwt, 16gr, of amalgam was obtained, which gave…

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Goldfields of Western Australia. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 9

The New Chum shareholders have sanctioned the sala of the mine to a London company for £40,000 and £40,000 in shares. The capital of the company is £160,000, with £10,000 reserve…

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The New Goldfield at Bywong

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 407

Forty years ago the Rev. W. B. Clarke, an eminent Australian geologist, whose predictions have rarely been, falsified, indicated that some day considerable auriferous wealth would be…

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The Toolong Goldfield

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 407

Several of the claims are turning out very well, others again are only making tucker, and some barely that. What is badly wanted for the proper development of the place is a few practical…

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The Wyalong Goldfield. Father Curran's Opinion

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 4

WYALONG, Friday.--Messrs. Smith, Byrnes, and party are down 130ft., and the drive in at 100ft. cut the reef carrying gold. They are sinking to the water level…

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Mining and Finance. the Mines and the Mining Market

Sunday Times · Sunday 24 February 1895 · page 3

"I would have everyone write what he knows, and as much as he knows, but no more." —MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS…

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Albion Gold Mine, Cobar. Phenomenally Rich Returns, Sixth Dividend Declared

Truth · Sunday 24 February 1895 · page 5

NEWS has been received from Cobar substantiating the report we published some weeks back, as to the phenomenal richness of thin mine. The Directors bare just…

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The Coal Trade. the Northern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 February 1895 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Following upon the rejection of the reductions made by the proprietors of Duckenfield and Back Creek collieries, the men occupying houses upon…

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The Cremorne Coal. the New Colliery Company

Evening News · Monday 25 February 1895 · page 4

LONDON, February 24.-The company promoted by Mr. James Inglis to work the coal seams at Cremorne has been registered as the Sydney…

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The Southern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 February 1895 · page 5

CLIFTON, Saturday.--During the past fortnight the South Bulli, Kembla, and Keira collieries were amongst those doing the most, but the last-named worked only…

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Sydney Harbour Collieries Company. London, Feb. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 February 1895 · page 5

The Sydney Harbour Collieries Company, which has been registered with a capital of £500,000, will issue 34,000 £10 7 per cent, preference shares on Tuesday…

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