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Mining & the mines, 1896

6,248 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 250

Gold Beneath the Lava

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 335

The great lava flow covers a section of country in Idaho 400 miles in length by 40 to 60 miles in width. It lies in the south-eastern part of the State, on and along the course of the Snake River, and mostly on…

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The Mining Conference

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 339
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

1. Inaugural Address by the Minister for Mines. 2. Rush of Delegates with Papers. DELEGATES TO THE MINING CONFERENCE, 1893…

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West Australian Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday Night.--The All Nations Gold-mining Company, Dundas, West Australia, has been formed with a capital of £100,000, and is…

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Mining Correspondence Association

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 9
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Those delegates to the recent Mining Conference who were in town on Thursday night met in the hall in Phillip-street for the purpose of discussing the desirableness of…

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Fatal Mining Accidents

Evening News · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 4

ARMIDALE, Saturday.—At the Great Britain Company's Mine, Tilbuster, yesterday afternoon, as a bucket containing several hundredweight of mullock was being raised from the shaft, which…

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Broken-hill Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Friday, 3 p.m.--Shares in the Broken-hill Proprietary mine are quoted on the Stock Exchange at £2 10s, a fall of 5s…

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The Mining Conference

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 338

A conference of representative miners from all districts in the colony was opened in Sydney on Feb. 5. The Minister for Mines (the Hon. S. Smith. M.L.A.) presided…

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Northern Beach Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 6

MACLEAN, Friday.--M'Aulay Brothers, who first found the well-known beach lead at Jerusalem Creek, have discovered that the same lead extends in the vicinity of Jackey's Creek…

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British Gniana and its Gold

Evening News · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 4

The chief industry in British Guiana is sugar-growing, but owing to the bounties of Prance and Germany the cheap bounty-fed sugar has captured the market, and sugar-growng in the West Indies…

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Mining Patents and Inventions

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 357

Mr. Edward Waters (Fred Walsh, manager), 23 Elizabeth-street, reports that the following applications for letters patent and certificates of provisional protection (the latter denoted by an asterisk) have…

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Mining at Crow Mountain

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 356

The famous Dodger mine maintains its reputation, for the reef seems to be more and more studded with gold as the depth, of the shaft is increased. Gold can be seen projecting from the reef all down…

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A West Australian Mine. London, February 13

The Australian Star · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 6

The Nations Gold-mining Co., Dundas, West Australia, is being floated in London with a capital of £100,000. Shares to the value of…

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New Mining Company. London, Feb. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 9

The All Nations Gold-mining Company, Dundas, Weslern Australia, which has been formed with a capital of £100,000, is issuing shares to the extent of £45,000…

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[For rest of proceedings, see Mining Columns.]

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 338

Cane-seated chair bottoms that have sagged may be mde as tight as ever by washing them with hot soap-suds and leaving them to dry ia the open air…

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Methodism and the Working Classes. Wesley and the Miners of Cornwall

The Methodist · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 1

When Wesley and his local preachers went to the miners of Cornwall and they made Methodism the dominant faith in those districts for…

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Newcastle News. The Colliery Troubles, Strike of Wheelers. Newcastle Licensed Victuallers -- An Assigned Estate. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 11

The notice given by the wheelers employed at the Burwood colliery expired yesterday evening. They absolutely refuse to resume work unless they are paid…

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Charge of Theft. Against a Mining Registrar. BRISBANE

The Australian Star · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 11

The police have received a telegram from Gympie to the effect that Richard Riley, formerly police magistrate and gold warden at Cloncurry, and recently mining…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued from page 24.) Intercolonial News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 February 1896 · page 16

Bennett's and the Proprietary oattoriea, Peak Hill, hare again starked crashing. At the Myall United' Mine over 400 tons of stone is at grass, expected to yield 3oz to the ton…

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