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Mining & the mines, 1896

6,248 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

Glen Alice Coal and Shale Mining Company (Capertee)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 6

The first ordinary meeting was held yesterday. The report congratulated the shareholders that the outcrops of shale had been proved to he almost continuous throughout…

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The Glen Alice Coal and Shale Mining Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 12

The first ordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Glen Alice Coal and Shale Mining Company, Capertee, No Liability, was held yesterday at Minerva-chambers, Pitt-street, Mr. E. A. Antrobus,…

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The Mining Boom. Its Rise and Progress. The Iain Causes of the "Boom." The Rand Goldfields--Mining Experts--The Financial Aspect--The Great Boulder Mine

The Australian Star · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 8

For the past two or three years the attention of the financial world has been centred upon the "mining boom" which has been gathering force and increasing in…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 6

Messrs. H. G. Norton and Co. report having secured the Young Bushman mine at Goobang, near Parkes. The mine was formerly known as the Homeward Bound. The area…

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To Miners and prospectors

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 21

We have much pleasure in announcing to our Subsribers interested in Mining that we have com­pleted arrangements for furnishing accurate and reliable information in regard to mineral ore and rock samples…

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The North Bulli Mine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 35

CLIFTON, Tuesday.—A large number of men have been thrown out of work by the closing down of the Austinmer Colliery, commonly known as the North Bulli Mine, and which has been for some…

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The Junction North Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday.--At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Junction North Company to-day the chairman. Mr. H. Shepherd, stated that since the commencement…

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Mining Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 5

COOMA, Friday.--A man named Gordon was killed this morning through a fall of earth at the sluicing works. Big Badja mine. The coroner has gone out to the scene of the fatality…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 12

A fair amount of business was transacted in the Mining market yesterday. There was very little doing at the morning meeting of the Exchange, one copper and one gold-mining stock…

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Beach Mining

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 460

With the object of ascertaining the extent of work already done on the areas of auriferous beach sand on the northern coast, and also with the object of seeing what could be done to further develop this…

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At the Coal River

Evening News · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 2

Three weeks afterwards they were both double-ironed, put on board a Government, Vessel, and conveyed to Newcastle. Nearly two years were passed there in all sorts of…

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The Broken-hill Junction Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 6

There was a marked decline in the value of Broken-hill Junction shares yesterday. There seems to be no reason for the "slump" other than market manipulation. Acting on…

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The Thirst for Gold

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 9

This little bill has been due a good long while," said a long-suffering creditor to an intellectual debtor the other day. "Can't you nettle it?"…

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Recent Mining Conference

Evening News · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 5

ADELONG, Saturday.—At a public meeting last evening the delegate to the recent Mining Conference (Mr. A. W. Molineaux) reported the business transacted by the conference. A vote…

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The Coal Trade. CLIFTON

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 460

The Austinmer colliery, commonly known as the North Bulli mine, aud which has been for some years leased by Mr. Joseph Mitchell, has been closed down; consequently a large number…

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Nymagee Copper-mining Company

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Nymagee Copper-mining Company was held yesterday at the company's offices, Pitt-street, Mr. G. N. Griffiths (chairman of…

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Miscellaneous. New Mining Companies

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 16

London, February 24.—Hannan's South Brown Hill Gold Mining Company, West Australia, which has been formed with a capital of £6100,000, is issuing shares to the extent of £35,000…

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Mining Opinions and Assays

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 464

Too.—It is impossible to say on burnt ore what it may contain without ascertaining by assay…

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Reward for Deep Mining

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 February 1896 · page 460

The Minister for Mines, in his address to the Mining Conference, announced that, with the view of encouraging the development of our mineral resources at a greater depth than had been…

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