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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

6,248 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 250

Broken-hill Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 6

BROKEN-HILL,. Friday.--A trial run of the Block 10 crushing and jigging plant was made this afternoon, and the extensive and complicated machinery moved almost perfectly…

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New Mining Companies

Evening News · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph

LONDON, March 12.—The Waihi Consolidated Gold Mining Company, New Zealand, has been formed with a capital of £200,000, of which £130,000 is being issued for public…

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By wong and Dairy Creek Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 564

Recently Mr. W. H. J. Slee, F.G.S., &c, Chief Inspector of Mines, visited the Bywong and Dairy Creek mines, and has famished a report to the Under-Secretary for Mines and Agriculture. In his…

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The Reward for Gold Discovery

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 22

THE following appears in the Government Gazette over the signature of the Minister for Mines :—Notice is hereby given that a reward of one thousand (£1000)…

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Water for Mining Purposes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 21

Not only might the water thus conserved be used for irrigation purposes, but it might also bo used for mining purposes where and when necessary and profitable. It is currently asserted…

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The Proposals of the Minister for Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 6

Mr. Sydney Smith's proposals, made with a view to stimulate the mining industry in New South Wales, are still the subject of controversy in the mining centres. The…

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Mining Managers' Reports. Managers' Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 10

Birthday Gold-mining Company, Parkes, March 13.The cleaning up of the crushing of SO tons will be tomorrow, and Messrs Smith and Drake will bring down the cake of gold with them The mining manager has been…

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Lake George and Buck Creek Mining

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 15

The following report by Mr. W. H. J. Slee, the Chief Inspector of Mines, on the new rush at Back Creek and the Lake George Mining Company's property at Captain's Flat has…

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Back Creek and Lake George Mining

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 564

Mr W. H. J. Slee, F.G.S., &c, Chief Inspector of Mines, has reported as follows to the Undersecretary for Mines and Agriculture:—"I do myself the honour to inform you that…

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New Mining Companies. London, March 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 9

The Waihi Consolidated Gold-mining Company, New Zealand, has been formed with a capital of £200,000, of which £130,000 is being issued for public…

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The Gold Fields. Auriferous Gravels the Macquarie Beds

Evening News · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 3

The gold-bearing gravels of the Macqosrie River are now beginning to attract the attention of mining men. These gravels form what is supposed to be the old bed of the Macqnarie River, which in prehistoric…

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The Storyteller The Grey Man. Chapter Xxi.—about Mine Ancient Sweetheart

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 550

After he was gone I cast in my mind, and for the life of me I could not decide whether the fellow had been lying to me or not. It was indeed a thing to be wondered at that this chance scoundiel…

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A Point in Mining Law. MUDGEE, March 6

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 567

At the Police Court to-day the Bank of New South Wales prosecuted John Finn for trespassing and mining without authority on certain land at Cooyal held by the bank as mortgagee. The defence…

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The Recent Mining Conference. Paper Read by Mr. Thomas Brown

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 45

This conference has been convened for the purpose of suggesting improvements, in the legislative and administrative machinery under which the great mining Industry of the colony is carried on. If practical…

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The Miner. The Cyanide Process. Plant Used on South African Mines. (See illustrations on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 24

The following article is an abstract of a paper by Messrs. Charles Butters and Edgar Smart, in the proceedings of the British Institution of Civil Engineers:…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued from page 25.) Broken Hill South Company. Three Blocks to Be Formed Into a New Company. Proposal to Reduce the Number of Directors

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 15

Mr. J. F. Levien, M.L.A., presided over the fifth half-yearly meeting of the Broken Hill South Silver Mining Company, held in Melbourne last The directors' report for the half-year ended…

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Mining and Finance. the Mines and the Mining Market

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 March 1896 · page 3

"Possibly the most potent factor in raising Colonial credit, and in ultimately reducing the interest payable annually by the colonies, would be the joint and several guarantee of all for each…

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The Coal Trouble

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 March 1896 · page 4

IT seems that there is nearly always a coal trouble—a strike threatening, or on. At present the rumblings of a coming labor storm are heard in the Newcastle district…

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The Coolgardie Goldfields (To the Editor of the "Sunday Times.")

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 March 1896 · page 5

SIR,—Permit me as a constant reader of your paper to say a few words with reference to these fields, aud to impress upon the public of Sydney the best way of investing a little…

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