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Mining & the mines, 1896

6,248 stories in Sydney's papers · page 75 of 250

News by Cable. Matabeleland. The Native Rising. Cablegram to Lord Gifford. The Position very Serious. Mining Operations Suspended. Mr. Cecil Rhodes at Umtali

Evening News · Wednesday 1 April 1896 · page 6

LONDON, March 31.—Lord Gifford, V.C., one of the directors of the British South Africa Company, has received a cablegram stating that the position of affairs at…

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Western Australian Goldfields. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) Coolgardie, March 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 April 1896 · page 5

The Hill End mine has crushed 53 tons for 284oz. 5dwt. of smelted gold. ESPERANCE, March 30. Mr. Maunder, well known in Perth, succumbed…

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The West Australian Goldfields. Heavy Falls of Rain. Twelve Months Supply of Water

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 April 1896 · page 5

COOLGARDIE, Tuesday.--The crushing of 200 tons of stone from the Lady Loch mino is being proceeded with at Bayley's No. 1 South battery, and the result will be…

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The Newcastle Crisis. Orders for Coal Refused A Strike Anticipated. One Hundred Hands Out at the A.A. Borehole Pit -- The Strikers Not to be Re-Engaged. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Wednesday 1 April 1896 · page 6

Anticipating a strike Mr. Croudace, general manager of the Scottish-Australian Mining Co., has refused two large orders for coal, one for 4000 tons and the other…

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The Northern Collieries. the Pending Conference. Borehole Mine Shut Down

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 April 1896 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--Only languid interest is being felt regarding the mining conference which is to take place to-morrow, owing to the poor response on the…

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Importation of Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 April 1896 · page 6

BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--Recently a batch of miners reached here under engagement to the Central mine. A further batch of 36 arrived this morning by the…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 April 1896 · page 7

The marked feature of yesterday's business on the Sydney Stock Exchange was the all-round decline of Broken-hill shares. Proprietary sold from 45s to 44s, closing buyer 43s 6d, seller 44s…

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Diamond Mines Proprietary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 April 1896 · page 9

The first half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Australian Diamond Mines Propnotary, Biugara, N.S.W., was held in Melbourne on Monday, Mr. James Crotty presiding. In moving the adoption of…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 April 1896 · page 9

There was less business in the Mining market yesterday, and greater weakness generally in prices Broken Hill Propertary again had a good deal of attention, the low prices continuing to…

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The Morna's Heated Coal Cargo

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 April 1896 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--The heated coal on board the ship Morna has not yet been removed. The vessel is waiting for a berth at the Dyke, where she will load…

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The Gold Fields. Crow Mountain

Evening News · Thursday 2 April 1896 · page 7

The Crow Mountain gold field is situated adjacent to the belt of serpentine rock extending through Noodle and Bingara, and which is worked for various ores with some degree of [?]tinuity for a length of…

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A Rich Gold Discovery. Tumbekumba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 April 1896 · page 9

Another rich reef has hean discovered on the Upper Murray, about 40 miles south-east of Tumberumba, towards Mount Kosciusko. It is situated on a steep mountain side, and consists of a splendid…

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The Brunner Colliery Disaster. a Relief Fund in Melbourne. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 April 1896 · page 7

A meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held in the Town Hall this afternoon to take steps to open a relief fund in connection with the Brunner Colliery disaster. The Chief Justice moved a…

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The Crisis in the Coal Trade. Further Refusals to Join in the Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 April 1896 · page 7

There can now be little doubt that the hopes which had been expressed by some of the coal-owners and by some of the miners that a representative conferebce would be got together with regard to the…

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The West Australian Goldfields. Some New Discoveries

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 April 1896 · page 6

ROEBOURNE, Wednesday.--A parcel of 81½ tons of stone from the White Angel mine, Marble Bar, was put through the battery a fortnight ago, the result being an average of…

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The Southern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 3

BULLI, Thursday.--The coal trade of the district this week has shown an improvement as compared with some time past. Most of the collieries have worked well. In…

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The New Zealand Colliery Disaster. History of the Brunner Mine. the Presence of Fire-damp

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 3

The Brunner is the oldest working mine in the colony. It was discovered in 1853 by the late Sir Julius Von Haast when exploring the then unknown solitudes of the…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 7

All Broken-hill silver shares showed a good improvement on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. It would seem that Proprietary reached bedrock price when they touched 44s,…

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Government Aid for Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 3

Members of a new organisation designated "The Surplus Labor League" were introduced by Mr. J. M. Chanter, M.P., to the Minister for Mines yesterday, with a request that he would…

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Tasmanian Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 April 1896 · page 7

LAUNCESTON, Thursday.--Sir Edward Braddon has been asked by the London directors of the Anchor tin mine to state the cost of erecting a battery. He has replied…

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