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Mining & the mines, 1896

6,248 stories in Sydney's papers · page 81 of 250

Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 7

In the Mining market yesterday there was a run on Junction North shares, which sold on Wednesday up to 18s l½d, and then back to 17s 9d. Yesterday morning this stock opened with a…

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Floating Mining Properties

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Thursday --This week has been a record one for floating mining properties on the London market. The Maori Dream and Maoriland at Kuaotunu,…

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New Mining Enterprise

Evening News · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 7

The prospectors of the Great Pacific Beach Goldmining Company, Murragorang Bay, near Ulladulla, has been issued. The company is being formed to work an enormous deposit of sand…

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Heated Coal Cargoes Newcastle

The Australian Star · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 4

Mr. J. Brooks (Lloyd's surveyor) yesterday made an examination of the heated coal cargoes in the ships Morna and Invermay. In the case of the former it was…

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Brighton Juvenile Amateur Variety Company. Brunner Colliery Disaster Fund

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 6

On Wednesday evening Mr. James Kidman's Brighton Juvenile Amateur Variety Company gave an enjoyable entertainment to an overflowing house, in the Town Hall, Rockdale, in aid of the sufferers…

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The Newcastle Miners. Tie Present Position. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 4

There is very little to report in connection with the mining difficulty. Nearly all the mine managers have been served with 14 days' strike notice. The latest to take…

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A Rattling Good Machine. the Abolition of Coal

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 1

The difficulty of irrigation on the Murrumbidgee and many of our rivers lies in the question of expense. The cost of a pumping machine is not…

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The Crisis in the Coal Trade. the Present Position

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 5

As far as information is at present obtainable, the number of miners who have given in strike notices is about 4000, and the number of men in the Newcastle district who are working in collieries, who…

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The Country. Heated Coal Cargoes. Examination by Lloyd's Surveyor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Thursday --Mr. T. Brooks, Lloyd's surveyor, to-day surveyed the ship Morna and the barque Invermay, the vessels with heated coal on board. On the former 20…

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The Heating of Coal Cargoes. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 5

Mr. T. Brooks, Lyod's surveyor, made another inspection of the coal cargo on board the Norma this morning. He ordered an additional quatity of coal, from 50 to 100 tons, to be taken out, which will…

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Western Australian Goldfields. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 5

The Browu Hill machinery is running well. The crushing plant, amalgamators, cyanide sections, and mill are all at work. The manager hopes to be able to run without further alteration…

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The West Australian Goldfields. Fresh Developments at Cool Gardie

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1896 · page 6

KALGOORLIE, Thursday --The return from Lake View mine for the past fortnight was 517oz. of gold from 180 tons of stone. M'Pherson's Reward Company cleaned up the battery…

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The Northern Collieries. an Increase in the Price of Coal. Action by the Colliery Managers. Effect of Strikes on the Southern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1896 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--One of the earliest effects of the impending strike is an advance in the price of coal. by at least one proprietary, of 1s per ton, which took place yesterday. Sydney…

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The Metropolitan Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1896 · page 6

HELENSBURGH, Friday.--Excepting the Easter holidays, full time has been worked at the Metropolitan colliery during the last fortnight, and fresh important orders continue to…

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Attitude of the Southern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1896 · page 5

HELENSBURGH, Friday.--The labor dispute among the northern collieries is not causing much anxiety amongst tho miners here, and in the event of a strike up north little beyond…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1896 · page 7

The principal Broken-hill stocks were weaker on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Proprietary sold at 46s 6d, then dropped to 45s 9d, but recovered to 46s 9d, closing with…

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Diamond Mines Proprietary

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1896 · page 780

The first half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Australian Diamond Mines Proprietary, Bingara, N.S.W., was held in Melbourne last week. Mr. James Grotty presiding. In moving the adoption of…

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Sydney School of Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1896 · page 753

The following about the Sydney School of Mines appears in the annual report of the Department of Mines for 1895, now in course of publication :—"The School of Mines, which was…

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Gold in Antimony

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 April 1896 · page 24

Antimony ores often contain gold which it is very difficult to extract. Sometimes this gold is free, and sometimes it is a double sulphide of antimony and gold. The quantity of gold when it…

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Quarterly Gold Returns

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1896 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday.--The gold returns of the colony for the quarter ended March 31 amounted to 147,216oz., being an increase of 3776oz. as compared with the corresponding…

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