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Mining & the mines, 1897

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 7

The Mines Department announce that rewards will be paid for the discovery of new reefing or alluvial gold or tin fields, or new deposits of silver, copper, diamonds, or precious opal. If…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 7

[?]and and Albion Consols, 480 tons (16 tons pyrites, 20oz.), 79oz. Great Eastern mine, Lawler's, 618 tons, 1146oz. Mount Magnet, Marchison, 190 tons, 360oz…

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Southern Coal Trade

Evening News · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Friday.—The southern coal trade this week has been of a very brisk character as far as this end of the district is concerned. Shipping operations have been carried on with…

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West Australian Mines. Chat With Captain Treloar. Varied Mining Experience. The Early Days--Eureka Stockade--Westralian Properties--Merits of the Mines

The Australian Star · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 5

During the past few days Captain Treloar, one of the pioneers of Coolgardie, has been in Sydney. on a visit of business and pleasure combined, and…

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Alluvial Gold Struck

Evening News · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 2

Good coarse gold has bees stuck at a depth [?] 20ff at Bryant's Cairn Curra Station, at Baringhun by Hamilton and party, says telegram from Maldon (Vic.). There is 5ft of cold-bearing wash, and the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 7

Owing to the Sydney Stock Exchange being closed for the holidays, there are no official transactions or quotation, to report, and there was no business doing in the open market yesterday…

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Victorian Mining Industry

Evening News · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 2

Mr. Henry Gore, C.E.M.E., ex-M.L.A., the well known Ballarat mining expert, who has been on the visit to London, was interiewed, by a representative of the "British Australaian,'and in the issue of…

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MINING. The Lady Hampton

Evening News · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 2

What is popularly known as the Lady [?] "rig " is causing great excitement in the We [?] tralian market and outsiae it (writes the [?] Man" in the British Australasian," of [?]…

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The Southern Coal Trade. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 5

The southern coal trade during the year which [?] to-day has surpassed all previous records. The official figures are not yet available, but it is known that the quantity exported represents a very…

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New Gold Discovery. Excitement at Pambula

Evening News · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 4

PAMBULA, Friday.—A new and important gold discovery has been reported from Jingera. The discovery was made by Mr. Libby, manager in charge of the Jingera Mineral Proprietary's…

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Mining Matters. The Norseman Goldfield. An Interesting Report. The Water Difficulty--Abandoned Claims--Development of Others-- The Labour Conditions of W.A. Notes in General

The Australian Star · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 2

The inspector of mines on the Norseman goldfield has furnished the Westralian Mines Department with a report on the field. He says that mining on…

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The Barrier Mines. a Review of the Past Year. And a Forecast

Evening News · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 8

BROKEN HILL, December 31.—The year's work at the Broken Hill mines has borne out to a large extent the forecast with which I furnished the readers of the "Evening News" twelve months ago…

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The Murchison Goldfield. Affairs at Mount Magnet A Sydney Man's Experience

The Australian Star · Friday 1 January 1897 · page 3

With the extension of the railway from Geraldton to Mount Magnet and Cue in the Murchison gold fields new life has been infused into the district,…

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Electric Plant of a Coal Mine. (See illustrations on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 January 1897 · page 24

One of the most interesting electrically-operated coal properties in the Pennsylvania field is that of the Youghiogheny River Coal Company at Scott Haven, Pa. The mines in which the different…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued from page 25.) The Hillgrove Gold Field

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 January 1897 · page 15

The following crushings, etc., were reported last week: Baker's Creek battery cleaned up, the yield being 396oz 12dwt of smelted gold from 498 tons of stone—403 tons being from Smith's reef and 95…

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Tasmania. the Tasmania Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 January 1897 · page 10

HOBART, Friday.—The Tasmania mine, during December, crushed 3734 tons for 3107oz. retorted gold, an average of 16dwt. 15 grains per ton, and 205oz. from the chlorination works, of the…

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The Monte Cristo Mine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 January 1897 · page 24

This is the property of Captain Rogers, and has been more than once described in this journal. The Monte Cristo Mine is famous all over the country. Its proprietor, an old man, and an…

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Turquoise Mines of Persia

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 January 1897 · page 16

The British Vice-Consul at Meshed, Persia, describes in his last report a visit which he paid to the famous turquoise mines of Nishapur, in Northern Persia, which are believed to be the only…

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Gold in Wales

The Australian Star · Saturday 2 January 1897 · page 8

A correspondent at Towyn, Merionethshire, reports that a discovery of gold- dust has been made in the estuary of the river Mawddach, at Barmouth…

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Wyalong Gold Field

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 January 1897 · page 25

The following news has come to hand from Wyalong during the week: Kaysfor and party crushed 6 tons from their 36in formation and seconds from the Young Australian Mine for 9oz…

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