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Mining & the mines, 1897

5,195 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 250

Late Mining. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 5

To-day's Brisbane Exchange Sales:—South Great Eastern, 1s 4d, 1s 4½d; Queensland Menzies, paid, 29s; M'Clay's Welcome, paid, 2s 6d. Queensland Exchange sales:—No. 1 South Great…

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Mining. a Rich Find

Evening News · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 3

In March last the O'Keefe Brothers, while prospecting in the Mount Misery Ranges, Dereel (Vic.) found a rich reef, 351b weight of gold being obtained in one day from 451b of stone. This was too rich to last…

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Examinations Under the Coal Junes Act

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--The examinations for certificates of competency under the Coalmines Regulation Act commenced at the Technical College yesterday, and were conducted by Mr. W…

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Meetings of Companies. Newcastle-wallsend Coal Company

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 6

The half-yearly meeting of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company was held yesterday at the offices. Bridge-street, Mr. Peter Reid, chairman of directors, presiding. The report stated that business had fallen off during…

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Ministerial Visit to Mining Fields

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 4

The Minister for Mines, accompanied by Messrs. Waddell, Carroll, and T. Brown, Ms.P., and the Chief Inspector of Mines, Mr. Slee, intends to visit the Cobar and Nyngan mining…

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Friday's Mining. Stock Exchange. 11 a.m

The Australian Star · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 5

The following sales wore recorded at the first call on 'Change to-day:-- SILVER. Broken Hill Proprietary, 52s…

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Mining Matters. The Proprietary Co. A Satisfactory Half-Year. Liquid Assets, £607,700-Profits for Half-Year £152,900- Westralian Moms--General Mining Pars and Reports

The Australian Star · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 3

In their report submitted to the shareholders on January 28 the directors of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. deal with the half-year ended November 30,…

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The West Australian Goldfields. Rich Show at Queen Margaret South

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 5

KALGOORLIE, Thursday.--The battery at the Queen Margaret will be started in about four or five weeks. Splendid stone is being raised from the 200ft. level, and the mine is opening up…

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Victorian Coal Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 24

In a return compiled by the Mines Department, Victoria, it is stated that the output of coal from the Gippsland mines during 1890 amounted to 226,562 tons, equal in value at the pit's mouth to…

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Late Mining. Crushing at the Tasmania Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 10

HOBART, Friday. -- The crushing for the month at the Tasmania mine is as follows: -- 2926 tons crushed for a yield of 7030oz. amalgam, which will be retorted tomorrow…

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

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 15

The New South Wales claim treated 378 tons of ore during last year for 2387oz gold, valued at £10,604. West's have cleaned up 45 tons for the Union for 37oz. Channon's are adding a battery…

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The Merewether Miners

The Australian Workman · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 2

There are some people who are ever quick to disparage the coal miners as a class of the industrial community. These individuals are very glib when a strike…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 12

Silver stocks commanded a fair amount of attention on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Proprietary were sold at 52s, closing with buyers at that figure. In North Broken there were several transactions ranging from 11s…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 11

Brilliant and St. George United, C.T., 825 tons, 1000cz. Boulder Main Reef, Kalgoorlie, 259½ tons, 2[?]oz. 13dwt…

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Southern Coal Trade

Evening News · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Saturday.—The coal trade this week has been fairly active generally, and the exports have been well up to the average. Notwithstanding that Tuesday was a public holiday…

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Coal from China

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 14

Tlie "San Francisco Chronicle" says: China has thrown down the gauntlet to the big coal miners of the Pacific coast and to those of the United States, for that matter. The American…

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Miners for West Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 11

A number of miners in this district are accepting engagements to proced to the Murchison (W.A.) goldfields, to work in the mines there at a wage of £3 10s per week. Agents have been…

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Previous Gold Robberies

Evening News · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 3

Nearly twenty years ago 5000 sovereigns were stolen from the P. and O. Company's…

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MINING. Assays

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 260

To set the growing demand for reliable information is connection with [?]ineral discoveries, the proprietors of the Mail have arranged for the services of a competent assayer and mineral expert, who wil,…

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Crushing From the Stayshot Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 10

PERTH, Friday. -- The Stayshot mine at Marble Bar has crushed 32 tons of stone for 49oz. of gold…

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