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Mining & the mines, 1897

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 April 1897 · page 7

There was very little animation in the share market yesterday, and stocks generally showed a weakening tendency. British Broken-hill shares were in demand, but there were no declared…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 April 1897 · page 7

Birthday G.M. and Q.C. Company, Parkers, 100 tons, 640z. 17dwt. Burbank's mine, Coolgardie (month), 340 tons, 766oz, North Star mine, Coolgardie, C. T., 150 tons, 420oz…

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The West Australian Goldfields. Another. Dividend Mine. Telluride at Broad Arrow

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 April 1897 · page 6

COOLGARDIE, Tuesday.--Burbank's Birthday Gift Company have crushed 360 tons for 766oz., and have declared a dividend of one shilling per share…

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The Junction North Mine. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 April 1897 · page 7

Just lately your correspondent visited the damaged section of the Junction North shaft between the 470ft. and 520ft. levels, About 20ft. at the back of the former level the men are busily…

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The Coal Trade. Proposed Increase in the Selling Price

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 April 1897 · page 6

A movement is believed to be on foot just now towards re-forming the Colliery Proprietors' Association, with the object of revising the scale in. the selling prices of coal. Nothing definite has…

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Mining Matters. Colonial Mining Reports. Defective and Misleading. A Complaint From England--Norseman Mining--The Central Mine-- Notes and Reports

The Australian Star · Friday 30 April 1897 · page 7

It has lately been our privilege, writes Captain Longridge in Saturday's "Mining Journal," to review a number of Government reports on colonial raining…

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The West Australian Gold Fields. Rich Reef Struck in the Credo Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 April 1897 · page 5

KALGOORLIE, Thursday.--Magnificent specimens were brought in to-day from the Credo mine, six miles from Broad Arrow. The stows shows telluride and free gold, remarkably rich,…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 April 1897 · page 7
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On the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday half a dozen West Australian stocks were dealt in. Great Boulder were disposed of at £7 3s and £7 6s, with further buyers at the latter figure, which is an…

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Western Australian Mining. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 April 1897 · page 6

A good find has been made in Ha[?]'s Golden group, adjoining the Kalgoorlie Proprietary. At a depth of 290ft. the lode was cut in crosscutting. It is several feet wide, and for…

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Chief Inspector of Coal Mines

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 955

The retirement last year of the late Examiner of Coalfields rendered it necessary that a Chief Inspector of Coalmines should be appointed without delay, and in order that the department…

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Late Mining. the Clermont Gold Rush

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 11

BRISBANE, Friday.--The warden at Clermont has wired to the Under-Secretary for Mines as follows:-- "Receiving wires from New South Wales and other places [?]the jubilee rush. Am trying to stop people…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 12

There was a marked improvement on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday, the announcement of another dividend by the Great Boulder Company appearing to act as a sort of restorative of confidence. Boulders were…

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Export of Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 10

The week ended to-day has been a very busy one in the coal trade, no less a quantity than 53,621 tons of coal having been exported to foreign and intercolonial ports, as against 31,414 tons for the…

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The Coal Trade

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 953

Work at the various collieries has been fairly brisk during the past fortnight. Owing to the intervention of the Easter holidays, nine days instead of 11 constitute full time. The number of days…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 953

Considerable interest is being taken in the Auckland distrust in a new process of treating quartz, which the New Zealand Grown Mines Company, Karangahake, has adopted with great success. The…

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MINING. Assays

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 953

To meet the growing demand for reliable information in connection with mineral discoveries, the proprietors of the MAIL have arranged for the services of a competent assayer and mineral expert. who will…

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Work of the Mines Department

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 9

The Minister for Mines has recently had a return prepared showing the progress made with the work in his department, and he is gratified at what he regards as the satisfactory condition in…

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Mining Assays and Opinions

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 956

J. L. T.—Yes, there is a market in Sydney for bismuth ores of high grade. Refer to Mr. S. S. Vale, 20 Castleresgh-street, fur information. Inquirer.—These three samples are all Che same mineral—…

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Country News. the Southern Coal Trade. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 9

To-day coal-loading operations have been briskly carried on at the Woolongong and district jetties. At Belmore Basin the Steamer Merksworth loaded 330 tons; the Palmerston, 500 tons; and the Loch…

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