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Mining & the mines, 1897

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 15

From Hill End it is reported that the Consolidated Syndicate crushed 50 tons for 89oz. The tributers at the Cornelian crushed 50 tons for a little over 50oz of gold. It is stated that they have received…

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The Engineer Corps. Submarine Miners' Camp. Inspection by General French

Evening News · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 3

The annual seventeen days' continuous training of No. 3 (Submarine Miners) Company of the Corps of Engineers will be broken up to-day Yesterday the camp was…

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Late Mining. South Mount Lyell. Melbourne

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

The annual meeting of the South Mount Lyell Company, Tasmania, was held to-day. The report stated that in the course of a couple of months the directors hoped to have machinery erected which…

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The Engineers' Camp. Submarine Mines Successfully Exploded. Inspection by the General

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 12

The Submarine Miners encamped at their headquarters, Chowder Bay, put in a hard day's work yesterday. They underwent two separate inspections--that of the officer commanding the corps…

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Execution of Bosher. Hanged at Wellington. He Makes a Confession. The Potone Murder Case-- A Frenchman's Remarkable Crime-- All for Gold

The Australian Star · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 3

Bosher, the Frenchman sentenced to death for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, at Petone (N.Z.), last year, was executed at 8 o'clock on April 21…

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Australian Mining Interview With the Rev. Joseph Campbell. Treatment of Refractory Ores. An Important Discovery-- Feeling [?]n London-- Future Prospects

The Australian Star · Saturday 1 May 1897 · page 5

Among the geologists of Australia, and particularly those who devote their attention to the practical geology of mining, the Rev. Joseph Campbell, M.A.,…

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New Guinea Goldfields. COOKTOWN

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

The schooner Ivanhoe arrived from New Guinea last night with 32 passengers, many of whom are suffering from fever. Several of the sufferers were carried ashore. A man named Taylor died on the…

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Mining and Finance. Yesterday's Stock and Share Quotations. Our Letter-box.to Correspondents

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 May 1897 · page 3

[Letters marked " Mining" must reach us not alter than Thursday. No notioe is taken of [?]correspondence. The coupon printed in the " Free Information " column must be cut out…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 7

The business done on the Sydney Stock Exchange on Saturday was trilling. Quotations showed no material change. The manager of the Ivanhoe Company reports that…

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Southern Coal Trade

Evening News · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Monday.—A combination of circumstances—the Easter holidays, scarcity oil water, and the boisterous weather—all tended to. have [?]depressing influence on the coal mining…

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East Greta Coal Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 9

The eleventh half-yearly report of the directors of the East Greta Coal-mining Company, Limited, has just been issued in Newcastle and a meeting of shareholers has been called for Wednesday next…

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MINING. Stockyard Creek

Evening News · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 3

Since my last report (writes our Bendemeer correspondent) the warden has visited this field, and was hig[?]ly impressed with the Prospectors' show. The reef is still going into the hill, retaining its width…

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Mining at Parkes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 9

The want of rain is interfering with the mining as well as the pastoral and agricultural industrics. Burgess and Smith's battery is hung up from this cause. A new manager has been appointed for the…

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Mining Company Shares

Evening News · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 6

LONDON, May 1.—The following are the closing quotations on the Stock Exchange for Australian mining shares, with the movement during the past fortnight: Lake…

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Mining Managers' Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 3

The Broken Hill Proprietary Block. 14 Company, Limited. week ended April 21:—400ft. level: No. 2 crosscut, north drive, stopped owing to holidays and water rising. 300ft. level: No. 1 winze north total [?]0ft.; still very hard;…

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The Submarine Miners. The Annual Camp

The Australian Star · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 6

Notwithstanding the difficulty which is fever present regarding the annual course of continuous training ashore, the Submarine Miners, a section of the…

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

The Australian Star · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 5

There were no sales at the first call on Change, to-day…

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BLOCK 14 and South Mines. Half-yearly Inspection. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 9

Block 14 mill did good work last week[?] treating 2200 [?]es, yeilding 888 tons concentrates and [?]nes. The week's despatches were 1163 tons, including 267 tons sulphide concentrates forwarded to…

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The Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 May 1897 · page 3

PERTH, Sunday.--The Lady Shenton mine at Monzies, from March 29 to April 29, crushed 340 tons of ore for 1384oz. of smelted gold. The tailings assay 2oz. Two tons of concentrates not…

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Accident in a Coal-mine

The Australian Star · Tuesday 4 May 1897 · page 6

'A' fall of coal occurred at the Metropolitan Co.'s mine, at Helensburg, South Coast line to-day, by which a miner named David Ridley, aged 42, was…

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