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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Mining

Evening News · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 7
Also in The Daily Telegraph

AYALONG, Thursday.-The prospects for the coming year are decidedly encouraging. A number of claims are now in a position to come upon large quantities of backs, consequently there is…

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MINING. Assays

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 46

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 wil…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 9

Owing to the Sydney Stock Exchange being closed for the holidays there are no official transactions to report. Many of the brokers, however, were yesterday in attendance at their offices. There were…

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Klondike Gold Fields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 12

Reports from Ottawa state that 2000 miners have left Dawson City, the centre of the Klondike Gold Fields, for Fort Yukon. The danger of starvation among the gold fields'…

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Australasian Mining Patents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 15

The following complete specifications have now been accepted in the various colonies under-mentioned, and letters, patent will, therefore, under ordinary circumstances, issue to the applicants…

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Newcastle News. Export of Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 11

The export of coal from the port of Newcastle for the week ending yesterday was 39,403 tons, a very creditable quantity in view of the fact that two days out of the six were public holidays…

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This Nugget of Gold Ore

Nepean Times · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 3

"That," said my friend, in reply to a question [?] mine, "is a very large and rich nugget or gold ore. It was taken many years ago from a mine in Australia."…

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The West Australian Gold Fields

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 10

KALGOORLIE, Friday.--The Queen Margaret Company's output for the past month was 586 tons, yielding 588oz. 14dwt. of gold. An additional 10-head stamps will he given a trial run on…

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Newcastle. Weekly Coal Export. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 7

The quantity of coal exported to intercolonial and foreign ports daring the week ended this afternoon totalled 39,403 tons, as compared with 3[?],921 tons last week—an increase of 482 tons. The distribution…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 25

Hayes and party (Penrose reef tributors), Solferino, put through 20 tons for 88oz gold. The White Cliffs Opal Field.—Work during the past fortnight has been pushed ahead on…

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The Mining Sharemarket. Review of the Year

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 3

The share market during the year has not been too satisfactory for the brokers or the speculating public. The volume of business has not been as large as it was anticipated it would be, as,…

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Robbery From a Hotel. Theft of Notes and Gold

The Australian Star · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 5

Early this morning Richard Burkitt, licensee of the Nottingham Castle Hotel, Campbell-street, found that he had been robbed of £20 in bank notes and gold, which…

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Klondyke Goldfields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 10

Limelight views of the country to be passed through in reaching the Yukon and Klondyke goldfields were shown at the Opera House yesterday evening. Mr. Davis, who gave a description of the…

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Yesterday's Mining News. Sydney and Intercolonial Mining Advice. Our Letter-box. to Correspondents

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 January 1898 · page 9

[Letters marked Mining" must reach as not later than Thursday. No notice is taken of snoaymous correspondences. The coupon printed in the "Free Information" column must be cut out…

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'No Unemployed.' the Irony of It Searching for Mining Work in the Naked North. (CONCLUSION.)

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1898 · page 3

AFTER leaving Wallsend our next port of call was the 'Great Northern Collier,' situate on the eastern shore of Lake Macquarie and distant from Newcastle some twenty…

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North Kalgulri Gold Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 9

The ordinary general meeting of the North Kalgurl[?] Gold Mines (new issue) was held on November 16 at the City Terminus Hotel, London. Mr. Thomas Rus[?]ll, C.M.G., who presided, is reported to have…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 7

We have received from the publishers, Messrs. George Robertson and Co., a copy, of "The Mines of New South Wales, 1897," compiled and edited by Mr. C. W. Carpenter. The work contains a…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 9

Owing to the Sydney Stock Exchange being closed for the holidays there are no transactions to report…

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