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Mining & the mines, 1898

6,005 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 250

The Miners Delegate Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 5

The quarterly meeting of the Miners' Delegate Board in connection with the Colliery Employees Federation, was held at the Trades Hall to-day. The sitting, which was held in camera, was…

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The Minister for Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 5

Mr. S. Smith, the Minister for Mines, who has been absent from Sydney for about a fortnight, returned yesterday. During his absence from the city he has been thrown out of his buggy,…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 6

The Mining market was qniet yesterday, business being more restricted than on Wednesday. There was a sale of Mount Bischoff tin-mining shares at £33 12s 6d. Girilambone Copper realised an improved…

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The Output of Gold

The Australian Star · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 6

The gold returns furnished by the Mint for 1897 show that from the western district 44,038oz. were received, a decrease of 1512oz as compared with the previous year. The…

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Northern Notes. Miners' Association. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 5

The annual meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees Federation was held yesterday. The ballot for the election of officers resulted in the retiring officers all…

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The Co-operative Miners. The Reported Dispute

The Australian Star · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 5

The reported trouble at the Cooperative Colliery, Plattsburg, is at such a stage that the authorities in the Sydney office do not feel justified in making any statement at present…

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General Cable News. the Oceana Gold Robbery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The Court of Appeal gave its decision to-day in the case of the Queensland National Bank v. the P. and O. Steamship Company. It was an action in which…

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The Oceana Gold Robbery. Action Against the P. AND 0. Company. London, Jan. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 5

The Court of Appeal gave its decision to-day in the case of the Queensland National Bank v. tho P. and 0. Steamship Company. It was an action in which the…

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Japanese Coal Mining

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 24

Mr. Longford, British Consul at Nagasaki, describing in his last report the prospects of the coal industry in his district, refers to the labour difficulties which have arisen at the mines. The…

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Once America's Greatest Gold Mine

The Australian Star · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 7

In many odd places throughout the Southwest are to be found silent and melancholy ruins of smelters and are reducing plants now crumbling into decay. Once they were famous…

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West Australian Gold-fields. New Arrangements at the Associated Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 10

KALGOORLIE, Friday.--The return of the ore smelted at Dry Creek from Associated Mines is to hand to-day. The stone treated was 261 tons, yielding 1200oz. of smelted gold, an average of…

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Miners' Meetings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 9

The Seapit miners, at a meeting held last night, endorsed the minute of the delegate board recommending that a ballot of the whole district be taken jn the question of declaring a strike at the…

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Gold

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 165

Now that some official figures for the gold production in Australia during 1897 are being published it is possible to take them generally and see how the mining…

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Kalgoorlie Mining. Rich Development in Brookmau's Boulder Mine. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 9

In Brookman s Boulder mino sulphide ore richly studdfd with gold and a little telluride, was struck this evening in the dnresbftth north and south of the mam thaft at tho 100ft lovel Iho north…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 12

The share market was very sick yesterday. West Australian stocks showed an all-round decline. The local gold stocks' list shows a preponderance of sellers. Silver stocks were without business, but Broken-hill…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 11

Bonanza South, Delegate, 6 Urns, 18oz. Haters Creel!, Hillsiove. GIO tons, 404OZ. 7dwt. Ho to"s LuiknowHine, Wyalong, 37 tons, 92ox. tOdwt. Great Britain, WvalonR, ta tons. Hoz. 7dwt…

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Yukon Gold [?]

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 13

Reports have reached Victoria. British Columbia, to the effect that the mother lode of the Klondike Gold Field has been discovered. The lode is said to be immensely rich…

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Export of Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 10

The export of coal for the week ended yesterday aggregated to 52,288 tons, and the quantities for the various foreign and intercolonial destinations were:--Chill, 3982 tons; Panama, 2140 tons;…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 11

The business that was transacted in the Mining market yesterday was of very limited extent. There was a better feeling in Giril[?]bone copper shares, and Broken Hill Property scirp was somewhat…

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Victorian Gold Yield

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 24

The official returns of the sold yield of Victoria for 1897 show a material increase on the output of the previous year, the total yield for the year being 812,765oz. an increase of 7678pz over…

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