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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Mount Lyell Proprietary Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 January 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Monday Night.--The Mount Lyell Proprietary mine has been registered with a capital comprising 500,000 shares of £1 each, of which 400,000 shares are to be…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1898 · page 9

The Mining market yesterday was very quiet Coal had more attention, two stocks having business Two copper companies sold at steady rates, but the principal stocks were weaker. Tasmanian silver had…

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The Mining Industry. Review of the Year 1897. the Orange District. the Famous Lucknow Mines. Some Interesting Figures. Vi

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 January 1898 · page 9

The famous Lucknow mines--the wentwortn and Aladdin's Lamp--had not the luck during 1897 to discover any bonanzas such as made phenomenal records for 1894 and 1895. The principal…

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Late Mining. Charters Towers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1898 · page 7

To-day's Stock Exchange sales and quotations were:—Band of Hope, buyer 24s, ditto, paid, buyer 26s: Bonnie Dundee, buyer 3s 6d, seller 3s 9d; Brilliant Central, buyer 5s 2d, seller 5s 5d,…

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New Mining Company. London, Jan. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1898 · page 7

The Mount Lyell (Tasmania) Proprietary Mines Company has boen registered. The capital is fixed at £500,000, of which it is proposed to issue £400,000 to the…

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West Australian Goldfields. Coolgardie Crushings. Prospects of the Ivanhoe. the Boulder Main Reef

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 January 1898 · page 5

COOLGARDIE, Monday.--The following crushings are announced:--Mount Burgess, 202 tons for 103½oz.: New Australasian, 146 tons for 950oz. It is intended to stop crushing for a time, to…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 7

Victory, United, Cue, 96 tons, 177o[?] victory, Charter towers, 105 tons, 417[?]z.[?]nt…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 7

In consequence of yesterday being a public holiday the Sydney Stock Exchange was closed, and therefors there are no transactions to report. ADELAIDE, Wednesday…

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Tasmanian Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 7

QUEENSTOWN, Wednesday.--At the Crown Lyell work of opening up the new discovery is actively proceeding. A trench is being brought up at a level of 15ft. below the surface, the formation showing solid pyrites. The…

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Late Mining. Norseman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 6

The Edwards Nreseman crushing at the [?] Wonder battery yielded 380z. gold from 23 tons and of stone. Probably there will not be any gold escort this month. About 1000 oz. are in…

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Victoria. Annual Mining Returns

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--According to a return prepared by the Mines Department, from the Mining Registrar's reports, the output of gold for last year was 770,720oz., which leaves a…

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Mining. West Sunlight Reef Company

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 7

Our Melbourne correspondent reports that the half-yearly meeting of the West Sunlight Mining Company was held yesterday. The directors' report stated that 2802oz. of gold had been won from the mine during…

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Russia and Port Arthur. Provisioning the Squadron. Heavy Orders for Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--Renter's Agency reports that, the Russian Government are provisioning the squadron at Port Arthur. It is also stated that the Chinese…

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British New Guinea. a Chat with Sir William: Macgregor. Settlers. Not Miners, Wanted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 3

Australian initerest in British New Guinea has "been keen during the last decade. Perhaps it has been keener during the last 12 months than ever. That au[?] sacra fames of which Virgil wrote has…

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Mining. the Industry in New South Wales. a Talk with Mr. Janin. Candid Expressions

Evening News · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 2

Speaking of the progress of mining in the colony our mining reporter interviewed Mr. Louis Janin whom our mining readers will remember in connection with some of the foremost gold mines in the…

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New Guinea Goldfields. Famine at Mambare. Cooktown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 5

Mr. M'Lelland arrived to-day from Mambare in a whalebont. He reports that all hands are at a deadlock for want of stores. The diggers are shooting pigeons and eking out an existence on…

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The Klondyke Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1898 · page 4

Tho Klondyke craze is continuing to stimulate shipbuilding at many different yards on the Atlantic as well as Pacific coasts of America. Light draught stern-wheelers, house-boats,…

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New Mining Company. Mount Lyell Proprietary Mines. LONDON, January 27

The Australian Star · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 4

The shares in the Mount Lyell Proprietary Mines Company (Tasmania), which was recently formed with a capital of £500,000, of which £400,000 worth of shares was issued…

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Chamber of Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 6

This body held its monthly meeting at the Equitable Buildings last evening Mr. Eissel (president) occupied the chair, and there was a moderate attendance of members. The executive committee's report…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 7

West Australian stocks showed still further weakness on Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday, Hourly every line showing a lower quotation. Speculators who bought early in the month in the expectation of a rise in values must be…

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