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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Mining Companies' Shares

Evening News · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 6

LONDON, January 1.-The following are the closing quotations on the Stock Exchange for mining company shares: Broken Hill Proprietary shares, 40s; Mount Lyell…

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Rewards to Miners. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 7

The Broken Hill Proprietary Company has granted a Christmas box of one week's wages to all the under officers and men who since September 12 have worked [?]o heartily and bravely in the region of…

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The Broken Hill Mines. Broken Hill

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

The year has drawn to a close, and although it has not been marked with any extr[?]ordinary developments in the underground workings of the mi[?]es, yet like 1895, it may from [?] circumstances…

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Western Australian Mining. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 8

The figures of the gold export during November are not yet available. The yield for the 11 months, however, was 602,[?]71o[?]., that for last year being 281,2[?]oz. One of the most satisfactory features…

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Mining. the Cockburn Field. (Continued.)

Evening News · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 3

Mr. Charles-Weaver, of Moonbi, who has been digging on the Cockburn Gold Field off and on for the past thirty years, told the writer, although he had got some wonderful good patches at…

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The West Australian Gold Fields. Kalgoorlie Claims

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 5

KALGOORLIE, Sunday.--Tobin's claim, Kanowna Deep Lead, is yielding 70oz. a week. A computation shows that 45U0oz. were produced in December. The Shamrock battery is now…

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London Mining Market. London, Jan. 1

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

Br[?]ken Hill Proprietary shares, 40s, Mount Lyell, £14 10[?]. Mount Lyell South, 18s 9d. North Mount Ly[?]ll, £3 8s [?]…

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The Mining Industry. And the Principles of Mining Law. The Antiquity of the Industry

The Australian Star · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 2

At the Chamber of Mines on Thursday night Mr. A. De Lissa delivered an interesting lecture. The mining industry, said the lecturer, is inseparably associated with the progress of…

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The Yukon Gold Field. American Relief Expedition. Canadian Feeling Hostile

Evening News · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 6

LONDON, January 2, 3.40 p.m.-Public opinion in Canada is hostile to the United States sending a military relief expedition to the Klondike, believing that it is desired to…

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Klondyke Goldfields

The Australian Star · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 3

On Friday night last an illustrated and descriptive lecture on the Klondyke goldfields was given in the Opera House by Mr. Davis, who with his two companions, Messrs. Lean…

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Klondyke Goldfields. Military Relief Expedition. Hostile Feeling in Canada. LONDON, January 2

The Australian Star · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 5

Public opinion in Canada is hostile to the United States sending a military relief expedition to the Klondyke goldfields with provisions, believing that it is desired to…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 7

At Clermont (Q.) the gold yield for the month of December was 22,000oz., being the largest in the history of the field. It would probably have been increased but for the Christmas…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 7

Central Plateau, Ballarat, 629 tons, 320oz…

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Western Gold

The Australian Star · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 5

The A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamship Rockton which arrived in Sydney last night, brought round 10,248oz. gold from West Australian fields. The gold was landed at Melbourne. The…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 7

In consequence of the Sydney Stock Exchange being closed for the holidays there are no official sales to report. Yesterday, however, the vestibule of the Exchange was opened, and one sale was…

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Newcastle. Coal Shipments. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 5

The quantity of coal shipped at the Government cranes and wharfs for home, intercolonial, and foreign consumption during the week ended this morning totalled 39,238 tons, as compared with…

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Queensland Gold Yield. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 4

The complete returns of the gold yield of Queensland for 1897, show that the December yields were 88,205oz., making a total for the year of 791,897oz., as against 640,335oz. for 1896. The Clermont…

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The Gold Yield for 1897

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 4

It is impossible at present to prepare a statement showing the gold yield of the colony for 1897, hut such figures as are at command indicate that it cannot be in excess of that of 1896,…

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Gold Shipment by the Rms Rome

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 4

The P. and O. R.M.S. Rome, which sailed yesterday for London, took away 11 boxes gold (11,693oz.) and one box sovereigns (£290), the latter being shipped by the Royal Mint,…

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Late Mining. New South Wales Fields

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 6

BROKEN-HILL, Monday,--The South mine mill lost four shifts last week, and consequently only treated 1211 tons of crude sulphides and 69 tons of zinc tailings, the whole returning 327 tons of concentrates, worth 67 per…

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