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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 February 1898 · page 7

The Mining market yesterday was a trifle less active than on the previous day, the feature being the numbers of sales, effected in Queensland gold stocks, which had by far the greater share of…

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British Coal and Prosperity

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 February 1898 · page 7

Many of us can still recall the feeling of apprehension which arose and spread throughout England when Professor Jevons published a generation ago his work on "The Coal Question."…

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Another Gold Bush. Yass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 February 1898 · page 7

Another gold rush has taken place to Murrumbateman, 12 miles out. All the ground has been pegged out, and good prospects have been obtained. ADELAIDE, Wednesday…

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Western Australia. the Alluvial Miners. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 February 1898 · page 5

This morning there were about 100 men on the Venture lease, but after luncheon only a few men remained on the lease. M'Kenzie and party and Frost and party…

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Westport Coal Company's Meeting. Orders From the Admiral

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 February 1898 · page 5

WELLINGTON, Wednesday.--At the annual meeting of the Westport Coal Company, the chairman said the year's profit amounted to £14,282. The output had been 243,000 tons, an…

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Brummagem Gold. Other Arrests. How a Fraud Was Perpetrated

Evening News · Thursday 10 February 1898 · page 7

inquiries made into the recent celling of brummagem gold shows that it has been carried on certainly for the past six months, and has assumed extensive proportions. Banks, assayers…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 7

The mining market was very weak on the Sydney Stork Exchange yesterday. Queensland stock lacked the activity of the previous day, and the sales which were made were at declining rate. Only one sale was refolded in…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 7

Alma Claim, Moaabla, Condobolin, 39 tons, 117oz. Associated Gold Mines. Kalgoorlie (January), 3906oz. Cobar Great Western (banked;, 262pz. 12dwt. 12gr. Central Plateau, Ballarat. 820 tuns, 421oz…

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West Australian Gold-fields. Developments at Kalgoorlie

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 5

KALGOORLIE, Thursday.--The Lake View output for January was declared to-day as follows:--Stone treated, 5026 tons, 7554oz. of smelted gold, an average of 1½oz. The second crushing…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 7

A moderate oxtent of business transpired yesterday in the Mining market Wallsend fetched £20, and closed with improved cjuosations, but there wore no changes in regard to others. In silver B.H…

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The First Gold Discovery. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 3

Sir.--I notice by your issue of 27th December last certain information relative to the "First Gold Discovery," under the heading, "Death of Mr. John Calvert." Now, Sir, as some of this…

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Mining. in the Newbridge District. No. 3

Evening News · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 7

The Newbridge G.M. Company.-Great have been the disappointments of shareholders. A little over a year ago the property, a 20-acre gold lease, situatted about two miles south of Newbridge, was…

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Mining Matters. Tasmanian Shows. On the West Coast

The Australian Star · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 3

In some notes a fortnight ago I referred briefly to "the copper belt" of the West Coast as it is now designated. The country was briefly noted from Mount Darwin, on the…

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Western Australia. the Alluvial Mining Question. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 5

A largely attended meeting was held in the Perth Town Hall to-night to consider questions relating to the recent amendment of the alluvial mining regulations. About 1000 persona were…

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Public Opinion. the Mining Laws of New South Wales. (To the Editor)

The Australian Star · Friday 11 February 1898 · page 3

Sir,--From time to time many able writers have shown that the above are in need of serious alteration. Our Chamber of Mines is still hammering away at this very subject,…

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Canadian Gold Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 20

At the Imperial Institute, London, recently, Mr. A. J. M'Millan, of Rosaland, B.C., delivered a lecture on "The Mineral Resources of British Columbia and the Yukon." Mr. Forbes G. Vernon…

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The Threatened Colliery Strike

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 9

The whole of the mining lodges of the Northern district have adopted the recommendation of th[?] Miners' Delegate Board, to the effect that unless th[?] 40 men discharged from the Co-operative Colliery[?]…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 12

Only a moderate amount of business transpired in mining shares on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Transactions were confined almost entirely to Gympie stocks, amongst which No. 6 North Phoenix were…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 11

Pride of the Goulburn Gold-mining Company, 10 tons, 21oz…

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Shipment of Coal

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 332

The quantity of coal shipped at the Newcastle cranes and wharfs during the week ended Monday, the 7th instant, for home, intercolonial, and foreign consumption totalled 52,443 tons, as…

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