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Mining & the mines, 1898

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The Year's Gold. a Reduced Quantity

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 4

Following is a return showing the quantity and value of the gold produced in New South Wales during the year ended December 31, 1897:--Quarter ending March 31, 63,633oz.,…

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The Miners' Conference. the System of Contracting Out

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 9

LONDON, Friday.--The Miners' Conference which is being held in Bristol has passed resolutions demanding that the clause giving power for contracting out shall be…

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Annual Gold Yield. an Increase in Value

Evening News · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 5

A return showing the Quantity and value of the gold produced in New South Wades during the year ended Dec. 31 was last Issued yesterday as follows: Quarter ended March 31, 63,633oz, value…

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Temora Gold Field. Huge Quartz Formations. Ii

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 24

In my last article under this heading I incidently mentioned the existence of huge quartz reefs and ironstone blows which for size might be, termed dykes, in the Temora country. These…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 14

The Broken Hill South mill last week treated 1211 tons ctudes and 69 tons zinc tailings for 327 tons concentrates, bulking 67 per cent. lead, 13oz silver, and 8½ per cent. zinc. The week's dispatches totalled…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 24

See and Harp's Christmas crushing at Solferino yielded 14½d[?]wt to the ton. The Solferino mining returns for the year 1897 show that 275 tons of quartz were crushed for a yield of 475oz 12dwt of…

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Gold Fields of West Australia. Progress Made During 1897

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 14

A Perth correspondent writes: Ono of the most satisfactory features of the year's operations is the progress of a general character that has been made, and that, with the exception of the fax northern…

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Broken Hill Mines. the Work of the Past Year. Broken Hill, January 2

Evening News · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 3

The review I have to make on the work of the past year on the Broken Hill mines, if not as favorable as that of 1896, is on the whole of a satisfactory character, and the prospects for 1896 are…

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The Wolumla Gold Field. Notes on Its Geology and Auriferous Deposits

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 24

Mr. Joseph Carne, F.G.S., geological surveyor to the Government of New South Wales, has written, an exhaustive and interesting report on the geology and auriferous, deposits of the…

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The Mining Industry. Review Oe the Year 1897. a Disappointing Term

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 3

The year 1897 opened with apparently excellent prospects for the metal-mining industry. But it is putting it mildly to say that the expectations then formed have been far from…

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Gold Yield of the Colony. Figures for the Year. Decrease in Output--increase in Value

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 10

The officials of the Mines Department have collected the statistics and prepared a return showing the quantity and value of the gold produced in New South Wales during the four…

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"The Mines of New South Wales, 1897." Compiled and edited by C. W. CARPENTER. George Robertson and Co. 1897

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 4

The publie of New South Wales have a quite inadequate idea of the mining resources of their own colony, and we still look abroad for investments while the deposits at our own doors lie…

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Gold, Ores and Metals. Exported From New South Wales to Oversea Ports for Six Months Ended December 31St, 1897. SHIPPERS

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 3

Union Bank, 125 bxs soys, £625,000 Bank of Australasia, 141 bxs soys, £701,000 London Bank of Australasia, Ltd, 70 bxs soys,£350,000…

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Our Illustrated London Letter. Soldiers of the Empire. The New Goldfields. LONDON, November 26

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 7

It is interesting to note that in this year of jubilee, her Majesty's troops of so many different races should be fighting side by side on the north-west frontier of India. We all know…

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

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 January 1898 · page 9

[Letters marked "M[?]aing" must reach as not later than Thursday. No notice is taken of anonymous correspondence. The coupon printed in the "Free information" column mut be cut out…

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A Brutal, Base, and Cruel Deed. Shocking Treatment of Natives in Western Australia. a Squatter Found Guilty of Manslaughter. Sentenced to Penal Servitude for Life. Heart-rending Story of Cruelty to the Blaoes. Near Marble Bar, Pilbarra Gold-fields

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1898 · page 3

At the Criminal Court, Perth, W.A., on December 19 and 20, before Chief Justice Onslow, a squatter named Ernest Anderson, was charged with having nagged to death an…

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A Glut of Gold. Eight Million Sovereigns Held by Two Sydney Banks Alone

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 January 1898 · page 7

A WELL-KNOWN financial authority, speaking to a SUNDAY TIMES representatives in regard to the floating of the loan, said:— "It will be found that it is one mostly for…

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Mining

Evening News · Monday 10 January 1898 · page 3
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HILLGROVE, Saturday.-At the warden's court On Thursday Ms. F. Jolly, on behalf of the Eleanor Gold Mining Company, applied for three months suspension from labor conditions, to enable the…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1898 · page 7

Bonnie Dundee, Charters Towers, 192 tons, 218oz. Brilliant Extended, Charters Towers, 203 tons, 150oz. Bellevue Proprietary, Mount Sir Samuel (December), 405 tons, 769oz…

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