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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Mining at Queanbeyan

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 24

Mr. Slee has also submitted a report on mining in the Queanbeyan district, in the course of which he states that more attention is being paid to prospecting the various gold, silver, lead,…

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CHARTERS From 1st March COAL

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 3

Barcore, sh, Newcastle to the West Coast Baroda, bq, Newcastle to the West Coast Bass Rock, bq, Newcastle to the West Coast Ben Cruachan, sh, Newcastle to Valparaiso,…

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The Colliery Disaster. Fires Raging in the Mine. Another Explosion Feared. the Pit Being Sealed Down. Workings to Be Flooded. Five Bodies Still Entombed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--As stated in to-day's issue of "The Daily Telegraph," searching operations at the Dudley colliery for the five victims of Monday's explosion, whose bodies have not…

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Mining Opinions and Assays

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 674

H.J. (Maragle).—The weight of the parcel was l0dwt. 19 gr., and the weight of bullion contained therein was 7dwt. The gold was left black by the presence of arsenical pyrites, and it also contained mercury. It was…

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The Coal Trade. NEWCASTLE, March 18

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 672

The quantity of coal exported to foreign and intercolonial ports during the week ended this afternoon, totalled 40,947 tons as compared with 36,183 tons for last week, an increase of 4764 tons…

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Gold Production of the Past Tear

The Australian Star · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 8

The Director of the United States Mint, from information at hand, on December 31, Bald there is a substantial evidence that the world's product of gold in 1897 will…

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MINING. Broken Hill. March 16

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 672

The North Broken mill last week treated 600 tons crudes, yielding 135 tons concentrates of good average value. The despatches were 105 tons concentrates to Illawarra, leaving approximately 565 tons…

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Riot Amongst Gold Miners. Disgraceful Scene at Kalgoorlie. the Premier Assailed. Stones Hurled at Him. Railway Train Held Up. "Run Over the Cowardly Curs."

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 10

PERTH, Friday. -- A deputation of alluvial miners waited on tho Premier, Sir John Forrest, on his arrival at Kalgoorlie. There was an immense gathering of diggers, in a very excited…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 14

The Broken Hill South mill last week treated 1610 tons crule sulphides ore and 99 tons zinc tailings and slimes, the whole returning 487 tons concentrates, bulking 66 per cent, lead, 12.6oz silver, 9.4 per cent,…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 24

Wattle Flat Notes.—The sinking of the old shaft at the Great Victoria (Old Solitary) was reported last week as nearly finished, and the cutting of a chamber at 500ft, from which levels are to be…

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Riot at Kalgoorlie. Serious Disturbance by Miners. the Riot Act Read

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 9

In our second edition of yesterday we published a lengthy and graphic telegram from Kalgoorlie detailing the circumstances of the serious disturbance which took place in that…

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The Dudley Colliery Disaster. a Serious Development. the Mine on Fire. Volumes of Smoke and Gas. All Operations Abandoned. the Pit to Be Sealed and Flooded. Five Bodies Undiscovered. Conference of Experts. Distribution of Relief

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 9

The excitement which has prevailed throughout the district and colony since the disastrous explosion at the Dudl[?]y Colliery on Monday last has been intensified by the sensational developments reported…

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The Storyteller The Red Axe Chapter Xxv. Mine Host Runs His Last Race

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 653

Hearty were the greetings when the soldiers found us all safe and sound. They shook us again by the hand. They clapped us on the back. They examined professionally the dead who lay strewn…

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Seventy Persons Killed in a Coal Mine

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 March 1898 · page 8

A DISASTROUS explosion occurred in the isabella Mine, near Codova, Spain. Seventy lives were lost…

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Gold for Gehenna

Truth · Sunday 27 March 1898 · page 2

EVERY week two, and sometimes three, of the enormous fleet of ocean greyhounds slip cable from Sydney's wharves, and make north, east, and west. The raw…

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Klondike Miners Lost at Sea

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 March 1898 · page 8

THE barque Helen W. Almi, which recently Bailed from San Francisco with a number of miners destined for the Klondyke goldfields, has been found derelict and bottom upwards…

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A Colliery Calamity. Explosion in Dudley Pit. Fourteen Men Entombed

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 March 1898 · page 8

One of the most disastrous accidents in the history of coal mining in New South Wales occurred on Monday morning at the Dudley pit which is 8 miles south of Newcastle, and…

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The Dudley Pit Disaster. the Fire Fiercely Blazing Flooding the Mine. Newcastle, Saturday Night

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 March 1898 · page 7

MESSRS. W. TURNBULL, Jonathan Dixon and T. Croudace proceeded to the Dudley mine this morning for the purpose of taking charge of the sealing-down…

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The Final War. a Story of the Great Betrayal Chapter XVIII.—Cheap Steam Coal (Continued)

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 March 1898 · page 5

On the morning of May 25 the early risers among the people of Cardiff were eating their breakfast and discussing the possible movements of the Russian fleet, when a thrill of…

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The Westralian Mining Difficulty. the Premier Hustled and Menaced. The Riot Act Read

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 March 1898 · page 8

THE trouble which has been brewing for weeks with the Westralian miners culminated iu a serious disturbance at Kalgoorlie on Thursday. The cause of it is a mining regulation issued…

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