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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Dudley Colliery Disaster. Baud Performance To-day

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 April 1898 · page 6

MR. P. WITTON, secretary of the Balmain Premier Coldstream Band, has arranged for it to give a performance to-day in the Domain, under the conductorship of Baudmaster S. A…

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Raising a Coal Hulk. Smart Work

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 April 1898 · page 6

MR. PETER ALLISON, stevedore, who undertook to raise the coal bulk Fortuna, which sank in Johnstone's Buy three weeks ago with 570 tons of coal aboard, put up…

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

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 April 1898 · page 9

[Letters marked " Mining" must reach tis not later than Thursday. No notice in taken of anonymous correspondent. The coupon printed in the the "Free Information" column must be cutout…

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Coal Mines Regulations Two Men Fined

Evening News · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—Two miners named Edward Lonsdaie and James Henney, lately employed at the Burwood Colliery, were charged at the Lambton Police Court, yesterday, on an…

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Sensation at the Burwood Colliery. Lives of Miners Endangered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 8

A considerable amount of alarm was create[?] among the miners employed at the Burwood Colliery a few days ago when it become known that the whole of their lives [?]had been endangered by the…

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Coal-miners' Strike in Wales. Fifty Thousand Hen Out

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday, 2 p.m.--The trouble among the coalmines in the south of Wales is assuming serious proportions Fifty thousand men have now struck…

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Mining

Evening News · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 3

BOBADAH, Saturday.—The cyanide plant is again at work, and with a lesser body of ore in the vats. The solution seems at present to percolate freely, and ere long more hands will be employed…

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 9

Buker's Creek, Hilligrove, 536 tons, 244oz., 7dwt. Pike and Party, Hillgrove, 9 tons, 11oz. 8dwt. Sunlight G. M. Ca., Hillgrove (including 8oz. in concentrates), 410 tons, 116oz. 10dwt…

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Southern Coal Trade

Evening News · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Monday.—The southern miners drew their fortnightly pay on Saturday. The pay sheet only showed average time. Corrimal worked 9¼ days, Mount Kembla 6, South B[?] 7¾, Old…

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Mining Notice

The Australian Star · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 6

The following notice was posted on 'Change this morning:-- Block 10 (silver).--Treated for week 2152 tons crude ore, producing 480 tons…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 9

There was a moderate extent of business in the Mining market on Saturday, and at the close an improvement was manifested in the values of several Western Australian gold companies, there being also…

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Russians Purchasing Welsh Coal

Evening News · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 6

LONDON, April 2.—The Russian authorities are purchasing Welsh coal for Talienwan, the rate paid for freight being 30s per ton…

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Extensive Miners' Strike. London, April 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 7

Fifty thousand miners in South Wales have struck work for an increase in wages…

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Cooma Copper-mining Syndicate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 9

A meeting of the Cooma Copper-mining Syndicate was held at the offices of Mesrs. Molesworth and Skidmore, 5 Moore-street, on Friday, Mr. W. B. Neales presiding. The mine manager reported that…

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Late Mining. Coolgaardie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 7

The following crushing returns are published:— Hillend, B[?]oad Arrow, 617 tons, 935½oz. of gold; Norseman Gold Mines, 84 tons, 703oz.; Bayley's United Cyanide. 690 tons, 738oz. 8dwt. Total…

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Russian Coal Supplies. Obtained From Wales

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.--The Russian Government are purchasing coal in Wales, the freight for which is £10s per ton to Talien-wan Bay…

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The Country. Two Miners Killed at Girilambone

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 6

GIRILAMBONE, Saturday.--A dreadful fatal accident occurred in the copper mine here last night through a fall of earth, by which Edward Trestrail, on elderly man, of many years' mining…

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Dudley Colliery Disaster. the Fires Extinguished. Future Operations. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 8

The prevailing opinion among the colliery managers of the district is that the fires in the Dudley mine, which after the explosion developed to such a serious extent as to necessitate the sealing down of…

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Western Australian Gold Returns. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 9

The gold returns for March were 75,380oz. of the value of £286,444. This is 21,640oz. more than February, and 35,000oz. more than March of last year 8396oz. arrived at Geraldton yesterday too late to be…

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Mining at Kalgoorlie. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 7

The Boulder main reef crushing of 830 tons resulted in 1100oz. No cyanide is included. The crushing represents the work for March. The b[?]ttery since November has crushed 3000 tons for…

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