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Mining & the mines, 1898

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Mining in Northern Territory

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 12

ADELAIDE, Friday. -- The Government Resident of the Northern Territory has informed the Colonial Treasurer that the chief warden of the goldfields there returned to Palmerston on Thursday, and reported at the Eureka…

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The Coal Trade. WOLLONGONG, April 8

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 834

Official statistics concerning the Southern coal trade show that last year's operations fell short, both in point of quantity and value, of those of the preceding year. In 1896 the total output was…

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All the Gold in the World

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 41

A correspondent says: If I had all the gold coins in the world, I should be lord of £755,000,000 Sterling,, and should be twenty times as rich as the wealthiest of living millionaires. My pile…

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N S.W. Quarterly Gold Return

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 24

The Mines Department has prepared a return showing the quantity and value of gold produced in New South Wales during the first quarter of the present year, as compared with the same…

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Northern Notes. Export of Coal. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 10

The export of coal to foreign and intercolonial ports for the week ended at noon to-day was 29,046 tons, as, follows:--Victoria; 15,280 tons; United States, 5996 tons; West…

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Newcastle. the Coal Export Trade. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 10

The quantity of coal exported to foreign and intercolonial ports during the week ended to-day totalled 37,135 tons, as compared with 3S,443 tons last week —a decrease of 130[?] tons. The distribution was as…

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Mining at Coolgardie. Coolgardie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 9

The Westralia and East Extension, after a run of four weeks with 40 stamps, cleared up on April 9, with a result of 2326 tons for 909oz. 3dwt. 12gr. Inoluded in this…

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The Miner. Ventilation of Mines. a Bendigo Example

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 24

The efficacy of artificial methods of ventilation is being splendidly exemplified (says the Melbourne "Argus") in the workings of the Sea Company. When the Sea Company reached the…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 24

The Broken Hill South mill last week treated 1527, tons sulphides and 128 tons zinc tailings and slimes, returning 472 tons concentrates, worth 66½ percent. lead, 13, 4oz silver, 9.2 per cent, zinc. The…

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MINING. The Klondyke. VICTORIA, B.C.. March 11

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 834

The exodus from the Klondyke has slackened perceptibly the past few weeks, and few argonauts are now returning. The arrivals may be expected to become few and far between from now…

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The Town of Mitta Mitta (Vic.) Hydraulic Sluicing at the Pioneer Mine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 26

The township of Mitta "Mitta is situated on the junction of the Snowy Creek and Mitta Mitta, half-way between Tallangatta (the present terminus of the Upper Murray railway) and Glen…

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The Gold-Fish. of Daily Interest to Australians. All About Them

The Catholic Press · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 4

It is curious to see the children in the Sydney Botanic Gardens and the Aquarium watching the gold-fish, and making inquiries about, the little pets,…

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Hews by Cable. [Copyright.] America and Spain. the Destruction of the Maine. General Lee's Evidence. Loud Outcry Foe Vengeance the Laying of the Mines. an Arrest in Chicago

Evening News · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 6

LONDON, April 15, 3.10 p.m.—The evidence of General Lee, the United States Consul in Havana, with regard to the destruction of the Maine, has aroused an intense outcry in the…

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He Went to the Rush. a Good Goldfields Yarn

The Australian Star · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 5

Many a good yarn is told by minors of the old digging days in Victoria when money was thrown about like water, and when scarcely a fortnight passed without some phenomenal…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 10

KALGOORLIE, Friday. -- The sli[?]es treatment at the Lake View Consols has been so satisfactory, and the residues contain such infinite small traces of gold that the pulp is being utilised for brick…

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

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 April 1898 · page 9

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

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Miners' Relief Fund

Evening News · Monday 18 April 1898 · page 6

Mr. Sydney Smith, Minister for Mines, has informed the Mayor of Stockton that he will visit Newcastle on Thursday next to deliberate with the miners and…

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Wallsend Miners' Lodge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 April 1898 · page 5

At the quarterly meeting of the Wallcend Miners' Lodge held recently the balance-sheet was submitted, showing that the income on behalf of the accident and local officers' general union and district accident…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 April 1898 · page 7

The sharemarket on Saturday was lifeless. Quotations for West Australian, stocks showed further weakness. "The Mount Lyell Company's last monthly report states:--"From the 10th March to the 6th April, inclusive, a…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 April 1898 · page 7

Baker's Creek Company, Hillgrove, 561 tons, 530oz. 10dwt, (also trial crushing of 22 tons 7oz. 15dwt.). Eleanora Tributors, Hillgrove, 30½ tons, 32oz. 9dwt. Mount Lyell M. and R. Company, 1689oz…

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