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Mining & the mines, 1899

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The Coal Trade

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 296

The thirty-first half-yearly general meeting of shareholders of the Stockton Coal Company, Limited, was held in the Chamber of Commerce last week, Mr. Thomas Cowlishaw being in the chair. The…

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Sydney Harbor Collieries. Meeting of Shareholders in London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 5

LONDON, December 30. -- The fifth ordinary general meeting of the Sydney Harbor Collieries. Limited, occurred at Winchester House on December 29, under the presidency of Mr. E. T…

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The Baker's Creek Mine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 30

This has been, up to the present, the mine of the field. It has a leasehold area of 88 acres, with Mr…

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The West Australian Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 13

The tributers of the Great Eastern Mine, Bulong, are reportod to have struck rich gold. The Alliance Mine, Nannine, has treated 100 tons of stone for l97oz gold…

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Telluride of Gold

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 13

In November last the Government Geologist of New South Wales reported the discovery by Mr. Blakemore, the general manager of the Prince of Wales Mine at Gundagai of the peculiar variety…

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Gold in Tibet

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 23

A British consular report of recent date, says gold, known in Tachienlu as "huang huo," or yellow goods, has long been an article of export, and all the large hongs deal in it. The gold comes…

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Gold in Australasia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 4

That the importances of the Seven Colonies AS a gold-producing country is being more and more recognised by European authorities is fully proved by the publication by Macmillan and Co,, Limited,…

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Mine Shaft Cased With Steel

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 24

A departure in raining engineering is the decision of the Portland Mining Company, of Cripple Creek, U.S.A., to fit out its main shaft with steel, the supports and sets to be of that material, with…

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The Yukon Gold Fields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 23

R. L. Dunn, a Californian mining engineer, who has been investigating the Yukon country, has returned to San Francisco. He says: "The country as a whole, in my opinion, is…

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South African Gold Yield

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 23

The production of gold in the Witwatersrandt district in October was 400,791oz, as compared with 274,175oz in October, 1897, 199,889oz in October, 1896, 192,182oz in October, 1895, 173,378oz in…

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Intercolonial Mining News

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 24

The Mitchell's Creek Freehold, Wellington, during the fortnight ended January 20, yielded 35307. 12dwt gold. The Eldorado claim, at Mount Drysdale, cleaned…

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Australasian Mining Patents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 24

The following complete specifications have lately been accepted, in the various colonies undermentioned, and letters patent will, therefore, issue to the applicants in due course. This report is…

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Terrible Mining Accident

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 24

THE Wolumla correspondent of the Bega STANDARD supplies particulars of a terrible mining accident by which Mr. J. H. Sharpe lost his life, and a man named Momsen had a very narrow escape. From…

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Charters. From 1St February. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 3

Benares, 4-m bq. Newcastle to San Francisco Ednyfed, bq, Newcastle to West Coast Havila, bq, Newcastle to West Coast Sorata, bq, Newcastle to Mollendo, option…

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The South Coast District.. Progress and Prospects of Wollongong. an Extensive Milk Trade. Important Coal-mining Centre. the Mount Kembla and Mount Pleasant Mines. (By Our Special Reporters.) No. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 11

In a journey southwards, Under the shadow of the frowning face of the Illawarra ranges, the first district met with which does not wholly and solely depend upon its coal…

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Gold imported into Great Britain

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 23

The value of gold imported into the United Kingdom in September was £2,463,889, as compared with £2,155,818 in September, 1897, and £1,472,901 in September, 1896. The aggregate…

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Theft of a Gold Watch

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 11

John Tighe (29), a French polisher, was charged at the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Edwards, S.M., with stealing a gold watch, valued at £25, the property of Alexander M'Gahey, on the 27th January last…

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Mining "Industry of Zululand

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 24

Mr. J. Jervis Garrard, Acting Commissioner of Mu[?]es, in concluding his general report to the Colonial…

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Mining Opinions and Assays

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 297

White Oak.—The sample forwarded assays as follows:—Gold, nil; silver, traces…

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Late Mining. Broad Arrow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 10

The Pakeha Creek deep alluvial lead had been pegged from Broad Arrow to the Eulalie lead. At laest a dozen claims are on payable gold. Nivar and party are washing lOdwts. to the dish…

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