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Mining & the mines, 1899

5,864 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 250

The Colliery Employees' Federation

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 11

Statistics of the Colliery Employees' Federation for the year ended December 31, 1898, show that on that date there were 3712 members of the organisation, distributed among the lodges as…

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Wallsend Miners' Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 11

The quarterly meeting of the Wallsend miners was held last night at the School of Arts, Mr. John Bowor presiding. The first question discussed was that of the Wallarah miners…

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Mining

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 20
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Hemsley and party, who are working on Stinson's ground, about one mile north of the Great Blayney Mine, have met a splendid body of grey ore while driving at the 190 feet level. It is estimated to yield…

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The Hillgrove Gold Field. the Eleanora Mine. Iii. (See illustrations on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 23

The Eleanora Gold and Antimony Mining Company, Hillgrove, has now been in operation for a number of years. The property is situated on the tableland on the eastern side of the gorge, and…

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The Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 10

BULLI, Friday. -- Shipments of coal at the port of Bellambl were well up to the average last week. Four thousand six hundred and seventy tons of coal were shipped, 900 tons to Melbourne,…

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The West Australian Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 14

Coolgardie Crushings.—Burbanks Birthday Gift January return was 1104oz of gold—690 tons (battery) for 90[?]oz, and 920 tons (oyanide) for 199oz. The January [?] of Bayley's Reward was: Treated by…

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The Burragorang Silver Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 14

Mr. Warden Gibson, who waa sent by the Department of Mines to inspect the Burragorang Silver Mines, has furnished a report thereon. In it he states that one of the persons working under authority to…

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Reported Gold Find

Evening News · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 3

COOLAMON, Saturday.—There is a persistent rumor here that a man named Clark has struck a rich, reef on the Mountain View property in an old shaft which was sunk years ago, and…

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The Coal Weighing Clause

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 14

A special meeting of the miners' delegates, held at Newcastle last week, decided that the proprietors' proposals could not be accepted. The announcement was received throughout the district…

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Novel Method for Draining Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 23

A novel drainage scheme has been devised and made the subject of a patent by a gentleman residing near Mold. The object of the inventor is to provide a means whereby a perpetual and…

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New Zealand Mining

Evening News · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 6

LONDON. February 7, 3.25 p.m.—The New Zealand Talisman Gold Mining Company has increased its capital by £50,000, with the view to acquire the Talisman Extended Mine…

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Intercolonial Mining News

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 14

News from Gulgong states that Jarvis and party have bottomed on payable gold at the Diamond Mines rush. The following are the results of washings: Greenhalgh, 11dwt gold to the load;…

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Australasian Mining Patents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 23

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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Charters. From 1St February. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 3

Adolph Harboe, bq, Bremen to Port Pirie— Coke Barcore, sh. Newcastle to Valparaiso Benares, 4.m bq. Newcastle to San Francisco…

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The Palmer (Q.) Gold Field

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 23

The warden's report on the Palmer (Q.) Gold Field for the year 1898 shows that the total yield was 3183oz 10dWt 12gr. The quantity of quartz crushed was 1078 tons, for a return of 1237oz 7dwt…

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Mining Opinions and Assays

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 417

B.—The day of which a sample is forwarded would make a fireclay, but it is of no commercial value outside the district in which it occurs. As a fireclay it would be worth a few shillings per ton…

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Late Mining. BRISBANE

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 405

To-day's Queensland Stock Exchange sales were :—Great Eastern and Orient Tribute, 6d; North Oriental and Glanmire, 46 ; No. 1 North Oriental and Glammre, 6s 1d ; No. 6 North Phoenix, 1s 7½d ;…

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The Coal Trade. NEWCASTLE. Feb. 9

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 416

The barque Himalaya sailed to-day for Honolulu with 1445 tons of coal from the Duckenfield Colliery. The four-masted barque Pyrenees left for Ban Francisco with 3543 tons of Wallsend coal; the…

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Traveller. the Gold Rush to California

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 9

The fiftieth anniversary of the finding of gold in California, makes pertinent on account of the accidental discovery which so affected the development of the Anglo-Saxon…

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