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Mining & the mines, 1899

5,864 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 250

Northern Notes. Meeting of Wallsend Miners. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 2

A meeting of the Wallsend miners was held in the Wallsend School of Arts last night, Mr. John Bower in the chain A minute from the Delegate Board…

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MINING. Broken Hill. Feb. 8

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

Block 10 mill treated last week 2991 tone crudes, producing 518 tons concentrates, bulking 33-43oz. silver, 64.75 per cent, lead, 8.23 per cent. zinc. The week's despatches were :—129 tons slimes and 960…

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Diamond Mining at Boggy Camp

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

The new diamond washing plant was given a trial run at Boggy Camp last week with satisfactory results. The trial showed that, although the pulsntor did good woik, some triling…

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The Jennings. Gold Sluicing and Dredging Company

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 13

The prospectus of the Jennings Gold Sluicing and Dredging Company of New South Wales appears in our advertising columns. The capital is to be £17,500 in 70,000 shares of 5s each, of which 1000 shares will be…

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Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, Limited, by wire from the general manager, report that the average assays of bulk borings from No. 5 tunnel S.D., for the week ending the 15th…

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Mining in China. Mr. Pritchard Morgan's Concession. London, Feb. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 9

The concession obtained by Mr. W. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., to work certain mines in the province of Szechuan, on condition of paying a royalty on all gold…

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New Zealand Mining. The Talisman Company. LONDON, February 17. 3.24 p.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 3

The New Zealand Talisman Gold-mining Co. has increased its capital by 950.000 to Require the Talisman Extended [?]…

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A Mining Guarantee. Re W. A. Winkler (Golden Gully G.m. and Others Respondents)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 12

In Chambers, before Mr. Justice O'Conner, Mr. A. Themson (instructed by Messrs. Lee, Colquhoun, and Bassett) moved, on behalf of William Alfred Winkler, of Lucknow, assayer, to make absolute a rule nisi for a…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued from page 23.) Minerals of N.S.W. Statistics for 1898

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

The Mines Department, Sydney, has Issued a return showing the quantity and value of the minerals raised In New South Wales during 1898. Silver, silver lead, and ores head the list with…

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The Track to the New Guinea Gold Fields. (Written for the "Town and Country Journal.") (See illustration on page 19.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 19

During the mild rush in 1897 to the gold field on the Mambare River in the north of Britsh New Guinea, I met many men—a large majority, in fact—who had not the faintest idea of the sort of…

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The Mining Industry. Review of the Year 1898. the Bathurst District. Dredging on the Turon. Proposed Prospecting at Hill End. Xi

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 5

Bathurst itself is absolutely devoid of a suggestion of mining. There is not in the "city of the plains" a manufactory or enterprise of any description which one could associate with…

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A Fortune for a £5 Note. Magnificent Building Blocks of Land, 75 LINKS by 231 Links, in Colchester Estate, Perth, W.A., the Land of Gold

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 17

In 1886, 302 ounces of Gold won. Yield for 1[?]98, over 1,000,000 ounces. Timber export and grazing steadily progressing. Price £5 per block, on the terms of 10s per lot deposit, and the balance 5s per…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 11

KALGOORLIE, Friday. -- The crosscut at the 250ft. North Boulder has not reached the lode, but the winze is now being put down from the 200ft. to meet the lower crosscut. A feeling of much…

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The [?]Ill End Goldfields. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1899 · page 13

Sir, -- An agitation of sufficient importance for notice in your influential columns is now exercising the minds of the inhabitants of this hitherto much-neglected, although highly important, gold centre. The powers that be,…

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

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 February 1899 · page 9

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

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Miners Attacked by Indians Manager Kills His Wife and Suicides to Escape Torture

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 February 1899 · page 8

A band of Indians, numbering 1000, has ravaged a mining settlement in Corocoro Bolivia. The savages pillaged the houses of the…

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Condobolin Mines

Evening News · Monday 20 February 1899 · page 8

CONDOBOLIN, Monday.—In a Tadius of 30 or forty miles of Condobolin there are various mines of gold, copper, silver, and tin, etc. In fact, the mines are scattered all over the immense…

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New Zealand Talisman Gold-mining Company. London, Feb. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1899 · page 5

The New Zealand Talisman Gold-mining Company, Limited, which was formed to acquire the Talisman and Bonanza properties, in the Waitekauri district (N.Z.),…

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Mining

Evening News · Monday 20 February 1899 · page 3

PAMBULA, Saturday.—The Pambula Gold Mines Company is said to have struck rich stone whilst driving their lowest level. The shaft has recently been sunk to test the depth of the…

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The Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 February 1899 · page 6

BULLI Saturday. -- At two of the collieries in tho district the water from the pit is now being used, the sources from which the usual supply was got having failed. This water is rather…

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