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Mining & the mines, 1899

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New Mining Venture. London, Jan. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 5

The Mount Lyell Comstock Mining Company, Tasmania, has been registered with a capital of £500,000, of which £20,000 is being issued as the working…

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A New Gold Field. Important Find Near Temora

Evening News · Friday 6 January 1899 · page 5

TEMORA, Friday.—A very important find, which is expected to open up an entirely new gold field, is reported from Yarran Jerry, county Bourke, on conditional purchase, land owned by Messrs…

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Mining

Evening News · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 3
Also in Freeman's Journal, The Daily Telegraph

LITHGOW, Saturday.—The continued dry weather has proved a serious deterrent to mining operations in several parts of this district, while in ethers the occasional downpours have almost met…

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The Hillgrove Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 15

The Eleanora battery crushed 520 tons of stone for a yield of 241oz 4dwt smelted gold and 54oz in concentrates; total, 295oz 5dwt. During the 12 months the battery crushed 8139 tons of stone for…

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The Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 10

HELENSBURGH, Friday, -- The coal trade at Helensburgh still continues good, and the miners work full time. No time has been lost here now for the past six months…

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The Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 11

Matters in the coal trade have gone on much the name as usual this week, the export for the period ended yesterday having been 44,000 tons, a fair output considering that a holiday…

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The Hetton Miners' Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 11

The miners employed in the Hetton colliery held a meeting last night. The delegate reported that the Delegate Board at its meeting on Tuesday resolved to send a deputation, consisting of two…

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The Coal-weighing Difficulty

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 11

The conference between a section or the colliery proprietors of Newcastle and the miners' representatives with reference to the weighing difficulty and other matters connected with trade will be…

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Late Mining. Western Australian Mining. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 10

The December output of the Cr[?]sus Proprietary was as follows:—Tons milled, 78, for 77cz. 2dwt. 13gr. gold. The crosscut at the 300ft. level of this mine is now in a distance of 270ft., and at present is…

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West Australian Gold- Fields

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 11

KALGOORLIE, Friday. -- The milling plant was to-day given a trial, but the run was stopped to adjust a number of small details usual to starting big plants. Mr. Koneman…

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Intercolonial Mining News

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 15

A new gold find is reported from Umarella (says a Cooma wire), where a party have taken up a 20acre lease. Good assays have been obtained. It is intended to sink a shaft 200ft. Twenty acres…

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A Mining Dispute

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 15

A correspondent at Barmedman writes as under: The only main line of reef here, the Fiery Cross, had been kept locked up uncorked for the past two years, the owners then…

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Intercolonial Mining News

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 24

The Mitchell's Creek Freehold Company, Wellington, obtained a yield of 359oz 12dwt smelted gold for a fortnight's operations. At the Smelting Company of Australia's works,…

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The Mining Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 8

To-day we publish the first of a series of articles reviewing the mining industry for 1898. The text of the first article is the general report from London that owing to the failure of…

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The London Mining Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 15

Our cable message dated, London, December 31, gave the following quotations: Broken Hill Proprietary shares, 45s; Mount Lyell, £6 10s; Mount Lyell North, £3; Mount Lyell South, 5s 6d; Great…

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The Coal Trade. the Weighting Dispute

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 55

Matters in relation to the question of weighing every sleep or coal at the pit's mouth are still in an unsettled condition so far as some of the collieries in the north are concerned. A conference of certain of…

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MINING. Broken Hill Dec. 28

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 55

To mill last week treated 2661 tons of fielding 436 tons concentrates, bulking 31½oz. 65½ per cent. lead, 7-86 per cent. zinc. The [?] quantity of concentrates lying on the…

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New South Wales Gold Exported to Victoria

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 8

It was recently stated in a newspaper that a considerable quantity of the gold won in New South Wales was sent to the Victorian Mint. The explanation was said to be that better…

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