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Mining & the mines, 1899

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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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Mining Bursaries in N.S.W.

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

It was intimated some time since by the Mines Department that bursaries under the School of Mines in connection with the University would be given to four students, thus enabling them to…

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New Mining Venture. London, Jan. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 9

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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Selling Price of Coal. the Weighing Difficulty. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 9

An important meeting of representatives of proprietors of the northern collieries was held at the Great Northern Hotel this afternoon for the purpose of deciding upon the course of action to be assumed…

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The Coal Difficulty. Meeting of Advanced Hewing Bate Confirmed

Evening News · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 5

Saturday.—The meeting of coal owners held at the Great Northern Hotel last evening to consider matters to be submitted at to-day's conference was presided over by Mr. Thomas…

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Northern Coal Trade. Today's Conference. Meeting of Proprietors. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 7

At the Great Northern Hotel yesterday afternoon a meeting of colliery proprietors' representatives and mine managers was held to make arrangements for today's conference…

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Mining in New South Wales. the Mount Boppy and Restdown Fields. (By Our Special Mining Reporter.) No. 2

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

A few miles to the north of the Burra Burra copper mine a good deal of prospecting work for gold is going on. To make the situation more defined I may say that the exact spot ia about six miles south…

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New Engine Power. [?]P and Simple Engines for [?]Ations, Farms, Mines, Vessels, [?]Nd Homesteads

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 21

[?] main want of Australia at the present time is [?]e, cheap engine power. The day is done of the fashioned style of farming, mining, and sailing are everything was done by hand labour or by…

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Original Novel. [All Rights Reserved.] Marian Gonisby. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. How Gonisby Made His Gold

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 3

FORTUNE HUNTING is one of the keen businesses in Australian life. Perhaps the term fortune-hunting may with more force be applied to a generation that ie passing…

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A New Goldfield Important Find Near Temora

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 10

TEMORA, Friday. -- A very important find has been made, which opens up an entirely new goldfield at Yarran Jerry, county Bourke, on a conditional purchase owned by Messrs. Hewitt and…

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The Mining Industry. Review of the Year 1898. Some Big Disappointments. Failure of English Companies. the Evil of Over-capitalisation. the English Black List I

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1899 · page 6

The year which has just closed will be a memorable one in the history of the mining industry of New South Wales. There have been more than ordinary disappointments. Wherever…

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Australian Notable Events. the Discovery of Gold. Some very Early Finds Kept Secret by Government The Big Rush of 1851 Its Consequences to Australia

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1899 · page 5

No event which has yet happened in the bistroy of Australia has had such an important and lasting effect upon its progress and development as the discovery of…

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The Coal Mining Conference

Evening News · Monday 9 January 1899 · page 4

The good people who expected that Saturday's conference in Newcastle would for the moment settle the questions between coal mine owners and coal miners will be disappointed, but those…

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Newcastle. Work at the Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1899 · page 6

Work at the colleries of the district has been considerably upset during the past fortnight, on account of the holidays, and the pay to be drawn on Friday next will, consequently, be…

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The Coal Difficulty. the Owners' Proposals. Their Deception by the Miners

Evening News · Monday 9 January 1899 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—The proposals made at the conference of coal-owners and miners' delegates on Saturday are being viewed by the miners of the district with a mixture of approval and…

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Mining

Evening News · Monday 9 January 1899 · page 7
Also in The Daily Telegraph

BOMBALA, Monday.—Representatives of mining interests at Mount Deddick (Snowy River) have again pressed the Victorian Premier to consider the difficulties of transport in that locality…

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Lake George Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1899 · page 7

"Colonial Shareholder" writes:--"Through the medium of your columns may I ask the local directors of the Lake George Mines, Limited, that they publish a full and complete statement of the operations at the mine and…

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Drowned in a Mine

Evening News · Monday 9 January 1899 · page 3

PARKES, Monday.—An inquiry was held touching the death of George Kinnear Pringle, who was killed at the Kohinoor Mine. William Payne deposed that he was working with deceased, who…

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Mining Shares

Evening News · Monday 9 January 1899 · page 6

LONDON, January 7.—The following are the latest quotations on the Stock Exchange for Australian mining shares, with a comparison of the week's movements: Great Boulder, 23s…

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