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Mining & the mines, 1899

5,864 stories in Sydney's papers · page 85 of 250

Ventilating Coal Cargoes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 10

A case which has just formed the subject of investigation by the Marme Court at Flensburg again serves to call attention to the danger to which coal-carrying boats are exposed by want of…

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Export of Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 10

An unusually busy week has been experienced by the berthing master's department, the cranes on the Carrington Dyke having been kept fully employed since Monday. The clearances of coal…

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The Flower of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 4

The chrysanthemum, flower of autumn, is in the ascendant for the season has been favourable, and the enlarging army of growers make every year a fuller display. The Horticultural Society's…

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Fatal Mining Accidents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 11

A fatal accident occurred in the workings of an alluvial mining claim on the Golden Valley lead, Kalgoorlie (W.A.), on April 12. The roof of a drive fell in, crushing a miner named Hampton…

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Australasian mining Patents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 11

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 April. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 2

Abbey Palmer, bq, Newcastle to Ban Francisco Addenda, 4-m sch, Newcastle to Honolulu Albyn, 4-m bq, Newcastle to West Coast Alex McNeil, bq, Newcastle to San Francisco…

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The Origin of Gold Nuggets

The Australian Star · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 10

Professor A. Liversidge has lately investigated the structure ol gold nuggets, with tho object of attaining information as to the manner in which they were formed. One…

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The West Australian Gold Fields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 11

The gold yield of West Australia for March, according to the Government Statist, amounted to 109,702oz. The crushing of 91,604 tons of ore yielded 106,003oz of the total yield, the…

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Late Mining. Coolgardie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 9

The crushings reported are:—Westralia and East Extension, Bounie Vale, 1490 tons of stone for 652oz., 15dwt, 5gr. gold; Ormuz, Kumanalling, 165 tons for 147oz. 7dwt. 15gr…

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Mining in New South Wales. the Wolumla Field.—an Important Locality. High-grade Gold and Silver Ore and Large Deposits. No. 1. (By Our Special Mining Reporter.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 10

Thore is at present perhaps no mining field on the Southern coast which is attracting so much attention as Wolumla. The continuous yields from some eight or 10 shows have caused it to be noted amongst…

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Mining Laws. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 11

Sir, -- At the deputation to the Minister for Mines held yesterday, the New South Wales Chamber of Mines requested him to convene a conference of mining men of all sorts to consider…

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MINING. Last Year's Mineral Returns

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 947

In addition to the statements regularly prepared of tHe output of gold, the Department of Mines has recently undertaken the quarterly issue of statistics in regard to the output of the…

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Tin Mining on the Barrier

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 11

There, is every prospect of an early revival of tin mining on the Barrier (says a Broken Hill wire). A few months back Mr. E. V. Davies, on behalf of Melbourne capitalists, re-pogged and leased…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 12

A report has reached Singleton to the effect that payable gold has been discovered at a place known as Little Mountain, near Fosterton, situated midday between Gresford and Dungog…

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Newcastle. the Coal Export Trade. a Large Increase. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 9

The quantity of coal exported to foreign and istercolonial ports during the week ended this afternoon totalled 53,944 tons, as compared with 40,262 tons last week—an increase of 13,682 tons. The…

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Conspiracy to Defraud. Western Australian Gold. Companies. London, April 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 9

At the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, yesterday, the trial of four persons on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the public in connection with the West…

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Behind the Bars. "Phiz-gigs" and "Gaol-dogs." the Masonic Signs. Saving a Gaol from Mutiny. the End of the Informer. Whispering Fairy Tales—The Gold Mine at Hillgrove—The Wealthy Vagrant—£800 in His Possession. Dunn, the Lifer. [XII]

The Arrow · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 5

To give some idea of the contempt which prisoners have for Informers, Mr. J. C. Read, the late Governor of Darlinghurst, in evidence…

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Wyalong and Its Goldfield

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 25

WHILE travelling in the district recently I had a good opportunity of observing the deplorable condition of the country through the drought, though I am glad to note that since that time beneficent…

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Our Melbourne Letter. Archbishop Carr in the United States. Brilliant Success of St. Vincent's Hospital Fair. a New Melba. the Redemptorist Monastery at Ballarat Completed. Mining As a Profession—a New Field for Our Boys

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 19

THE Vicar-General (Very Rev. Dean M'Kenna) has received a cablegram from his Grace the Archbishop, who is now in the United States. Dr. Carr continues to enjoy good health…

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Great Boulder Proprietary Gold Mines

Evening News · Monday 24 April 1899 · page 6

LONDON, April 22.—The Great Boulder Proprietary Gold Mines, Limited, Kalgoorlie, W.A., has placed the unissued balance of the shares (150,000) upon the market…

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