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Mining & the mines, 1900

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 7
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The Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide Stock Exchanges resume business to-day, after the Christmas vacation, and a dull market is feared. A few lines took place in Sydney yesterday, including the following:--South…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 9

Turon River Gold-dredging Company (week), 47oz…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 9

Owing to the Sydney Stock Exchange being closed for the holidays there are no official transactions to report. Yesterday the vestibule of the Sydney Stock…

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Northern Notes. New Colliery Works. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 6

The Co-operative Coal Co. has accepted the tender of Mr. J. Ahearn for the construction of about 5 12 miles of railway to connect with the new mine to be opened up by the…

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The Coal Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 9

The barque Meinwen arrived from Sydney to-day to load a cargo of coal from the Hetton Colliery for Valparaiso; and the schooner Prosper sailed for Honolulu with 1000 tons of East Greta coal; the…

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West Australian Gold Fields

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 6

PERTH, Tuesday.--The Norseman December clean-up is:--Break o' Day, 203 tons for 235½oz.; the Princess Royal battery, 714 tons for 636oz.; cyanide, 420 tons for 197oz. During December the Government battery…

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Coal Famine in England Railway Works Closed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Owing to a coal famine in England, the manufacturers of railway rolling stock are not able to turn out sufficient goods to meet the current demand…

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Coal Famine in England. London, Jan. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 7

A coal famine prevails in England, owing to the insufficiency of railway rolling stock to meet manufacturing1 demands. Several works in Yorkshire are…

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To-day's Mining. Stock Exchange

The Australian Star · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 4

Business was resumed at the Sydney Stock Exchange this morning, after the holidays. There was the usual dullness characteristic of the season noticeable, and little business…

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Late Mining. Western Australian Gold Yield. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 6

The gold yield of the colony for the month of December was 138,620oz., of the estmmted value of £l,826,756. The yield for December fell short of the Nevember yield by 1,247on…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 7

The Sydney Stock Exchange opened yesterday morning after the Christmas vacation. In the forenoon stocks were weak, and dealers disinclined to operate. Later on news came to hand that prices had improved in London,…

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Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 7

R.H. Proprielary Company, 1277oz. Eleanora G. and A. M. Co., Hillgrove, 435 tons, 150oz. 18dwt. Golden Fleece troniters. Wya[?]ong, 20 tons, 104on…

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The Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 6

The gold yield for the past year was 947,626oz., being an increase of 27,578oz on that of the provious year. Reports still continue to be received by the…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 7

The Sydney Stock Exchange resumed business yesterday after the holidays, but operations were on a limited scale. Tbere were no sales of coal-mining shares, prices practically remaining ot the same…

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The Coal Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 6

The ship Star of Bengal sailed to-day for Honolulu with 2528 tons of Wallsend coal; the ship Ellen A. Read sailed for Manila with 1752 tons of West Wallsend [?]al; and the barque Oakbauk sailed for…

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Late Mining. Coolgardie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 4

The Lady Loch clean-up for December was 809oz. [?] 21gr, of gold from 80[?] tons. The tailing[?] assay 4dwt, gold to the ton. The Half-mile Beef a[?] Bardoc cleaned up for December 107oz. 17dwt. 12gr…

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Fire on a Coal-laden Ship. In Newcastle Harbour. A Constable Overcome. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 5

At about 6 o'clock this morning a fire was discovered on the "barque Loch Cree. The vessel was loaded with coal for Valparaiso, and intended to put out to sea: to-day…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 6

KALGOORLIE, Thursday.--Hannan's Oroya output for December was as follows:--Stone treated 2329 tons, for a yield of 786oz. smelted gold. The return from the sulphide ore shipped to the…

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Taxing the Gold Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 14

LONDON, December 31.—The Transvaal Government is imposing a tax upon the output of privately-owned gold mines. It is probable in consequence that work will be suspended in the…

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