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Mining & the mines, 1900

5,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 250

Gold for China

Evening News · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 6

The Japanese mail steamer yawata Maru, Which sailed yesterday, for Japan and China, via ports, carried in her strong room 15 boxes of sovereigns, valued at £16,690, shipped by Chinese…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 9

The Sydney Stock Exchange resumed operations yesterday after the holiday, but the market was generally quiet. Amongst coal mining companies Hetton shares were quoted weaker, whilst Stockton…

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Charters From 1St March. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 3

Cupica, bq, Newcastle to Valparaiso, Pisagua Range Earl Cadogan, bq, Newcastle to Valparaiso Ernerdale, bq, Newcastle to Valparaiso…

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The Hillgrove Mining Field

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 4

Recently a movement has been made in the Hillgrove milling field to discover deposits of sheelite and antimony, which are believed to exist there. A largo amount of prospecting has…

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Large Shipments of Gold to China

The Australian Star · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 2

By the Japanese mailboat Yawata Maru, which sailed yesterday for China and Japan, an extensive shipment of specie was made, 16 boxes of gold that were consigned by Chinese…

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The Timbillica Gold Rush. Pambula

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 3

Yumbulla, improperly known as Timbillica, has 17 miles to the south-west of Towamba All the surrounding country for miles around has for many years been known to be gold-bearing. Wog…

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Eight Hours for Miners. Rejected by the Commons

Evening News · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

LONDON, March 1:—In the House of Commons last night a motion by Mr. J. H. Lewis, M.P. (Liberal) lot the Flint District, Wales, to reduce the day's work of miners to eight hours was…

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Late Mining. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 6

The B.H. Junction plant during the past week treated 1483 tons of crudes, producing 149 tons of concentrates, bulking 24.5oz silver, 58.8 per cent. load, 5.3 per cent zine; also, 31…

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The A.m.a. Conference. Alterations in the Mining Laws

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 6

ZEEHAN (TAS.), Thursday.--The A.M.A. conference resumed its sittings to-day. An announcement was made of the fatal disaster at the M'Evoy's mine, in the Chiltern and Indigo…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 7

KALGOORLIE, Thursday.--Mr. H. C. Callahan, manager of the Lake View Consols, has resigned, and will at once leave the property. Mr. W. J. Collins, formerly of the Broken-hill South, has…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 13
Also in Evening News

The market for West Australian shares in Sydney yesterday was an erratic one. It opened weekly, firmed about 1 p.m., and closed dull. Associated sold from £69 to £66 to £68; Oroya from 599 to 61 to 69;…

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Ventilation of Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 42

The second progress report of the Victorian Mine Ventilation Bonus Board; together with minutes of evidence, has been printed. In October last the powers of the board were extended to…

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Imitation Gold

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 63

An Invention for producing gold-like alloy from copper and antimony, patented in Germany, covers a metalic alloy to take the place of gold, which, even if exposed for some time to the…

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The Broken Hill Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 56

Block 10 plant treated 2802 tons of crude sulphides, producing 476 tons of concentrates, bulking 33.44oz silver, 64.55 per cent, lead, 7.88 per cent. zinc. The concentrates lying on. the mine's…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued from page 26.)_ Australian Gold Yields. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 56

Federal Centrifugal Sluicing Company, Shoalhaven, lOOcz. Mitchell's Creek. Freehold, Wellington (fortnight), 335cz 14dwt…

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Gold Yield of California

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 41

The State of California has produced, from its placer, drift, hydraulic, and quartz mines within the past 60 years (from 1848 to 1898 inclusive) the enormous sum of £273,898,477 in gold. In 1848…

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Australasian Mining Patents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 42

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…

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Mining at Gundagai

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 13

GUNDAGAI, Wednesday. -- On the Howell Company's 60-acre lease extensive and systematic prospecting is being carried on. About 1000 feet south of the main shaft of the Sybil mine…

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