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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

5,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 250

Yields. Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 9

Frewin and party, Kimo, 11 tons, 211oz. Mitchell's Creek Freehold Gold Estate (fortnight), 341oz. 16dwt. Mount Drysdale, Cobar, 134 tons (including returns…

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The Coal Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 8

The steamer Federal sailed to-day for Melbourne with 3300 tons of coal, and the steamer Kittawa sailed for Devonport, via Sydney, with 500 tons; the barque Wenowa cleared at the Customs this…

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Charters From 1St March. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 3

America, sh, Newcastle to West Coast Angola, bq, Newcastle to Manila Cimbria, bq, Newcastle to West Coast Cupica. bq, Newcastle to Valparaiso, Pisagua…

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Colliery Disaster. a Hundred Men Entombed. Only Two Rescued

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--A terrible mining disaster is reported from the United States. An explosion occurred at the Redash colliery, in Fayette county, West Virginia, by which 100…

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N.s.w. Gold Yield

Evening News · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 3

The usual monthly return compiled by the Department of Mine shows that the gold produced within the colony during February was 17,340oz…

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N.s.w. Gold Statistics

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 4

The commercial News and Shipping List is indebted to the collector of Customs for the following interesting returns, showing the value of gold (coined and uncoined) imported…

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Rich Stone at Kimo. Nearly 20Oz. of Gold Per Ton

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 March 1900 · page 9

GUNDAGAI, Wednesday.--A crushing of phenomena[?]y rich stone was made at M'Ke[?]na's battery, Jones' Creek, to-day. Kenny, Frew[?], and party obtained a yield of 211oz. from 11 tons of stone from their claim, which…

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The Retreat From Ladysmith. Bridges Blown Up. Collieries Fired. Gold Mines Threatened

Evening News · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 5

LONDON, March 8, 8.40 a.m.—The Boers retiring from Ladysmith and Biggarsberg blew up all the railway bridges as far as Glencoe, fired the Glands Laagte collieries, and threaten to…

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The Cobar Gold Mines, Limited. a Promising Outlook. Cheap Mining in New South Wales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 8

Our London correspondent, under date February 2nd, writes:-- The second ordinary general meeting of the reconstructed Cobar Gold Mines, Ltd., occurred in London…

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Avoca Reefs Gold-mining Company. Second Annual Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 8

The adjourned second annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Avoca Reefs Gold Mining Company was held in the board-room, Union Chambers, Pitt-street, Sydney, yesterday afternoon. Mr. R. A. Goldring…

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Glebe Miners' Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 7

At the last meeting of the Glebe miners' lodge, a letter was received from Mr. James Curley, the secretary of the Colliery Employees' Federation, asking that, in view of the appointment of a…

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Railways Dynamited. a Coal Mine Fired. LONDON, March 8, 8.40 a.m

The Australian Star · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 4

It is reported that the Doers, when retiring from around Ladysmith and Biggarsberg, exploded the whole of the railway bridges as far as Glencoe. They also set fire to the…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 8

There was a fair extent of business in the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday, West Australian shares being chiefly dealt in, and at slightly higher rates. Associated sold form £57 to £518, Boulder Half-mile South at…

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The Coal Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 3

The four-masted barque Clan Buchanan arrived from Sydney to-day to load a cargo of coal from the Hatton Colliery for San Francisco, and the fourmasted schooner Westfield arrived from Adelaide to…

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The Queen Margaret Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 8

The directors in their report to be submittal on Monday next to the shareholders state:--"During the half-year Mr. A. M. Nicholas resigned as manager, and the directors appointed Mr. W. Henderson to the vacancy…

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Fatality at a Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 7

ARMIDALE, Thursday.--A lamentable accident happened at the Sunlight mine, Metz, yesterday, when Alfred Harvey was fatally injured. The deceased, who only recently took up the occupation…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Evening News · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 6

ARMIDALE, Thursday.—An accident occurred at the Sunlight Gold Mine at Metz on Tuesday evening, when a lad named Harvey fell a distance of 20ft, and died on Wednesday from the injuries…

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Charters From 1St March. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 3

America, sh, Newcastle to West Coast Angola, bq, Newcastle to Manila Cimbria, bq, Newcastle to West Coast Cupica, bq, Newcastle to Valparaiso, Pisagua…

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The Selling Price of Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 3

The proposal of Mr. Edden, M.L.A., to move in Pirliament for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire late the coal industry has met with the unanimous and enthusiastic support of the whole…

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Boer Retreat From Ladysmith. Bridges Destroyed and Collieries Fired. London, March 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 5

The Boers in retiring from before Ladysmith across the Biggars Berg destroyed with explosives a11 the railway bridges as far as Glencoo…

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