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Mining & the mines, 1900

5,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 250

Mining at Hillgrove

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 March 1900 · page 9

HILLGROVE, Saturday.--The Daker's Creek battery is running full time and power with abundant water for all purposes. In the mine progress is being made in sinking the winze on Smith's Reef from the 225ft. level. A reef…

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Charters From 1St March. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 12 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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Demand for Coal at the Cape

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 March 1900 · page 4

In consequence of the influx of transports and steamships through the war there is an extraordinary demand for hunker coal at Capetown. The Aberdeen liner Aberdeen, bound from…

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Charters From 1St March. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 3

America, sh, Newcastle to West Coast Anaurus. sh, Newcastle to West Coast Angola, bq, Newcastle to Manila Cimbria, bq, Newcastle to West Coast…

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Late Mining. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 7

The following February relurns are reported:— Paddington Consols crushed 2600 tans of are for 850oz 0dwt. gold; cyanide, 3090 tons of tilings, yielding 047oz. Total yield, 1497cz. 9dwt…

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Newcatle. the Coal Industry. Newcatle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 10

The quantity of coal shipped at the Govornment hydranlic cranes at the Dyke for interual, intercolonial and forcign consmnption during the week ended to-day was 45,427 tons, as compared with…

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Newcastle Coal Trade. Agitation For. Increased Rates

Evening News · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Strong and determined expressions of opinion are heard among the miners throughout the district on the necessity for an immediate…

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Law. Monday, March 12. Alleged Breach of Promise Action Against a Wyalong Mine-owner. Howell V. Neeld

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 8

A young woman named Rebecca Howell was the plaintiff in No. 2 Court, before Mr. Justice Stephen and jury, in an notion for breach of promise of marriage, the defendant being a young man named Harry Neeld, mine proprietor,…

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Mining in New South Wales. a Trip to Gilgunnia, Mount Allen, Dromedary, and Mount Hope. in Immense Belt of Metalliferous Country. (By Our Special Mining Reporter.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 10

Gilgunnia field is the one point in the who of the country from Cobar to Mount Hope where gold has been mined ior princpally, though, as I said in my previous article, copper ans silver ore has ben…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 7

KALGOORLIE, Monday.--Hannan's Brownhill output for February was: Stone treated, 5440 tons, yielding 7050oz. 10dwt. 19gr. smelted gold. The output of the Kalgoorlie Mining…

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Mining

Evening News · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 2
Also in The Daily Telegraph

TAMWORTH, Friday.—Two applications for gold mining leases have been lodged with the warden's clerk by Mr. R. S. Roche, Sydney, who proposes to work two blocks of land totalling…

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The Coal Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 8

The ship Mount Stewart sailed for Iquique to-day with 2888 tons of Hetton coal: and the barque Gwrtheyrn Castle sailed for Tal Tal with 1166 tons of Wallsend coal. The four-masted barque…

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The Yambulla Mines. Eden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 9

The Yambulla mines are still attracting miners from a distance. Upwards of 100 persons are on the field, and over 100 acres of land have been leased for gold-mining purposes, and an extensive tract of…

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Charters From 1St March. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 3

America, sh, Newcastle to West Coast Anaurus, sh, Newcastle to West Coast Angola, bq, Newcastle to Manila Cambusdoon, bq, Newcastle to West Coast…

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Late Mining. Coolgardie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 8

The Lady Loch mine during February treated 620 tons of are for 364oz. gold. The tailings assayed 4dwt.12gr.per ton. The small yield is due to the delay through the breaking down of the pump The…

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Gold Dredging at Araluen. Araluen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 9

Mr. Tulloch is so well satisfied with the returns from his-dredge that he intends building another [?] an adjoining lease. Mr. Perry's dredge is in full work, the owner being satisfied. The Araluen…

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Early Closing the Wood and Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 6

A large meeting of members of the recently formed Wood and Coal Trade Union was held last night in the Temperance-hall for the purpose of supporting tho early closing movement. On…

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Working the Mines. and Preparing for Their Destruction

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 8

LORENZO MARQUES, January 18.--Reliable advices from Johannesburg show that people are deluded who suppose that the Government is not making substantial profits out of the mines. On…

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The Early Closing Act. Meeting of the Wood and Coal Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 5

A largely attended meeting of those connected with the wood and coal trade of the city and suburbs was held last evening in the Temperance Hall, Pittstreet, to take steps to have the Early Closing Bill…

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