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Mining & the mines, 1900

5,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 76 of 250

Southern Coal Trade

Evening News · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 6

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—Allowing for the holiday on Easter Monday, the majority of the southern collieries worked full time last week, making their times for the ending fortnightly pay…

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Qualifications of Mine Managers

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 6

The Chamber of Mines recently brought under notice of the Government the fact that mining managers in Victoria were practically uncertificated. In consequence this they alleged that…

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A Coal Dispute Settled

Evening News · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Thursday. —Mr. D. Watkins, M.L.A: for Wallsend, who has just returned from Victoria, after successfully effecting a settlement of the Coal Creek Colliery dispute, states that he…

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The Coal Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 8

The steamer Changsha arrived to-day from Adelaide to load a cargo of coal from various collieries for Manila and Hongkong, and the barque Louisiana sailed to-day for Honolulu with 2120 tons of Gr[?]ta…

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Charters FROM 1st April. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 3

Aigburth, sh, Newcastle to West Coast Antarctic, bq, Newcastle to West Coast— Coal; thence to U.K. or Continent Australia, sh, Newcastle to West Coast—…

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Newcastle. the Coal-weighing Difficulty

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 6

A special meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the Trades-hall, Newcastle, yesterday, for the purpose of considering matters in connection with…

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Late Mining. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 8

B. H. Block 10 mill, working 4½ days last week, treated 2091 tons of crudes, producing 320 tons of concentrates, bulking 34[?]26oz. silver, 65 per cent, lead, 7[?]18 per cent, zinc. The estimated quantity of…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 5

KALGOORLIE,, Wednesday.--Mr. Angove, one of the gentlemen who was commissioned to report on the Associated mine, is leaving Kalgoorlie on Friday for England…

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Breach of Coal Mines Regulation Act

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 6

GRETA, Thursday.--At the Greta Police Court yesterday, before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., and Dr. Walker, J.P., M. C. Cowllshaw, owner, and Joshua Jeffries, manager, of the Greta Colliery,…

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Fatality at Mount Kembla Colliery

Evening News · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 6

WOLLONGONG, Thursday Afternoon. — An accident occurred at Mount Kembia Colliery at noon to-day, when a youth named James Benjamin, a…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 9
Also in Evening News

The sharemarket in Sydney yesterday was erratic. West Australian shares opened firmly in some cares, such as Oraya and Queen Margaret, but were weaker in others, notably Associated and Perseverance. The full rise in…

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Trouble at Hetton Colliery. Newcastle

The Australian Star · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 5

Certain minors employed at the Helton colliery stale that two men have been put in a bolter place than they are entitled to. In consequence the lodge asks the manager to…

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Sale of a Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 9

INVERELL, Thursday.--The most important event in local mining matters for some time was the sale of the King Conrad silver-lead mine. Bora Creek, formerly known as Allwell's, which took place yesterday. The…

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The Blayney Copper Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 9

The active operations now being carried on at the Blayney copper mine present an imposing scene. There are six reverberatory furnaces now at work refilling matte. The last two furnaces, which commenced…

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Fatal Accident. Mount Kembla Colliery. WOLLONGONG

The Australian Star · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 6

A sad accident occurred this morning at the Mount Kembla Colliery. A young man named James Benjamin, who was engaged with the appliances which are used at this colliery for…

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The Coal Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 6

The barque Woolla[?]ra arrived from Sydney to-day ti load a cargo of coal from the Duckenfield Colliery for Honolulu, and the steamer Australian arrived from Sydney to load coal for Manila and Hongkong…

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Fatal Accident at Mount Kebla Colliery. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 3

An accident occurred at the Mount Kembla Colliery this afternoon, by which a surface hand named James Benjamin, aged 20, was killed, owing to being crushed between the revolving tippler of the coal…

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Scottish Australian Mining Company

Evening News · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, April 26.—The report of the Scottish Australian Mining Company shows a profit of £6256. A dividend of 3 per cent, is declared, and £2506 is carried forward to next account…

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Scottish Australian Mining Co

The Australian Star · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 3

The report of the Scottish Australian Mining Co. shows a profit of £6256. A dividend of 3 per cent is declared, and £2500 [?]s carried' forward…

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