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Mining & the mines, 1900

5,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 82 of 250

The Gold Brick Game. Successfully Tried on English Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 11

WHO LOSE £10,000. The English mining speculator is not, as a rule, altogether an artless individual, and yet three of the clan have been clean "bluffed" by a very…

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Hetton Miners

The People and the Collectivist · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 6

The monthly meeting of the above was held at the Albion Hotel Wickham on Thursday April 26. It was decided to…

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Dudley Colliery Appeal Case

Evening News · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Friday Afternoon.—The case of Humble v. Humphreys, which has so frequently been before the public since last year, was resumed at Lambton Police Court to-day, before…

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Coal Exports

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 10

Coal cleared at Newcastle for export to foreign and intercolonial ports, or for use on vessels bound thither, amounted to 58,706 tons for the week ended yesterday. The distribution was as…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 13

The turnover in mining shares on the Stock Exchange yesterday was chiefly in West Australian companies, prices for which were generally considerably weaker, partly owing to the fact that some large quantities of shares…

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The Rand Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 14

LONDON, April 30.—Notwithstanding that it wa&f1 officially denied at Pretoria that it was intended to destroy the Johannesburg mines and machinery, it has transpired that the order to…

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The North Lyell Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 13

QUEENSTOWN (TAS.),Thursday. -- The "Mt. Lyell Standard" contains an interview with Mr. D. J. Mackay, ope of the London directors of the North Mt. Lyell Company, who, with Mr. J. S. M'Arthur (another…

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The Broken Hill Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 55

Block 10 mill only worked 4½ days for a week, and treated 2091 tons of crudes, producing 320 tons of concentrates, bulking 34.26oz silver, 06 per cent, lead, 7.18 per cent. zinc. The productive…

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Queensland Gold Returns

Evening News · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 6

BRISBANE, Friday.—The gold returns for the month of April amounted to 74,944oz, as against 72,125oz for April of last year. Charters Towers produced 30,344oz, Croydon 6013, Gympie 8107,…

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Mining Mems

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 12

Turland's battery, Wyalong, has cleaned up 78 tons from the Perseverance for 4 7oz. There has been a considerable amount of excitement among the mining community at…

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Mining Shares

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 14

LONDON, April 29.—Associated Gold Mines, £5 2s 6d; Chillagoe, 31s 3d; Lake View.Consols, £13 12s 6d; Mount Lyell, £9 5s; North Mount Lyell, £3 12s 6d; Ivanhoe, £13 17s 6d; Great Boulder,…

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The Southern Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 10

BULLI, Friday. -- The steamer Koonya to-day loaded 700 tons of coke for Mount Lyell, Tasmania, at the Bulli jetty. WOLLONGONG, Friday. -- The coal trade of…

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Mining and the Plague. Mining Operations Affected

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 38

No one ever contemplated (remarks the Melbourne "Argus") that one of the effects of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Sydney would be to hamper mining operations in Victoria…

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Australasian Mining Patents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 38

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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Charters FROM 1st May. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 2

Adolphe, bq, Newcastle to West Coast Ancenis, bq, (re-chartered) Newcastle to Ilo Ilo Beacon Rock, sh, Tyne to Port Pirie—Coke Bowman B. Law, bq, Sydney to San Francisco…

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The Coal Trade. NEWCASTLE, April 27

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 1074

The quantity of coal exported to foreign and intercolonial ports during the week ended this afternoon totalled 61,821 tons. The distribution was as follows:—Victoria, 16,410 tons; South Australia, 10,530 tons;…

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New Castle. Coal-weighing Provisions. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 10

At the Lambton Police Court to-day before Mr. (N. Payten, S.M., the recent case of Humble v. Humphreys was again mentioned. Mr. Sparke, of Messrs. Sparke and Millard, appeared for William…

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A Marvellous Centenarian. Mr. William Williams. "Old Gold Dust." Wins £250,000 Worth of Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 9

GUNDAGAI, Friday. -- Mr. William Williams, the well-known mining pioneer, of Adelong, who resides at Adelong Crossing, celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday, when a large number of…

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A Self-made Man. Welsh Coal in Franco

The Australian Star · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 11

John Nixon, the son of a tenant farmer, was born at Barlow, in Durham, in the year of Waterloo. After attending his little village school, he was sent to Dr. Bruce's…

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Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 38

As a result of a month's work at the Homeward Bound Mine, Yalwal, the manager last week banked two cakes of. gold. The battery and cyanide, plants combined treated 1556 tons, and after…

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