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Mining & the mines, 1900

5,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 83 of 250

Intercolonial Mining News. New South Wales

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

According to an InverelL, wire, dated April 28, very fine samples of argentiferous galena have been obtained at a depth of 50ft in the Shamrock Silver Mine, Pine Ridge, near Boggy Camp. The…

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The Warraderry Gold Field. (By Telegraph from "Nugget.")

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

GOOLAGONG, Tuesday.—The Warraderry Tinpot Gold Fiell is turning out fairly successful. Payable gold has been struck in about nine claims south of the prospectors', but up to the present…

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Coal-weighing Act. Humble v. Humphreys Again. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 11

The case in which Mr. Humphreys was lined £5 and costs, last December, for a breach of the coal weighing provisions came before Mr. Payten to-day at the Lambton…

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Mining Accident at Cobar. One Man Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 9

COBAR, Friday. -- A fatal accident occurred yesterday at the Cobar Goldmines. Fred Critcher and William Rowe, miners, were charging a hole in the lower lovel, and while putting in the last…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued from page 39.) Coke and Matte Freights

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

LITHGOW, Monday.—In connection with the copper mining and refining industry of this district, the Railway Commissioners have revised and amended the schedule of their freight charges…

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"The Violet and Gold." Presentation to Mr. Oxenham. "The Wings of the A.j.c." Mr. Crick Says They Must Be Clipped

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 11

Mr. Humphrey Oxenham won a big race last night, and from a great public field. Being about to leave for England, his friends presented him with an address at Tattersall's Club as an…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 10

KALGOORLIE, Friday. -- The starting of the now air-compressor at the south block of the Oroyo has been postponed till Saturday on account of the heavy rain. Nearly an inch has…

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Our Letter Box. Balmain Colliery Disaster

Truth · Sunday 6 May 1900 · page 2

SIR—I notice that in the issue of your paper of 29th April there are two paragraphs one under the heading of "The Critic," and the other headed "The Balmain…

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Yesterday's Mining News. London, Sydney, and Intercolonical. Mining Advice. Our Letter-box to Correspondents

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 May 1900 · page 9

[Letters marked "Mining" must reach us not later than Thursday. No notice is taken of anonymous correspondence. The coupon printed in the "Free Information" column must be cut out…

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Proposed Increase in the Selling Price of Coal. Newcastle, Saturday Night

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 May 1900 · page 3

It is regarded as pretty certain, at least as far as the chief coliery proprietors are concerned, that there will be an increase in the gelling price of coal, dating with the…

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Coal Mines Regulations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 8

The officials of the Department of Mines have decided to proceed against eight of the principal colliery proprietors in this district for an evasion of the coal weighing provisions of the Coal Mines…

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Newcastle. Miners' Rates for Small Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 3

MASTERS AND MEN DISCUSS THE QUESTION. One of the conditions of the agreement signed on the 12th of February last by the associated colliery proprietors and the members of the…

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Southern Collieries. Bulli

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 5

For the fortnight ending to-day the Bellambi colliery and the Bulli colliery recorded full time. Coal shipping has been brisk. The coke works are as brisk as over, and have several large shipments to…

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Minister for Mines at Hill End. Future of the Mining Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 6

BATHURST, Sunday. -- Yesterday morning the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, Mr. J. L. Fegan, accompanied by Messrs. J. Haynes and W. Hurley, Ms.P., D. M'Lachlan (Under-Secretary…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 9

The following are the latest London quotations for West Australian shares: -- Associated, £5; Boulder Perseverance, £1112; Boulder Main Reef, £113; Great Boulder, £111; Ivanhoe, £132; Kalguril…

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Mining Shares

Evening News · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 5

LONDON, May 5.—Associated Gold Mines, £5 2s 6d; Chillagoe, 28s 9d; Lake View Consols, £12 5s; Mount LyrfJ, £9; North Mount Lyell, £3 12s 6d; Ivanhoe, £13 5s; Great Boulder, 30s 9d; Broken…

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The Coal Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 8

The barque Dunkeld arrived yesterday from Algea Bay to load a cargo of coal for the West Coast. The four-masted barque Tweedsdale arrived from Simon's Bay to load coal for the West Coast,…

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The Price of Coal

Evening News · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 4

THERE seems to be every prospect that within such time as contracts for delivery which have to expire will permit there will be an increase in the selling price of coal at Newcastle, with a…

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Probable Advance in Coal Prices

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 4

Colliery proprietors appear to have, during the past few weeks, given more favorable consideration to the proposal made by the miners that the selling price of coal should be advanced. The…

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Charters FROM 1st May. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 7 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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