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Mining & the mines, 1901

5,235 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 250

The Rand Mines. London, Jan. 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 7

The owners of the Rand mines are paying £30,000 a month to 1200 guards at the mines. The damage done to the mines during the war is estimated at £300,000…

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The Rand Mines. Total Damage £300,000

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Morning.--The Rand mine owners are employing 1200 guards, at a cost of £30,000 per month, to protect the mines…

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Western Australian Mining. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 9

The crosscut west of the 800ft. level at the Boulder Half-mile South has been driven 80f[?]. from the main shaft. Several [?]r[?] fins were passed through, all of low grade. Crosscutting is to be continued to cut…

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The Collie Coal Trouble. Six Hundred Men Out. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 7

The Collie coal-mining trouble continues. A telegram was received yesterday from the Secretary of the Premier's Department to the miming registrar at Collie. The Fromier is of opinion that the best course…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 6

KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.--The most interesting work underground now proceeding at the South Kalgurli is the extension of the western crosscut at the 700ft. level, which is going out…

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The Colliery Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 6

The City Corouer conducted an inquest at the Cross Keys Hotel, Tighe's Hill, this morning on the body of a young man named Thomas Clark, who waa killed yesterday afternoon at Helton Colliary,…

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Strike at Stockton Colliery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 6

The Stockton colliery was thrown idle to-day owing to a dispute between the management and the lads employed in the capacity of drivers. It appears that the strikers, who are in receipt of 4s and 4s 6d per…

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Rich Gold Finds

Evening News · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 8

A telegram from Pitfield (Vic.) states that a beautiful specimen, estimated to contain about lOOoz of gold, was found in the washdirt workings at the Hanlon Consols Mine on Tuesday…

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The Coal Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 6

The steamer Balmoral arrived to-day from Port Natal to replenish her bankers prior to proceeding to Melbourne to lead for South Africa. The steamer Emmastailed to-day for Java with 3600 tons of coal…

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Charters FROM 1st January. Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 2

A B Johnson sch, 460 tons, Newcastle to H'lulu , Alcestis, bq, 398 tons. Newcastle to Kaipara Aldebaran, bq, 466 tons, Newcastle to Auckld Alex Gibson, sh, 2043 tons, Newcastle to San…

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Suffocated in a Mine. Mudgee

The Australian Star · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 4

Yesterday morning Mr. Wallace, the manager, and Albert Davies, a miner, descended the shaft of the Royal George mine at Cullenbone, which has not been worked for some…

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Damaging the Mines. a Commandant Captured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Boers entered Boksburg on January 29th, and damaged the Modderfontein and Van Rhyx mines…

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Foul Air in a Mine. Mudgee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 6

A fatal mining accident took place this morning at the Boyal Goorge mine, Cullenbone, eight miles from here. The manager (Mr. Wallace) and Mr. Albert Davis on goiug to work, and including fo[?]l air in the…

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Western Australian Mining. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 6

Work underground at Brookman's Boulder is still confined to crosscutting west of the 1000ft. level. The latest measurements show about 100ft. driven from the shalt. Leaching of accumulated tailings…

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Broken Hill Mining. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 6

The Junction mid ran slowly last week, treating 1206 tons crudes, which yielded 134 tons concentrates (including 30 tons from tables and buddles), bulking 60 per cent, lead, 19½oz, silver, and 4 per cent…

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Colliery Developments

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 11

It is reported that the Woodford Colliery| Estate at Thornton, 14 miles from Newcastle, and six miles from Maitland, has been sold to some people of means, who Intend re-opening the…

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Drake Copper and Gold Mining Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 11

The stat[?]tory meeting of the Drake Copper and Gold Mining Company, Limited, was held on Thursday at the effice of M'Gregor, Watson, and Co., when four-fifths of the shares were represented. The…

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Sale of a Colliery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 10

The Woodforde Colliery Estate, situated at Thornton, on the Great Northern Railway line, and distant about 14 miles from Newcastle, has been privately sold, and will, it is understood, be thoroughly…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued from page 38.) The Broken Hill Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 58

The plant at Block 10 Mine had an excellent week's run, treating 3537 tons crude ore, yielding 602 tons of concentrates, bulking 33oz silver and 64.35 per cent, lead and zinc. The week's shipments…

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Mine Management, &c

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 40

In the course of a paper on "Mining," read be fore the New South Wales Chamber of Mines recently, Mr. A. J. Bensusan, A.R.S.M., had some thing to say about mine matiagers. The reign,…

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