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Mining & the mines, 1902

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Sensational Mining Accident. a Wonderful Escape

Evening News · Thursday 2 January 1902 · page 2

A telegram from Bendigo says: The most sensational accident of the year occurred at the South Bendigo Mine on Tuesday afternoon, and the providential escape of a miner named Charted…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 7

The Broken-hill Proprietary output for the four weeks ending the 1st inst. is as follows:--Gold, nil; silver, 339,722oz.; soft load, 4213 tons; antimonial lead, 18 tons. For the previous period the return was 59Soz. gold,…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 7

The inter-state stock exchanges having closed till January 6, there is no business to report. ADELAIDE, Thursday. The Minister for Mines states that after the…

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Tarcoola Mines to Be Worked

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 6

The Minister of Mines, Mr. L. O'Loughlin, stales that after the holidays the labor conditions of the leases at Tarcoola are to be strictly enforced. Some of the leases have been already…

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A Queer Gold Dredger

Evening News · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 7

The Sacramento River at Middle Creek, in Shasta County, California, will soon he worked again by a queer dredger seeking the gold supposed to have swept down the creek during fifty…

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A Mining Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 6

The City Coroner conducted an inquest at the Railway Hotel, Miumi, to-day, on the body of a miner named Francis Chalmers, a single man, 46 years of age, who died yesterday from the effects of…

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Mining Notes. Reports and Prospects

The Australian Star · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 3

The Stock Exchange being closed till Monday there to no business to report. A parcel of 25½ tons from, the Tarcoola Associated Mines (S.A.) returned 18oz. 3dwt…

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New Gold Coins. King Edward Sovereigns. Coming Into Circulation Striking The First Coins

The Australian Star · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 7

The first King Edward sovereigns in Australia were struck yesterday at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint, in the presence of a number of press representatives, who…

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South African Gold Mining

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 26

Says an English exchange: Although crushing has been resumed in the Transvaal, it appears very doubtful whether the extraction effected this year will be equal to that of 1900…

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The Gold Mines of New South Wales

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 13

The annual report of the Department of Mines of New South Wales for the year 1900, has just come to hand, on which we have to tender our…

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Miners' Safety Lamps

The World's News · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 25

Many improvements in detail have been made in the safety lamp since Sir Humphrey Davy found that flame would not pass through fine wire gauze. The dim light of the old Davy…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 13

North Mount Farrell sampled the following parcels of ore during the past fortnight: -- 19 tons, containing 58 per cent, lead and 70oz. silver per ton; 9 tons, containing 73 per cent, lead and 75oz. silver per ton…

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Yields. GOLD

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 60

Brilliant St. George United, three weeks' return, 2901 tons for 2866oz. smelted gold, including clean-up from plates; also cyanide bullion valued at £3182. Glenfine South crashed 900 tons fur 422oz. 7dwt.; also…

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"Record Coal-loading."

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 11

Good as was the Christmas Eve performance of the Huddart Parker Proprietary Company, in loading their steamers Moorabool and Burrumbeet with coal at the Dyke at the rate of…

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The Blayney Copper Mine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 26

The half-yearly meeting of the Blayney Copper Mining and Smelting Company was held in Adelaide last week. The chairman intimated that the balance-sheet for the term could not be…

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Victorian Gold Yields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 16

The following yields have been reported since last Issue:— Ballarat: Band and Loch United, 282 tons for 203oz; Last Chance United, 175oz; North W[?]ah…

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The Gold Yield

Evening News · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 3
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The return compiled by the Department of Mines shows that the gold yield of this State for the month of December was 18,094 crude ounces, valued at £51,704, equal to 12,172 fine ounces, as…

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Gold Dredging News

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 26

The actual net profit made by the Junction dredge at Porepunkah (V.), last half-year, was £518, although 131 hours only were worked, through the sinking of the dredge. The work of…

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Mining Mems

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 14

The splendid yield of 584oz. from 230 tons has been obtained by the All Nations Tribute party. Wood's Point. The seventh monthly report of the…

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