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Mining & the mines, 1902

5,556 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 250

The Coal Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 6

The four-masted barque Fancy Kerr sailed to-day for San Francisco with 3735 tons of Northern Extended coal; the steamer Zealandia also left, bound for Auckland, via Sydney, with 950 tons of…

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Killed in a Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 6

MILLTHORPE, Monday.--A miner named William Power, was killed in his claim at Eddy's Paddock, Forest Reefs, this morning, by a fail of earth…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 9

Business in mining ventures on the Stock Exchange yesterday was on a moderate scale, and prices generally had an easier tendency. Queensland quartz companies were again in demand with a considerable…

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Gold-dredging Returns

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 9

Araluen Central, 62oz. 5dwt. 18gr. for 130 hours' work. Araluen Proprietary, 18oz. for 87 hours. Araluen Valley Consolidated, 38oz. for 105 hours. Macquarie No. 1 G. D. Company, 65oz. of smelted gold…

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The Foreign Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 5

In his last monthly report on the subject of Newcastle's foreign coal trade, issued yesterday, Mr. R. B. Wallace writes that a general decline in freights has taken place during the past four…

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The Southern Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 5

BULLI, Saturday.--The annual delegate meeting of the Illawarra Colliery Employees Association will be held at Bulli on Wednesday next. The district collieries, with the exception of…

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Barrier Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 9

At the South Mine arrangements are proceeding for increasing the size of the ore floors, which under the new conditions became cramped. When completed they will held comfortably 3000 tons, or double the…

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The Mines at Mount Lyell

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 7

QUEENSTOWN (Tas), Monday.--The output of are at the "Big" Mine continues up to the average, nearly 6000 tons being dealt with weekly. The winze, which was sunk from No. 7 level to prove the are body, is…

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Charters From 1st April. COAL

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 3

Bay of Bengal, sh, 1480 tons, Newcastle to West Coast Beechbank, 4-m bq, 2154 tons, Newcastle to West Coast ,…

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New Chillagoe Railway and Mines. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 5

The New Chillagoe Railway and Mines, Limited, report to April 5, as follows:—Boomerang; Open cut, removed 160 trucks of overburden, 114 trucks of ore assaying 3.6 copper. Ruddygor[?];…

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Mining Notes. Reports and Prospects

The Australian Star · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 7

It is found that a larger quantity of overburden than was originally estimated will have to be removed at Mount Garnet Freehold owing to the necessity for giving a greater…

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The Unemployed and Gold. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 7

Sir,--"Old Miner," whoso letter appeared on the 7th, no doubt moans well when he advises the Government to send men to rivers and beaches in search of alluvial gold. I have been…

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The Boer Funds. £2,697,000 From the Mines

Evening News · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 5

LONDON, April 7, 2.35 p.m.—The President of the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines estimates that the Boer Government while holding the mines obtained gold to the value of…

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THE " Gold Brick" Game. American Frauds in England

The Australian Star · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 5

The American Consul in Liverpool (Mr. James Boyle) communicates particulars of a system of fraud now being practised upon people in England by what is believed to be…

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Mining in New South Wales. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 9

Messrs. Sinclair and Wilson brought into town on Saturday 55oz. of gold from their mine at Clear Creek. The gold was crushed from 10 tons of stone, the result of two weeks' work…

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West Australian Goldfields

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 April 1902 · page 7

KALGOORLIE, Monday.--The Kalgurli crushed 2000 tons, for 2005oz. standard gold. The extraction was 92 per cent., and the cost 23s per ton. Lake View Consols: 6214 tons for 6205oz…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 April 1902 · page 10
Also in Evening News

The market was very flat in all departments on the Sydney Exchange yesterday. "I never saw things worse than they are now," was the remark of a lending broker, but possibly that is taking too pessimistic a view of the…

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Export of Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 April 1902 · page 8

The R.M.S. Britannia to-day took £20,144 in bar gold on account of the Union Bank of Australia for Bombay, and £3000 on account of the P. and O. Company for London…

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Kiandra Gold Deposits

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 April 1902 · page 3

The Department of Mines has just issued No. 10 of the Mineral Resources Series, being a report on the Kiandra lead by Mr. E. C. Andrews, Geological Surveyor. The gold…

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