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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 9

Burnt Creek G.M. Company (Dunolly), 125oz. for the week. North Lons Tunnel G.M. Company, 284 tons for 150oz. Star of the East (Ballarat), 2230 tons for bar gold…

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March Gold Returns

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 4

The gold returns for March show that, the amount produced during the month was 20,851oz, crude, equal to 17,701oz. fine, valued at £75,190, as compared with 22,762oz. crude, equal to…

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Mining Notes

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 3

The mine manager of the Democrat Gold Mine, Cowra Creek, writes that in sinking winze at the north tunnel he has struck a richer make of stone about 75ft. below…

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Gold Dredging Returns

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 9

Aralurn Central, 30oz. 17dwt. for 130 hours' work. Araluen Valley Consolidated No. l9ozz. for 91 hours. Araluen Valley Consolidated No. 2, 38oz. for 104 horns. Turon No. 2, 22oz. for 120 hours…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 9

The week opened quietly on the Mining market yestorday, with an easier tendency in the majority of stocks. In Barrier silver shares Broken Hill Proprietary were is weaker at 33s; Block 10 sold at…

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The Coal Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 6

The steamer Wangape cleared at the Customs today for Wellington with 3700 tons of coal, 735 bags of coke, 386 felloes, and a large quantity of timber; the Tsinan for Hongkong, via Sydney and ports,…

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Gold Won From the Earth

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 6

The gold raining returns for the month of March show that there has been a very substantial increase in production over that of the last your, the total yields being 74,493oz., and…

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Late Mining. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 6

Sales and quotations on the Exchange to-day were:—Broken Hill, 33s 6d, b 33s 6d, s 33s 9d; British (old), 10s 3d, b 9s 9d, s 10s 1[?]d; Block n10, 32s 6d, b 31s 6d, s 32s 6d; Junction, 4s 5d, 4s 4d, 4s…

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Mining at Yass. New Discoveries

Evening News · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 5

YASS, Tuesday.—Late last night Messrs. Parker and F. Bolton, of Sydney and Melbourne, and Mr. Grayson, of Broken Hill and Kalgoorlie, purchased four working claims and other blocks of…

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Mining at Yass. Yass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 9

Mr. Francis Bolton, mining investor, of Molbourue and Sydney, accompanied by Mr. Lawrence W. Grayson, M.E., passed through to-day after having secured 80 acres at Kaugaira, including 20 acres of…

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Sydney Day by Day. Gold That Glitters

The Australian Star · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 3

The Department of Mines has issued n return which shows that the gold produced lit New South Wales during March was 29.851oz. crude, equal to 17,011oz…

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Zeehan Monthly Mining Returns. Zeehan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 5

The output of are for March totals 3314·65 tons, of the net value of £16,515, made up of galena (exported via Strahan), 265·50 tons, and 3·15 tons tin, 250 tons gossan by the Hercules mine, and…

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Western Australian Mines. Development at the Great Boulder, Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 9

The diamond drill stationed at the 600ft. level of Janson's shaft, at the extreme north end of the Great Boulder Proprietary, has intersected the northerly extension of the Ivanhoe east lode at a point 280ft…

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Arltunga Goldfield. Government Geologist's Report. Winnecke's Reward Claim. Quartz Contains Very Little Gold. Possibilaties of Alluvial. Discovery an Important One. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 5

The Premier has received the following report on the Arltunga goldfield from Mr Brown, the Government Geologist:—"I have inspected tho gold claims at Winnecke's Depot…

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Mining in New South Wales. Moruya

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 9

Twenty—four tons of stone from Tomlin, Fraser, and Smitn's claim at Quart Pot, near Nerrigundah, returned 72oz. of gold The syndicate which recently bought the Bumbe…

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The Abltunga Goldfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 4

Great interest will naturally be felt in the report on the Arltunga goldfield which Mr. H. Y. L. Brown, the Government Geologist of South Australia, has…

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Winnecke's Goldfield. Further Report of the Government Geologist. the Field Described

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 April 1903 · page 6

ADELAIDE, Monday.--At the Junction outcrop the quartz is 6ft. thick, and shows gold in cellular quartz and gossan, and gives good prospects on dollying. There is an excavation to…

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Gold Mining in Egypt

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 8 April 1903 · page 25

Hundreds of European and American tourists, in pursuit of health or pleasure, now travel on the Nile, between Cairo and Assouan, every year, and since the destruction of the Dervish power…

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The Lithgow Valley and Hermitage Collieries

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 8 April 1903 · page 888

In a descriptive article last week in the "Sydney Mail" it was stated that the seams of the above collieries ranged from 5ft to 5ft. 6in. The fact is that the seams of this company's properties are quite…

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 April 1903 · page 9

Last Chance United, 105oz,5dwt. Now Normanby, crushed 012 tons for 186oz, 12½dwt. North Woah Hawp. 383 tons for 176oz., 13dwt.; specimens yielded 275oz, 15dwt.; total, 452oz. 8dwt…

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