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Mining & the mines, 1903

5,734 stories in Sydney's papers · page 83 of 250

Peak-hill Proprietary Gold-mining Company

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 11

The half-yearly meeting of the Peak-hill Proprietary Gold-mining Company was held on the 8th inst.. Dr. R. Bowman presiding. The report stated that the company's operations during the half-year were limited to…

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Revival in Mining. Some Splendid Gold Yields. Gundagai

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 57

The most sensational gold yield known for years was secured last week from 13 tons of stone from Elliott and party's claim, Bark Hut, four tmlles from Gundagai. The stone was treated at…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 11

The Sydney Stock Exchange reopens this morning after its usual Easter vacation. The Broken-hill South Company's plant during the past week treated 2134 tons crude ore and 480 tons…

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 9

Day Dawn Gold Mines crushed 738 tons for 576oz. gold…

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Gold-dredging Return

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 9

Jembaicambone Middle Ground Dredging Company recovered 270z, 6dwt, 12gr. gold for 93 hours' work…

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Mining Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 9

The Sydney Stock Exchange and inter-state ex changes, with the exception of Charters Towers and Gympie, which resumed business yesterday, will reopen for business this morning…

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Mining Notes

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 7

The mine superintendent of the Ballarat of New South Wales reports:--"The north crosscut mentioned in my last is now in 37ft., where I have struck the eastern re[?]'. This…

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Arltunga Gold Field

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 57

The Adelaide "Observer" correspondent at Wlnnecke's Depot wired last week:— Exemptions having expired on some of the claims, they are now being worked. On the Pearl claim a shaft…

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Arltunga Goldfield. License for an Hotel. Reports of Mine Managers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--A large train left Quorn this morning with 40 or 50 prospectors and others for Arltunga. Among the passengers were Mr. W. Thorold Grant (Queensland), who had Mr…

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Lost in a Shale Mine

Evening News · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 6

Mr. M'Millan, one of the managers of the Ruined Castle Shale Mine, near Katoomba, and a miner went into the underground workings to inspect on Thursday evening. They proceeded to…

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Department of Mines. Annual Report

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 899

The report of the Under-Secretary for Mines (Mr. Edward F. Pittman) which has just been presented to the Ministerial head of the department, is this year a more than usually imposing document, for it includes a vast amount…

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A Gold Battery Robbery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 7

A daring robbery was committed last evening at the Duke of Wellington minout Meredith. When Mr. J. Gale, mining manager, went round the works at daylight he found the door of the battery house…

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Lithgow Coal and Iron Trade

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 949

The coal trade last week showed some slight improvements, but this is attributed to the fact that stocks were being laid in for the holidays, as all the collieries were closed down on Thursday night until…

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The Coal Trade. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 949

The steamer Perth cleared at the Customs to-day for Fremantle. via ports, with 800 tons of coal, 20 cases biscuits. and sundries; the steamer Ras Dara, for Java, with 5800 tons of Lambton coal; the steamer Wanaka, for I…

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Mount Lyell Mines. Queenstown (Tas.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 9

At the Mount Lyell mine produotive work uudorground is proceeding at present on only a limited scale, pending probable future arrangements. The North Lyell 400ft, level continues to open up…

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Mining Fatality. Brisbane

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 6

A fatal accident is reported from the Ravenswood goldfield, North Queensland. A truck in an underlie shaft came loose from the brace and fractured the skull of Samuel…

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Submarine Miners. Useful Work at Chowder Bay

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 8

Yesterday the officers and men in the Submarine Miners' camp at Chowder Bay were engaged in work which, though perhaps not as picturesque as that of the previous morning,…

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Colonial History the BUSHRANGINg Era. the Nelson Gold Robbery. Crook Gold Buyers. No. XLI

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 8

Owen Suffolk's version, obtained from some of the actors in the affair, of the sticking up of the Nelson is true in the main. In the disposition of the plunder…

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Newcastle. the Coal Export Trade. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 8

The brigantine La Bella cleared at the Customs to-day with 860 tons of coal for Wellington, via Sydney; the steamer Mareeba, for Melbourne, with 2100 tons; the steamer Barrier, for Melbourne, with 3000 tons; the…

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MINING. Notes from the Fields

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 15 April 1903 · page 949

Sullivan's Gully, the most recent and undoubtedly one of the most valuably gold discoveries in New South Wales (writes our Canowindra correspondent), is situated about six miles south-eaet of Canowindra…

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