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Mining & the mines, 1904

5,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250

The Country. Western Coal and Metal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 9

LITHGOW, Friday.--Mr. Wilton states that there is nothing fresh to report in connection with local trade, which is going along as usual during the past month or so. The mines, Mr…

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Mining in the State. Moruya

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 13

Mr. W. H. Rossitter, representing the Dapto Smelting and Refining Company, has arranged with Mr. F. Guy for the supply of an unlimited quantity of Moruya silver ore. The…

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Teralba Strike. The Miners' Decision. Not to Resume Work. Newcastle

The Australian Star · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 8

The Northern Extended miners decided by ballot this afternoon by 97 votes to 11 not to resume work under the Arbitration Court's award…

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Buried Alive. Man Swallowed Up by Hidden Mine. Chasm in Street

The World's News · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 21

Death in its strangest and most appalling form has come at Hanley (Eng.) to a man named Thomas Holland. About an hour before dawn on Saturday, December 12, as he was going to his…

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Rand Mines. Employment of Chinese. Justified by the Transvaal. London

The Australian Star · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 6

The Transvaal Government has replied to Mr. Deakin, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, and to Mr. Seddon, the New Zealand Premier, regarding their protest against the…

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Pay Friday at the Mines. an Unpleasant Surprise. the Northern Extended Ballot

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 11

In accordance with the resolution arrived at on Wednesday a bullit was taken this morning among the Northern Extended miners as to whether work should be resumed under the award of the…

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Rand Labour Problem. Lord Milner's Decision. Mines Must Be Developed. London, Jan. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 11

Lord Milner assured a deputation of farmers at Krugersdorp that he 'would require strong evidence that the importation of labour was opposed to the real…

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Oil As a Fuel. Will Not Supersede Coal. Interview with Dr. Goding

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 13

Dr. F. W. Goding, United States Consul at Newcastle, returned from a six months' visit to America by the steamer Sierra yesterday. Dr. Goding said to a representative of this…

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Ballot of the Northern Extended Miners. Large Majority for No Work. Has the Strain Shattered the Act [?] NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 11

Mr. Cruickshank, one of the members of the Arbitration Court, spoke on Tuesday last with wellintentioned meaning, but with a blissful ignorance of the disposition of the miners, whebn he said he was…

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Mining News to Correspondents

Sunday Times · Sunday 24 January 1904 · page 3

(Letters marked "Mining" must reach us not later than WEDNESDAY. No notice is taken of anonymous correspondence. The coupon printed in the "Free Information" column must be cut…

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Sensational Murder Case—a Search for Gold and Diamonds

Sunday Times · Sunday 24 January 1904 · page 8

At Johannesburg, Phillippus Swartz, charged with murdering Vanniekerk while searching for gold and diamonds hidden in the veldt of the Northern Transvaal, was found guilty, and…

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Tasmania Gold-mining Company. Launceston

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 9

An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Tasmania Gold-mining Company was held to-night, when a resolution was carried providing for the voluntary…

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Russian Gold

The Australian Star · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 4

London bankers assert that Russia for months past has been recalling her gold reserves abroad, and that the Russian Bank now holds £92,000,000…

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 9

Band of Hope crushed 465 tons for 429oz gold. Oriental Surprise crushed 67 tons for [?]2oz [?]dwt! 18gr smelted gold. Queen Cross Reef crushed 1097 tons for. 3948oz gold…

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The Coal Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 8

The coal shipped beyond the State during the week eroad yesterday amounted to 62,587 tons, of which 27,717 tons were sent to interstate and New Zealand ports and 34,870 tons to foreign ports, the distribution…

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Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 9

The half-yearly report of the directors of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company has been issued to shareholders. It states that the volume of trade considerably decreased…

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Barrier Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 9

The British Company's plant, working 11[?] shifts, last week treated 2227 tons of crude sulphides, which returned 279 tons of first and 119 tons of second concentrates, all of good…

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N.s.w. Coal for China

Evening News · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 5

The Minister for Mines and Agriculture has received a communication from the Government Commercial Agent in the East, on the subject of New South Waes coal. Mr. Suttor…

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The Wallaroo Mine Fire. Inspection of the Workings

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Vigorous efforts are still being made to light the fire at the Wallaroo, mines. A suction fan has been doing good work in pumping up the gases. A party of men were…

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Mining the Hill End Field

Evening News · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 7

"G. C. J." complains of a few errors in his letter of the 21st instant. He says:—"I do not so much complain of your shearing my letter here and there, as to the elimination of one…

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