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Mining & the mines, 1904

5,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 250

Barrier Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 11

The Proprietary Company despatched for the week closed March 6 to Port Pirle 177 tons oxidised ores and 4018 tons mill products, including 1520 tons desulphurised slimes. The…

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Western [?]Australian Mines. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 11

The Champion Proprietary, Kookynie, cyanided 1008 tons for 105oz, valued at £330. Hannan'a Proprietary tributers treated 490½ tons for 367oz, cyanided 673 tons for 110oz…

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Gold Yield of Australia

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 53

The production of gold in the Commonwealth of Australia, with the exception of a small quantity In South Australia, for the first two months, of the year, may be estimated at…

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Mining at Wyalong

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 53

Operations are being actively carried on at the various lines of reef, and the reefs are improving in quality as the sulphide zone is reached (writes our…

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Mining Around Drake

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 24

Our Drake correspondent writes:—Messrs. Jones Brothers, Pioneer Mine, have just completed their crushing and concentrating plant, which has been running…

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Australasian Mining Patents

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 24

The following complete specifications have lately been accepted in the various States undermentioned, and letters patent will, therefore, issue to the applicants in due course. This…

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Southern Coal Trade. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 8

This week the Corrimal mine will be working full time. Keira and Mount Pleasant are sl[?]ck. Mount Kembla is also working full time. No large steamers are loading at Port Kembla owing to the…

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Opal Mines. Government Sued for £8400

The Australian Star · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 7

he While Cliffs Opal Mines, Limited, were the plaintiffs in a suit which came before the Chief Judge in Equity (Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson) yesterday, George Miller, on behalf…

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Life on the Cayenne Gold Fields

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 24

The following account of mining life in French Guiana is taken from the Demorara "Dally Chronicle:"— "A concession of land from the Government…

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South Coast. the Coal Trade. Unanderra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 13

The only intercolonial boats, in addition to the usual colliers, which loaded at Port Kembia this week were the Brisbane, with a full cargo of coal for Melbourne, and the Karon,…

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MINING. Notes from the Fields

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 704

It is reported that gold has been discovered at Foster’s lease, on the south side of the Lachlan River, near Eugowra, after sinking about 150ft. About a mile of the country has…

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Mining in the State. Cooma

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 11

At the Mining Warden's Court yesterday, before Warden Galbraith, three months' suspension of labour conditions was granted C. H. Williams, agent for the Democrat Gold…

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General Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 53

The Broken Hill Block 10 plant, working 13£ hours last week, dealt with 2795 tons crude suiphides, which produced 453 tons concentrates of high metal grade. Shipments totalled 374 ton£…

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In Equity. (Before Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson, Chief Judge in Equity.) the Whitecliffs Opal Mines. Whitecliffs Opal Mines, Limited, v the Government

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 7

Mr. Adrian Knox and Mr. C. Teece, instructed by Messrs. Allen, Allen, and Hemsley, appeared for the plaintiff, the Whitecliffs Opal Mines, Limited; Mr. A. Gordon,…

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Charters Towers (Q.) Gun Club. Annual Gold Medal Championship Won by Shooter J. W. Henry

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 7

The result of the Annual Cold Medal Championship Shoot, hold under the auspices of the Charters Towers Gun Club, was a great success. Ten of the best…

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Mining in York Peninsula, Queensland. (Specially written for the "Town and Country Journal.")

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 24

Queensland is, perhaps, the most resourceful of our States, and is endowed by nature with a larger variety of gifts than the southern and western States of our large island continent…

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Coal-mining Industry. the Aberdare Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 4

WEST MAITLAND, Wednesday.--The first [?]d in connection with the sinking of the Aberdare colliery shafts, near Cessnock, was turned yesterday by Mr. George Brown and Mr. John…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 9

The market yesterday on the Sydney Exchange continued rather quiet, and the turnover only aggregated moderate proportions. Prices, however, did not undergo much alteration, beyond an almost general relapse…

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West Australian Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 9

KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.--During February the New Standard Exploration (Paddington Consols) filter pressed 2549 tons slimes for 332oz. gold, value £1217. Menzies Consolidated, 1047 tons milled yielded 764oz. Potosi…

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Gold Shipments

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 5

Gold shipments from Melbourne yesterday, by the R.M.S. Orontes amounted to £17,500…

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